A judge or commissioner of the supreme court, the court of appeals, or the superior court, a judge of a court of limited jurisdiction, and a commissioner of a court of limited jurisdiction may impose a sanction for contempt of court under this chapter.
RCW 7.21.020
Sanctions—Who may impose.
Applied in 7 court decisions — leading case In Re Marriage of Didier (2006)
Most recently applied in State Of Washington, V. Shymila Nicole Luvert (November 2021)
1998 c 3 s 1; 1989 c 373 s 2.
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Court decisions citing this, by year. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
Official source: Washington State Legislature. Reproduced from public-domain Washington statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.