the absence of an “objective indication” from the legislature, the determinant of whether a particular contempt charge is sufficiently serious to require a jury trial is the severity of the fine actually imposed upon the eontemnor. See Frank, 395 U.S. at 151, 89 S.Ct. 1503. The United States Supreme Court “has not specified what magnitude of contempt fine may constitute a serious criminal sanction” for purposes of the Sixth Amendment, but it has held that contempt fines of $5,000 for individuals, and $10,000 for non-individuals such as corporations, are presumptively “petty” and do not require a jury trial. See Int’l Union, UMW of Am. v. Bagwell, 512 U.S. 821, 837 n. 5, 114 S.Ct. 2552, 129 L.Ed.2d 642 (1994). Shell argues that the hearing master’s recommendation of a 6 (11th Cir.1996) (<HOLDING>). While we take no position on whether the
holding the due process clause of the fourteenth amendment extends the right to jury trial to defendants in serious criminal cases in state courts holding that 10000 fine imposed on a labor union does not trigger assumed jury trial right holding that fine of 10000 was not sufficiently serious to trigger the defendants jury trial right holding that 25000 fine did not trigger defendants constitutional right to a jury trial recognizing the right to waive a jury trial