Mohler v. U. S. Board of Parole

How courts have described this case

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

• “ ‘in selecting contempt sanctions, a court is obliged to use the “least possible power adequate to the end proposed” ’ [citation]”
• “Even if the Excessive Fines Clause should be determined to apply to punitive damages, it does not apply to civil contempt sanctions imposed to obtain compliance with court orders.”
• subsequent history omitted as irrelevant

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).