Labor Relations Commission v. Fall River Educators Ass'n

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• refusal to testify on matters peculiarly within knowledge of witness warrants adverse inference, even if party with control of witness did not have burden of proof
• a fine imposed for each day’s continued contempt is appropriate in a civil proceeding despite the fine’s punitive quality because the fine’s primary objective was to compel compliance with a court’s order
• “Unlike a criminal contempt which is punitive, to vindicate the authority of the court, a civil contempt order is intended to be remedial and for the benefit of an aggrieved party.”
• judge may impose fines for each day of continued contempt of court's order
• conditional, coercive orders considered civil contempt
• applying inference despite burden of proof

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).