including the right to issue and enforce orders granting a writ of mandamus. 4 V.I.C. § 32(b); see also 4 V.I.C. § 243(4) (“Every court shall have power . . . [t]o compel obedience to its judgments, orders, and process, and to the orders of a judge out of court, in all actions, or proceedings pending therein.”); 4 V.I.C. § 281 (“Every judicial officer shall have power . . . [t]o compel obedience to his lawful orders.”); 14 V.I.C. § 581; In re Burke, 50 V.I. 346, 350-51 (V.I. 2008). “Contempt is the common method of enforcing orders in the law actions of mandamus, prohibition, and habeas corpus.” Burton v. Wayne Circuit Judge, 325 Mich. 159, 37 N.W.2d 899, 902 (1949). See also United States v. Providence Journal Co., 485 U.S. 693, 701-02, 108 S. Ct. 1502, 99 L. Ed. 2d 785 (1988) (<HOLDING>); Young v. United States ex rel. Vuitton et
recognizing inherent power of supreme court independent of statutory authority to punish for contempt of court holding corporation and its president in criminal contempt because previous order of civil contempt had not been purged recognizing a courts inherent authority to initiate a criminal contempt proceeding for disobedience of its order holding that in addition to statutory contempt powers city courts have inherent contempt power recognizing district courts inherent authority to dismiss with prejudice for abuse of judicial process