· 4/13/1970
Opal L. Taylor and Mary A. Taylor v. Robert H. Finch, Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare
Citations
- 423 F.2d 1277
- 1970 U.S. App. LEXIS 9827
How courts have described this case
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- observing that a court imposing a contempt sanction “must exercise the least possible power adequate to the end proposed” (internal quotation marks omitted)
- “Courts have power to adjudge persons who wilfully disobey their orders to be in contempt and such power extends to both civil and criminal contempt.”
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Judges: Van Oosterhout, Matthes, Gibson
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