G. & C. Merriam Co. v. Webster Dictionary Company, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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• holding ex-officer bound as a privy because of his control over the litigation and the adequate representation of his interests in the prior litigation
• finding that an injunction was “not reviewable in contempt proceedings” even when the contemnor “failed effectively to exercise its right of appeal”
• “Advertisements designed, written, and placed by [the legally identified person] precipitated the injunction.”
• “a nonparty, if not legally identified with a party, can be found to be in contempt only if in active concert or participation with a party in postinjunction activity”
• while court has little or no discretion with respect to amount of fine for compensating actual damages, the awarding and amount of appropriate fees is within court’s discretion
• “Ordinarily the validity and terms of an injunction are not reviewable in contempt proceedings.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).