Bagwell v. International Union, UMWA

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• holding that adopting such an argument would allow those in contempt of court to completely avoid the sanction by postponing compliance until the settlement of the underlying litigation
• explaining that -8- “‘[c]ompensatory, civil contempt sanctions compensate a plaintiff for losses sustained because a defendant disobeyed a court’s order”
• a $100,000 fine for each violent violation of injunction and $20,000 for each nonviolent violation was allowable in a civil proceeding because the fine could be avoided by compliance with the injunction
• “Courts of the Commonwealth must have the authority to enforce their orders by employing coercive, civil sanctions if the dignity of the law and public respect for the judiciary are to be maintained.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).