Korman v. Strick

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• distinguishing criminal and civil contempt; criminal contempt sanctions \solely\ punitive while civil contempt sanctions coercive
• distinguishing criminal and civil contempt; criminal contempt sanctions “solely” punitive while civil contempt sanctions coercive
• “If the means of the coercion [to comply with a court order] ... cannot be removed by compliance with the court’s order, the coercive effect of a civil contempt finding will be weakened.”
• “If the means of the coercion 28 [to comply with a court order] . . . cannot be removed by compliance with the court’s order, the coercive effect of a civil contempt finding will be weakened.”
• identifying detention and fines as mechanisms of civil contempt
• describing imprisonment as a sanction for civil contempt

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).