AngioDynamics, Inc. v. Biolitec AG

STAHL, Circuit Judge.

Defendants, who violated a preliminary injunction, appealed the resulting civil contempt order entered by the district court. The contempt order included a civil arrest warrant and an escalating fines provision. Defendants persisted in their defiance as the unpaid coercive fines continued to accumulate. We affirmed the contempt order and remanded “only to direct the district court to amend the sanction order so that the fines cease to accrue at some total amount.” AngioDynamics, Inc. v. Biolitec AG (Biolitec II), 780 F.3d 420, 428 (1st Cir.), cert. denied, — U.S. —, 136…