United States v. Milton M. Dowell, Appeal Of: Donald v. Morano

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• explaining that contempt is an appropriate action when a party \violate[s] an order that sets forth in specific detail an unequivocal command from the court\
• explaining that contempt is an appropri- ate action when a party “violate[s] an order that sets forth in specific detail an unequivocal command from the court”
• explaining that, although fines payable to the court are typically criminal contempt sanctions, such fines constitute civil contempt sanctions when purpose of fine is to compensate the court when the court, in effect, is the injured complainant
• “To be held in civil contempt, [the defendant] must have violated an order that sets forth in specific detail an unequivocal command from the court.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).