[rhizome]

I'm guessing it involves appealing (or similar) the court order that the contempt finding depends on.

[alttag]

Yes. Lavabit's filing [0] is to the Fourth District Court of Appeals. Page 1 of their brief (after all of the disclosures and tables of content) explains the jurisdictional stuff pretty well.

0: [pdf] http://cdn.arstechnica.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/gov.us...