Subject: Re: contempt deadline
It's not still in force - but that doesn't mean that it wasn't wrong to ignore while it was in force.

Hmm. So judges can now just...rule on whatever they want, whenever they want? That how it works?

If you've been wrongly convicted of a crime, you're not allowed to break out of prison. Even if you're sure that you'll prevail on appeal. And if you break out of prison and your original conviction is overturned (a court found that the conviction was "bogus"), you can and should still face criminal penalties for having broken out of prison. Because breaking out of prison is independently a bad act - even if a mistake was made, it is still wrongful for someone to violate the law.

Except this scenario is the reverse of the above. The judge is saying, 'Yeah, my TRO was bad but you should have followed it anyway'. This is a ticking bomb.

Why doesn't it work that way? An injunction applies to the party being enjoined no matter where that party happens to be.

Only if the judge has jurisdiction in the matter, which this guy...does not.