Supreme Court of the United States, 1924

The Court, through Justice McReynolds, held that a federal district court could punish disobedience of its injunction even though the acts occurred in another division of the same district.

Justice Van Devanter delivered the Court’s opinion affirming dismissal of a federal equity suit seeking to invalidate an Indiana state-court judgment. The Court held that the direct appeal was authorized by § 238 of the Judicial Code, but that the District Court lacked jurisdiction to reverse or modify a state-court…