· 1/9/1984
Twm Manufacturing Company, Inc., and Turner Quick-Lift Corporation, Plaintiffs v. Dura Corporation and Kidde, Inc.
Citations
- 722 F.2d 1261
How courts have described this case
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- advice of counsel and good faith conduct will not relieve party from liability for a civil contempt
- \The award of attorney's fees and expenses to a successful movant may be appropriate in a civil contempt proceeding.\
- “[Ajdvice of counsel and good faith conduct do not reheve from liability for a civil contempt, although they may affect the extent of the penalty.”
- “[Civil contempt’s] primary purposes are to compel obedience to a court order and compensate for injuries caused by noncompliance.”
- “[Civil contempt’s] primary purposes are to compel obedience to a court order and compensate for injuries caused by noncompliance.”
- “[w]illfulness, for this purpose, implies a deliberate or intended violation, as distinguished from an accidental, inadvertent or negligent violation”
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Judges: Merritt, Wellford, Brown
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