Ryan v. Commission on Judicial Performance

How courts have described this case

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• failure to know of or research proper contempt procedures constituted “bad faith” under two-prong Wenger test
• “[W]e give special weight to the factual determinations of the masters, who are best able to evaluate the truthfulness of the witnesses before them.”
• court found judge abused contempt power and committed willful misconduct when, in contempt proceedings, judge completely ignored proper procedures and never gave the individual a chance to respond prior to ordering her incarceration

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).