Dixon v. Barry

How courts have described this case

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

• noting that “it is abundantly clear that a court may appoint a receiver to force public officials to comply with court orders.”
• “The most significant factor in the propriety of appointing a receiver is whether any other remedy is likely to be successful.”
• “where the local authority's failure to comply with court orders provides no factual basis for respecting the local authority, the court need not withhold use of its equitable powers based on the theoretical principles of federalism and comity” (citations omitted)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).