17 Cited authorities

  1. Mine Workers v. Bagwell

    512 U.S. 821 (1994)   Cited 1,385 times   2 Legal Analyses
    Holding that a court's imposition of a fine is punitive if the contemnor has no opportunity to purge it through some action other than full payment once imposed
  2. United States v. Mine Workers

    330 U.S. 258 (1947)   Cited 2,630 times   4 Legal Analyses
    Holding that a party may be punished for disobeying a court order even if the court was ultimately determined to lack jurisdiction to issue the order
  3. Colorado v. New Mexico

    467 U.S. 310 (1984)   Cited 471 times   4 Legal Analyses
    Holding that party with burden of persuasion may prevail only if he can “place in the ultimate factfinder an abiding conviction that the truth of [his] factual contentions are ‘highly probable.’ ”
  4. In re Dyer

    322 F.3d 1178 (9th Cir. 2003)   Cited 712 times   2 Legal Analyses
    Holding penalties designed to coerce compliance are civil in nature
  5. McComb v. Jacksonville Paper Co.

    336 U.S. 187 (1949)   Cited 997 times   5 Legal Analyses
    Holding that remedial civil contempt does not require proof of criminal intent
  6. Go-Video, Inc. v. Motion Picture Ass'n of America

    10 F.3d 693 (9th Cir. 1993)   Cited 391 times   1 Legal Analyses
    Holding that a protective order should be read in a reasonable and common sense manner so that its prohibitions are connected to its purpose
  7. In re Bennett

    298 F.3d 1059 (9th Cir. 2002)   Cited 286 times
    Holding that agreement entered into by lawyers after they had received a discharge to remain liable for discharged debts was unenforceable as reaffirmation process had not been observed
  8. U.S. v. Bright

    596 F.3d 683 (9th Cir. 2010)   Cited 127 times   1 Legal Analyses
    Holding that bank officials can authenticate bank records
  9. Donovan v. Mazzola

    716 F.2d 1226 (9th Cir. 1983)   Cited 247 times   1 Legal Analyses
    Holding that two investments violated diversification requirement
  10. U.S. v. Ayres

    166 F.3d 991 (9th Cir. 1999)   Cited 129 times
    Holding that a district court abused its discretion when it fined a witness for failure to comply with a civil contempt order because the IRS's inability to schedule a hearing on short notice ultimately caused the finable delay, notwithstanding that the defendant's own delay in contacting the IRS created a foreseeable risk that the IRS could not accommodate him on short notice
  11. Section 401 - Power of court

    18 U.S.C. § 401   Cited 2,210 times   10 Legal Analyses
    Finding of contempt discretionary in Court