Wetzel v. Suchanek

How courts have described this case

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• reversing trial court’s imposition of 60 day sentence for finding of civil contempt where the only way appellant could purge himself of sentence was by obtaining employment and remanding for trial court to impose a purge which was within appellant’s present ability to comply with
• “Civil contempt has as its dominant purpose to enforce compliance with an order of court for the benefit of the party in whose favor the order runs[,]” and the contemnor has “the ability . . . to purge himself of civil contempt by complying with the court’s directive.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).