Opatut v. Guest Pond Club, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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• holding that a motion for contempt is not a complaint, does not come within the Civil Practice Act’s definition of a pleading, and does not, by itself, commence a civil action for damages
• affirming a trial court’s finding of civil contempt, including its application of the order being enforced, as “within the spirit and letter of the original consent decree” and thus within its discretion
• “[A]n application for contempt may not, standing alone, serve to commence a civil action for damages as it is not a complaint.”
• motion for contempt may not be amended to assert a new cause of action for money damages
• motion for contempt may not be amended to assert a new cause of action for money damages
• “an application for contempt may not, standing alone, serve to commence a civil action for damages as it is not a complaint”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).