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The Federal Courts And Indirect Criminal Contempt, Philip L. Peeler

Vanderbilt Law Review

The purpose of this note will be to deal with one method of implementation, i.e., the use of the court's power to punish for criminal contempt particularly in regard to decrees, and the extent to which and under what circumstances persons not directly named in those decrees may be subjected to punishment for conduct of a criminal nature which interferes with the enforcement of those decrees...

Judicial decisions which conflict with settled moral and ethnological convictions are not translated overnight into effective standards of acceptable behavior. The decisions, however, must be implemented.'The purpose of this note will be to deal …