Question(s) presented

Granted limited to question 1 presented by the petition. This case presents two fundamental and recurring questions concerning the limits on the equitable authority of the federal courts:

Whether a court may hold a party in civil contempt based on a violation of an injunction’s “spirit” where the injunction is silent as to the conduct upon which contempt is based, as the Ninth Circuit holds; or, instead, whether a court must ground a finding of civil contempt on the violation of an order that clearly and unambiguously proscribes the precise conduct at issue, as other circuits hold.
Whether the Ninth Circuit has properly created an “antitrust” or “competition” exception to Trump v. CASA, Inc., 606 U.S. 831 (2025), and the longstanding equitable principles on which CASA rests, or otherwise disregarded CASA’s limits.

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