Court Opinion

ID: 9698351
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-25 19:48:21.279138+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T12:29:57.290965
License: Public Domain

MANDERINO, Justice,
concurring.
I join in the opinion of the Court; however, I do not endorse the holding of all cases from other jurisdictions cited therein. In some of those cases, conduct which clearly did not constitute contempt was held to be contemptuous. Secondly, I do not agree that any of appellant’s conduct in this case could have constituted contempt under subsection II of the Act of June 16, 1836, P.L. 784 § 23, 17 P.S. § 2041 (1962). Subsection II is limited to the failure to comply with a formal order, see In re Johnson, 467 Pa. 552, 556, 359 A.2d 739, 741 (1976).