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Supreme Court of Florida· 7/14/2000

Parisi v. Broward County

Citations

  • 769 So. 2d 359
  • 2000 WL 966709

How courts have described this case

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

  • noting a trial court’s “unquestioned authority to order a civil contempt fine to compensate for losses sustained,” which is to “be based on evidence of the injured party’s actual loss” (internal quotation and citation omitted)
  • “[T]he key safeguard in civil contempt proceedings is ... that the contemnor has the ability to purge the contempt.”
  • “It has long been recognized that courts have the authority to enforce a judgment by the exercise of their contempt powers.”
  • “[I]n order to impose a valid coercive sanction, the trial court must . . . include a purge provision.”
  • “[A] monetary fine as a contempt sanction may be legally imposed as .a compensatory contempt sanction.”
  • “[I]n imposing both criminal fines or coercive civil contempt fines, the court must consider the financial resources of the contemnor in setting the amount of the fine.”

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Judges: Pariente

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Cites

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Other cases named Parisi v. Broward County

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