The Pennsylvania Supreme Court has agreed to address whether name-calling a judge constitutes criminal contempt.

In a Wednesday order, the high court granted allocatur on the single question of, ”Where this court has declared that disrespectful or insulting remarks towards a judge without more is not contemptuous conduct, can a single act of profane name-calling directed at the judge constitute direct criminal contempt?” The question comes before the justices in the case Commonwealth v. Outlaw.