Law v. National Collegiate Athletic Ass'n

How courts have described this case

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

• explaining that courts may employ sanctions in the civil contempt context “for either or both of two purposes: to coerce the [party charged with contempt] into compliance with the court’s order, and to compensate the [other party] for losses sustained” (citation omitted)
• finding a sanction that included a twenty-five percent surcharge above plaintiffs’ actual costs to be a criminal contempt sanction because it was neither compensatory nor avoidable by complying with the court’s order
• “When the primary purpose of a contempt motion is to seek compliance with a court order, the proceeding is remedial in nature and is, therefore, a civil contempt.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).