People v. Lockhart

How courts have described this case

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

• party may not be held in contempt for refusing to do that which he is unable to do
• civil contempt where party who has a present ability to obey has refused to perform
• “A party may be held in contempt only for refusal to do exactly what the court order requires.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).