Nakagawa v. Colorado

How courts have described this case

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• noting courts should look to statutory guidance and then case law when considering contempt
• “The purpose of a criminal contempt proceeding is punitive, and the purpose of a civil contempt proceeding is coercive.”
• “The power, in particular, to punish disobedience to judicial orders is regarded as essential to ensuring that the Judiciary has a means to vindicate its own authority.”
• “The purpose of a criminal contempt proceeding is punitive, and the purpose of a civil contempt proceeding is coercive.”
• “[A] civil contempt is one which operates mainly to deprive another party to a suit of some right, benefit, or remedy to which he is entitled under an order of the court.”
• describing letters intercepted by child's mother as \attempted communications\

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).