If that swap succeeded, the new bonds could presumably be honored without violating the injunction.
Those violating the injunction are subject to fines and imprisonment.Alabamians are aghast.
Eventually the government abandoned the criminal charges, but Debs and his codefendants, all officers of the ARU, stood trial for violating the injunction.
"If the Department of Justice decides to play hardball here, it would not be violating the injunction, but it would be violating the Constitution.
Mr. Zemel had been arrested last night and charged with contempt of court for allegedly violating the injunction banning the festival.
"It could not maintain the cross without violating the injunction," he wrote, "but it could not remove the cross without conveying disrespect for those the cross was seen as honoring".
But Justice Kennedy held that the land transfer seemed a reasonable accommodation to a thorny dilemma presented by a 2002 injunction ordering the cross's removal: The government, he wrote, "could not maintain the cross without violating the injunction, but it could not remove the cross without conveying disrespect for those the cross was seen as honoring".
It may be added to the background of facts that, between January 19, when the injunction issued, and the time when the appeal was perfected, various individual defendants, petitioners here, were cited to show cause why they should not be punished for contempt for violating the injunction.
On July 7, at the height of the violence, federal officers arrested Debs and four other ARU leaders for contempt of court (for violating the injunction) and for criminal conspiracy to interfere with the U.S. mail; all five were soon released on a $10,000 bond.
The first observation to be made on this subject is that the plaintiffs in error are seeking to reverse a judgment of the district court of Plymouth county, Iowa, imposing upon them a fine and imprisonment for violating the injunction of that court, which had been regularly issued and served upon them.
The Austrian court fined him $185,000 for violating the injunction.
