United States v. Commonwealth of Massachusetts

How courts have described this case

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• review of district court’s ultimate finding on contempt should be conducted with deference to the court’s “intimate understanding of the history and circumstances of th[e] litigation”
• “[WJhile the Commonwealth has not complied with the decree’s staffing ratios, the district court was within its discretion in determining that such non-compliance does not constitute contempt.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).