Stephan Jay Lawrence v. Alan L. Goldberg

How courts have described this case

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• holding that certain assets in offshore trust were assets of estate
• cautioning lower courts that when civil contempt sanctions lose their coercive effect, they become punitive and violate the contemnor’s due process rights
• affirming bankruptcy court’s imprisonment of a debtor for civil contempt for failing to comply with a turnover order
• recognizing a court’s duty to exercise common sense
• affirming contempt order when debtor refused to repatriate funds from overseas trust
• affirming bankruptcy court’s order of imprisonment to coerce compliance with its turnover order when settlor of offshore asset protection trust retained de facto control over the trust and therefore held the keys to his prison in his pocket

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).