Michael O. Mondy v. Magnolia Advanced Materials, Inc.

Summary

The court held that a trial judge who has been presented with a motion to recuse must temporarily stop acting on the merits, and entering a written contempt order qualifies as such an act. Although the trial judge violated that requirement by entering the written order before resolving the motion, the error was harmless because the recusal motion was facially insufficient and would properly have been denied. The contempt judgment was therefore affirmed.