Zimmerman v. Smith

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• holding that civil contempt sanctions may “serve to coerce future compliance,” and that courts have “broad discretion” in setting the amount of such sanctions (internal quotation marks omitted)
• finding civil contempt is a wholly remedial measure intended to “coerce future compliance or to remedy any harm caused by noncompliance” (internal quotation marks omitted)
• “After the court uses the defendants’ gross receipts as a 5 baseline for calculating damages, the court must permit the defendants to put forth evidence 6 showing that certain amounts should offset the sanctions assessed against them.”
• applying it to a similar FTC enforcement action

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).