§ 25-1072.Enforcement; disobedience; punishment.

Section 25-1072 gives Nebraska’s injunctions teeth. An injunction granted by a judge may be enforced as the act of the court, and disobedience of an injunction may be punished as a contempt by the court itself, or by any judge who could have granted the injunction in vacation. That framing matters: violating an injunction is not merely a private wrong between the parties, it is treated as an affront to the court’s own authority.

To enforce that authority, the court or judge can issue an attachment against the party who breached the injunction, once satisfied by affidavit that the breach occurred. From there, the court or judge has real discretion in how to respond: the violator may be required to pay a fine of up to two hundred dollars for the county’s use, to make immediate restitution to the injured party, and to give further security to obey the injunction going forward. If the violator fails to comply with those requirements, the court or judge can commit the person to close custody until full compliance, or until the person is otherwise legally discharged.

This section works alongside section 25-1070’s rule that an injunction only binds once notice and the bond are in place — the enforcement tools here apply once that binding effect has attached and the enjoined party crosses the line the injunction drew.