Keuper v. Beechen, Dill & Sperling Builders, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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• explaining that civil contempt is “not a private remedy” and because civil contempt sanctions are “strictly coercive, the court is without the authority to compensate an aggrieved party for its damages”
• reversing the trial court’s award of compensatory damages which stemmed from a civil contempt proceeding
• “[i]n Illinois, it is well established that civil contempt is an affront to the authority of the court and not a private remedy,” and “any fine imposed pursuant to the contempt is payable to the public treasury and not a plaintiff”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).