William S. v. Amy H.

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• noting that purpose of show cause hearing is to permit the government to respond; “if the Government fails in its defense,” the trial court should consider appropriate relief
• finding that there is no such thing as a cause of action for civil contempt, a device used simply to secure compliance with a court order
• noting only that Rule 6(e)(2) permits “equitable relief, either in addition to, in conjunction with or in lieu of contempt sanctions”
• \[C]ourts already possess an inherent authority to punish criminal contempt without additional rules or other legislative enactments.\
• “[C]ourts already possess an inherent authority to punish criminal 14 contempt without additional rules or other legislative enactments.”
• show cause hearing “carries little threat of conflict with the grand jury proceedings”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).