Mechling v. Potter

How courts have described this case

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• determining that, to achieve the “court’s goal” of “fashion[ing] a remedy that will coerce the contemnor into compliance,” the “court’s equitable powers include the ability to appoint a receiver to enforce compliance with the law”
• “Courts have wide discretion in fashioning remedial sanctions for civil contempt.” (internal quotation marks and alterations omitted)
• receiver appointed under broad authority of section 7402(a) to oversee company's finances, prevent company from pyramiding employment taxes, and ensuring that company timely filed tax returns
• “Along with the ability to impose coercive and compensatory fines, a federal court’s equitable powers include the ability to appoint a receiver to enforce compliance with the law.”
• appointing a limited receiver to ensure compliance with court injunction

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).