Courthouse News Service v. Quinlan

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• declining to reach merits of husband’s claim that post-divorce agreement which parties intended to satisfy divorce judgment was valid defense to contempt complaint
• under certain circumstances judge may properly rule without evidentiary hearing, but typically in cases where material facts are not in dispute
• \To constitute civil contempt there must be a clear and undoubted disobedience of a clear and unequivocal command\
• where material facts are not in dispute, “a judge may properly rule on a complaint for contempt without an evidentiary hear ing, or without receiving live testimony”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).