Jenkins v. Dennison

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• recognizing that “the purging of the contempt ordinarily renders the controversy moot”
• recognizing that “the purging of the contempt ordinarily renders the controversy moot”
• holding that “[d]istrict courts have broad equitable power to order appropriate relief in civil contempt proceedings” (citing McComb v. 23 Jacksonville Paper Co., 336 U.S. 187, 193 (1949)). 22 United States v. United Mine Workers of America, 330 U.S. 258, 304 (1947
• observing that ownership is a prerequisite to alter ego liability, and consequently rejecting the argument that that an individual need not own any part of a corporation for an alter ego relationship to exist
• approving an asset freeze to secure payment of a contempt sanction as within the court’s equitable powers
• upholding the district court’s exercise of jurisdiction over a corporation nominally owned by the defen- dant’s mother and into which the defendant had channeled proceeds of his securities law violations

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