By Mani Dabiri | Published January 28, 2021 | Posted in Civil Business Litigation and Investigations | Tagged Tags: civilharassment, dueprocess, jurisdiction, restrainingorders |
Queen Versus Archangel
What do you do if you file for a restraining order but can’t find the person to serve them with court papers? Well, the California Court of Appeal just decided a case that raised that question. True story. A woman named Queen had a couple bad encounters with a homeless guy named Michael Archangel, and she filed Read More
Read MoreCalifornia Expands Employee Protections for Crime Victims
Under a new law, California employers may not discriminate or retaliate against employees who take time off to get a restraining order or seek other help for their health, safety, or welfare (or that of their child) as a victim of a crime. And employers must provide them reasonable accommodations for their safety upon request. Read More
Read MoreL.A. County Goes Remote for Restraining Orders
Now you can file your papers from home. Effective June 15, the L.A. Superior Court will accept applications for restraining orders at new, dedicated email addresses for each participating courthouse. There are now four ways to file a request for a restraining order (or a response to one). You can email them in. You can fax them Read More
Read MoreNew Federal Rules Proposed About Sexual Harassment on Campus
On Thursday, the U.S. Department of Education proposed new rules on the handling of sexual-harassment complaints on school campuses that receive federal funding. The regulations aim to address when a school violates Title IX, a federal law against sex discrimination, based on the way it responds (or doesn’t respond) to such complaints. There is a Read More
Read MoreFrom Restraining Orders to Revenge Porn
One reason to get a restraining order is if you’re the victim of revenge porn. But actually, California frowns on any kind of non-consensual pornography, whether done for revenge or not. Either way, it’s an invasion of privacy that carries civil or criminal consequences. This means the law will hold you liable for the following conduct. Read More
Read MoreCalifornia’s Restraining Order Against School Violence
There’s one other restraining order to round out our series, but the name is a mouthful. It’s the private post-secondary school-violence restraining order. This order addresses threats of violence at a private college or university or other school that provides vocational, professional, or post-secondary education. It can help protect students who the school believes or Read More
Read MoreRestraining Orders to Protect the Elderly, the Disabled, and the Workplace
For two weeks we’ve covered the two main restraining orders in California. First it was the domestic-violence restraining order; then it was the civil-harassment restraining order. Here are two more to mention for now. One is a restraining order for elders and dependent adults. To get one, you must be at least 65 years old Read More
Read MoreCalifornia’s Civil-Harassment Restraining Order
Last week it was the domestic-violence restraining order, or DVRO. This week it’s the other main type of restraining order: the civil-harassment restraining order. It can help protect you from everyone else in life: from perfect strangers to people outside your immediate family or dating history. That can be a friend, a neighbor, a roommate, Read More
Read MoreCalifornia’s Domestic-Violence Restraining Order
As promised last week, here’s the scoop on restraining orders in California. First is the domestic-violence restraining order, or DVRO for short. It’s a court order that can help protect you from the abuse of people close to you. Because it’s a domestic-violence restraining order, it only applies to people who are or were married, Read More
Read MoreGet a Restraining Order
A toxic relationship can happen to anyone. You. Me. Our parents or children, siblings or relatives, friends or coworkers. And they do happen to people—all the time. They always have, and they always will, so long as the world turns and people continue to interact. If you find yourself in one, you may not know Read More
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