Getting Beyond the Civil/Criminal Distinction: A New Approach to the Regulation of Indirect Contempts

Earl C. Dudley Jr.;

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Getting Beyond the Civil/Criminal Distinction: A New Approach to the Regulation of Indirect Contempts

Earl C. Dudley Jr.

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Virginia Law Review

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1993

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Earl C. Dudley Jr., Getting Beyond the Civil/Criminal Distinction: A New Approach to the Regulation of Indirect Contempts, 79 Virginia Law Review, 1025–1098 (1993).

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