{"id":12340,"date":"2026-05-17T22:56:53","date_gmt":"2026-05-18T02:56:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/?p=12340"},"modified":"2026-05-17T22:56:55","modified_gmt":"2026-05-18T02:56:55","slug":"contempt-was-not-denial-of-due-process","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/?p=12340","title":{"rendered":"Contempt Was Not Denial of Due Process"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The imposition of contempt sanctions by the Orphans&#8217; Court for filing additional frivolous pleadings after being ordered not to was not a denial of due process even though no formal hearing was held because the litigant had notice of the order directing him to refrain from filing additional pleadings and the court granted a hearing for reconsideration of the sanctions at which the litigant had an opportunity to rebut the court&#8217;s findings regarding the contempt.  <em>In re: Toni Ruzacki<\/em>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pacourts.us\/assets\/opinions\/Superior\/out\/J-A02034-26m%20-%20106785515358769586.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">660 WDA 2025<\/a> (Pa. Super. 5\/15\/2026) (non-precedential).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The imposition of contempt sanctions by the Orphans&#8217; Court for filing additional frivolous pleadings after being ordered not to was not a denial of due process even though no formal hearing was held because the litigant had notice of the &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/?p=12340\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[600,195,807],"class_list":["post-12340","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-opinions","tag-contempt","tag-due-process","tag-motion-for-reconsideration","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12340","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12340"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12340\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12341,"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12340\/revisions\/12341"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}