Labels:book | reckoner OCR: prescribed conditional and coercive fines after its return to made the fines punitive and the action criminal nature 578 "We cannot agree the court wrote "that these proceedings evolved, any stage into criminal contempt action. its decision arising from the same strike that led this lawsuit the District for the Western District Virginia relied on these uuthorities to hold that the fines issue there were not result of the settlencnt the strike Clark supra TE Ultimately federal court however. decisions we of bound course or do not permitted suggest the Vir that these ginia Supreme Court adopt the rulc announced below. Rather, its historic power cquity: and its status independent and coordinate state court permitted the Virginia couri detemine matter ot state law that settlement of the underl ...