Morris Simkin v. United States

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• In determining whether a civil contempt sanction has lost its coercive effect, a district judge has virtually unreviewable discretion.
• civil contempt order that has lost any coercive potential becomes punitive and must be vacated
• “fear may warrant lenient sentence of criminal contempt”
• “As long as the judge is satisfied that the coercive sanction might yet produce its intended result, the confinement may continue. But if the judge is persuaded ... that the contempt power has ceased to have a coercive effect, the civil contempt remedy should be ended.”

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