Meyers v. Petrie

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• this Court reviewed a penalty of 181 days’ incarceration for contempt under the abuse of discretion standard
• “When a court seeks to coerce or compel a course of action, the appropriate sanction is civil contempt. However, when a court seeks to punish conduct that has already occurred or to vindicate its authority, the appropriate sanction is criminal contempt.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).