Warder v. Shufeldt’s Empirical Analysis

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3 state decisions

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1. ““Among other defenses the appellant contends that the order of July 19th modifying the original injunction was in effect an abrogation thereof and deprived the court of the power to punish him, though he had violated the injunction prior to the entry of the modifying order. “If the effect of the modifying order was to abrogate the original injunction, then appellant’s position is correct. “The amendment of an order granting an injunction, which materially changes the rule of conduct prescribed in the original order, precludes punishment for civil contempt for the violation of the original order, whether such violation occurred before or after such amendment. * * * “We have copied in the opinion the substance of each of these orders, and as we read the modifying order it changed every rule of conduct prescribed by the original order of injunction. We are satisfied that the original order (as the court found) was in force until modified by the order of July 19, but not thereafter. * * * The original order was so changed by the modifying order that no distinct rule of conduct remained common to both. * * * ””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. New Jersey Zinc Co. v. Local 890 of International Union of Mine, Mill & Smelter Workers