The Docks Venture, L.L.C. v. Dashing Pacific Group, Ltd. (Slip Opinion)

{¶ 1} The Sixth District Court of Appeals certified the following conflict question for our resolution: “In a contempt of court action, is the trial court’s judgment finding a party in contempt and imposing a sentence final and appealable when the sentence is imposed, albeit with purge conditions, or when the defendant has failed to purge his contempt and the sentence is executed?”

{¶ 2} For the following reasons, we have concluded that the judgment of contempt is a final, appealable order at the time sentence is imposed and the matter is journalized, but we recognize that a contemnor may have…