Section 13A. Any person who shall wilfully disobey any lawful process, order, judgment or command of the court in any action in which injunctive relief is sought in any matter involving or growing out of a labor dispute, as defined in section twenty C of chapter one hundred and forty-nine, by doing any act or thing in or by such process, order, judgment or command forbidden to be done by him, if the act or thing so done by him is of such character as to constitute also a criminal offense under the laws of the commonwealth shall enjoy the right to a speedy and public trial for his said contempt by an impartial jury of the county wherein it shall have been committed; provided, that this right shall not apply to contempts committed in the presence of the court or so near thereto as to interfere directly with the administration of justice or apply to the misbehavior, misconduct or disobedience of any officer of the court in respect to the orders or process of the court.
Structure Massachusetts General Laws
Part III - Courts, Judicial Officers and Proceedings in Civil Cases
Title I - Courts and Judicial Officers
Chapter 220 - Courts and Naturalization
Section 1 - Flags; Display in Courts
Section 3 - Conservators of Peace; Powers of Justices
Section 4 - First Day of Sitting; Designation
Section 5 - Change of Time and Place of Court; Notice
Section 6 - Business Days; Exceptions
Section 8 - Purchase of Claims by Attorney and Court Officers, etc., Prohibited; Penalty
Section 10 - Judge, etc.; Interest of Town in Suit or Proceeding
Section 11 - United States Judicial Officer; Ineligibility for Certain Offices
Section 12 - Referee in Bankruptcy; Ineligibility for Certain Offices
Section 13 - Exclusion of Minors as Spectators From Court Room
Section 13a - Contempt Cases; Rights of Defendant
Section 13b - Contempt Cases; Demand for Retirement of Justice Sitting
Section 14 - Commitment for Contempt; Service of Process
Section 14a - Time Within Which Certain Decisions to Be Rendered