Patterson Oil Co. v. Brodhead

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• the trial court’s sanction does not dispose of the issue whether contempt is civil or criminal in nature; rather, it is some evidence of what was sought to be accomplished
• the sentence should be reasonably commensurate with the gravity of the offense when imposing a sanction inherent with the court’s direct contempt power, which extends beyond the statutory limitations
• but conditional contempt is not necessarily civil where coercion is a secondary purpose
• where the contemnor was summarily held in contempt

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