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an extended civil restraint order (formerly an Ebert order [4]) for "persistently vexatious behaviour" lasts for a specified period of no more than three years for "applications touching upon instant matters" and can only be granted by a judge of the Court of Appeal, High Court or a designated civil judge. a general civil restraint order ...
For example, in 2005 a New Mexico judge issued a restraining order against New York City-based TV host David Letterman after a woman made claims of abuse and harassment, including allegations that Letterman had spoken to her via coded messages on his TV show. The judge later admitted that he granted the restraining order not on the merits of ...
Beginning in 2014, following the killing of Eric Garner, a coalition of activists began to call for the repeal of Section 50-a.Some organizations that advocated for the repeal of the law include Communities United for Police Reform, New York Communities for Change, East Coast Coalition for Tolerance and Non-Discrimination, Make the Road New York, New York City Bar Association, the New York ...
New York Times Co. v. United States, 403 U.S. 713 (1971), was a landmark decision of the Supreme Court of the United States on the First Amendment right to freedom of the press. The ruling made it possible for The New York Times and The Washington Post newspapers to publish the then- classified Pentagon Papers without risk of government ...
Civil Harassment Restraining Order; Civil restraint order; Conservatorship; Court order; Crime and Disorder Act 1998; Criminal behaviour order; D. De homine replegiando;
On June 1, Mayor Bill de Blasio met with Governor Cuomo and the two declared a curfew for New York City starting at 11 p.m., lasting until 5:00 a.m. Tuesday morning. It was the first city-wide curfew imposed in New York since the Harlem riot of 1943, which followed a white police officer shooting an African American. [19] [96] [97]
A Civil Harassment Restraining Order (CHO) is a form of restraining order or order of protection used in the state of California.It is a legal intervention in which a person who is deemed to be harassing, threatening or stalking another person is ordered to stop, with the goal of reducing risk of further threat or harm to the person being harassed.
Castle Rock v. Gonzales, 545 U.S. 748 (2005), is a United States Supreme Court case in which the Court ruled, 7–2, that a town and its police department could not be sued under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 for failing to enforce a restraining order, which had led to the murders of a woman's three children by her estranged husband. [1]