Opinion ID: 2120575
Heading Depth: 1
Heading Rank: 6

Heading: Debtor's Prison

Text: Omni also contends that because 3D has an adequate remedy at law, the circuit court's punishment for contempt is analogous to imprisoning someone ... for what basically amounts to a debt thereby constituting cruel and unusual punishment and violating its right to a trial by jury. Once more, Omni has failed to provide convincing argument or sufficient citation to legal authority on this point. See City of Benton v. Arkansas Soil & Water Conserv. Comm'n, supra . Omni merely asserts that imprisonment is only justified where there has been willful disobedience of the orders of the court. Indeed, this court said as much in East v. East, 148 Ark. 143, 229 S.W. 5 (1921). To repeat, in the instant case, Papachristou and Omni willfully disobeyed the court's order to return certain planes assembled. This point has no merit.