Federal Trade Commission v. Randall L. Leshin

How courts have described this case

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• observing that district courts have “extremely broad and flexible powers” in the civil contempt area
• noting that inability to pay can be a defense to a coercive contempt sanction
• discussing the distinctions be-tween coercive civil contempt sanctions and compensatory civil contempt sanc-tions
• “It is by now well-settled law that due process is satis-fied when a civil contempt defendant re-ceives notice and an opportunity to be heard_”
• “The most common combination of equitable and legal remedies, for instance, is a district court’s grant of both an injunction that prevents future harm along with an award of damages that compensates for past harm.”
• “The most common combination of equitable and legal remedies, for instance, is a district court’s grant of both an injunction that prevents future harm along with an award of damages that compensates for past harm.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).