MOVIE SYSTEMS v. MAD MINNEAPOLIS AUDIO DISTRIB.

No. 82-1799.

717 F.2d 427 (1983)

MOVIE SYSTEMS, INC., an Iowa corporation, Appellee, v. MAD MINNEAPOLIS AUDIO DISTRIBUTORS, A DIVISION OF SMOLIAK & SONS, INC., a Minnesota corporation, and of Video Club, Inc.; and Gary Smoliak, Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit.

Decided September 2, 1983.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Marc G. Kurzman, Kurzman, Shapiro, Manahan & Partridge, Minneapolis, Minn., Jonathan T. Howe, Joseph L. Nellis, Washington, D.C., for appellants.

Thomas A. Keller, III, Robert A. Brunig, O'Connor & Hannan, Minneapolis, Minn., for appellee; Raymond W. Conley, General Counsel, Des Moines, Iowa, of counsel.

Before ROSS and JOHN R. GIBSON, Circuit Judges, and ROBERTS, District Judge.


JOHN R. GIBSON, Circuit Judge.

MAD Minneapolis Audio Distributors and its manager, Gary Smoliak, appeal from the district court1 order denying Movie Systems' motion for adjudication of civil contempt. Appellants principally contend that (1) the order modifies, rather than clarifies, a prior injunction by eliminating its conditions and making the injunction absolute; (2) the modification was improperly granted in the absence of changed...

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