Konvalinka v. Chattanooga-Hamilton County Hospital Authority

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• concluding court order that individual allegedly violated must be lawful as well as clear, specific, and unambiguous
• requiring that the party “actually disobeyed or otherwise resisted the order” and that the violation must be willful
• explaining that we review the trial court’s factual findings of civil contempt with a presumption of correctness unless the evidence preponderates otherwise, pursuant to Rule 13(d) of the Tennessee Rules of Appellate Procedure
• stating that orders should be interpreted like other written instruments
• “[A]cting contrary to a known duty may constitute willfulness for the purpose -10- of a civil contempt proceeding.”
• requiring that the order be clear and unambiguous

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