Why can California courts extend restraining orders and protect family members? A plain-English legal explainer following the ...

Judges hearing domestic violence cases should exercise caution when admitting evidence of prior acts that are not in the original complaint, lest they risk violating due process, the state Supreme ...

Kings County Supreme Court Justice Katherine Levine ruled on Monday to lift the temporary restraining order blocking the Gowanus, Brooklyn, rezoning — a project covering 80 blocks between Park Slope ...

Since 1994, federal law has prohibited gun possession by people who are subject to domestic violence restraining orders. Although that provision may seem like a commonsensical safeguard, the U.S.

A lawsuit has temporarily stalled the land use process for the controversial Spice Factory development that threatens the Brooklyn Botanic Garden, after a borough judge authorized a temporary ...

MILWAUKEE -- Amid the coronavirus pandemic, officials with Milwaukee's Sojourner Family Peace Center are helping individuals file temporary restraining orders electronically. Sojourner officials ...

PIMA COUNTY, Ariz - There is a new online tool for victims of domestic abuse, sexual assault, dating violence, stalking or other forms of harassment to start the process of filing a restraining order ...

Denise Richards spoke out about the long-term restraining order she obtained against her estranged husband, Aaron Phypers, calling it “a process.” On Sunday, November 16, Richards, 54, appeared at ...