In Re E.I. Dupont De Nemours & Company

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• holding that the district court committed reversible error by imposing criminal sanctions in a civil proceeding, which “did not afford [the contemnor] the procedural protections the Constitution requires for the imposition of criminal contempt sanctions”
• “ ‘[A] district court may not, even unwittingly, employ a civil contempt proceeding to impose what, in law, amounts to a criminal contempt sanction.’ ”
• “[T]he sanctions imposed by the district court were neither compensatory nor coercive in nature, but instead were designed to punish [the contemnor] for flouting the authority of the district court”

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