Azzolino v. Dingfelder

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• stating that a party should properly challenge “an adverse judgment or ruling” through the courts – not by engaging in “disobedience of such order or by interfering with or obstructing the judicial processes”
• contempt requires a mens rea of committing acts “calculated to embarrass, hinder, or obstruct the court in the administration of justice” (emphasis added)
• \[a] dissatisfied litigant should challenge the correctness of an adverse judgment or ruling by an appeal and not by disobedience of such order or by interfering with or obstructing the judicial processes\

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).