Gunther v. Bolus

How courts have described this case

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• “[i]n the most basic terms, if the dominant purpose [of the sanction] is to coerce the contemnor to comply with a court order, it is civil [contempt]; if the dominant purpose is to punish the contemnor for a past violation, it is criminal”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).