Goya Foods, Inc. v. Wallack Management Co.

How courts have described this case

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

• stating that a civil-contempt hearing is a “waste of time” where there is “no genuine issue of material fact”
• acknowledging that nonparties “‘in active concert or participation with the party specifically enjoined’” “may be liable for civil contempt”
• holding when “federal district court sits in diversity jurisdiction, its inherent power to impose monetary sanctions for contumacious conduct during the course of litigation is not circumscribed by the forum state’s law regarding the imposition of sanctions.”
• observing that, to subject a nonparty who “aids or abets an enjoined party in transgressing a court order,” it is “essential” that “the challenged action must be taken for the benefit of, or to assist, a party subject to the decree”
• nonparty \in active concert or participation with the party specifically enjoined\ may \be liable for civil contempt notwithstanding their nonparty status\ (citation omitted)
• “The law is firmly established in this circuit that good faith is not a defense to civil contempt.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).