JOSHUA ISAAC MARTINEZ v. STATE OF FLORIDA

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• recognizing that, in the discovery context, coercive contempt is unenforceable when compliance with underlying order becomes “impossible” or “futile”
• holding that “imposition and selection of particular sanctions [either coercive or compensatory] are matters left to the sound discretion of the trial court”
• holding the court's imposition of sanctions must be consistent with due process requirements.
• finding insufficient evidence for criminal contempt but ordering reasonable attorneys fees for violation of protective order under federal rule 37
• reasoning that “the district court’s order of contempt simply 13 [could not] be sustained as a coercive civil contempt order,” where “it was impossible 14 for [the contemnor] to purge itself of contempt by returning documents which were in 15 the sole possession of its counsel”
• penalty ordered paid to court but motion for refund would be entertained if compliance obtained within ninety days of order

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