California, United States of America
The following excerpt is from Leahy v. Peterson, D072383 (Cal. App. 2018):
Code of Civil Procedure4 section 527.6 provides for expedited injunctive relief to victims of harassment. "The statute enables a person who has suffered harassmentdefined by the statute as 'unlawful violence, a credible threat of violence, or a knowing and willful course of conduct directed at a specific person that seriously alarms, annoys, or harasses the person, and that serves no legitimate purpose'to 'seek . . . an injunction prohibiting harassment . . . .'" (Cooper v. Bettinger (2015) 242 Cal.App.4th 77, 88 (Cooper).) The statute further provides, "The course of conduct must be that which would cause a reasonable person to suffer substantial emotional distress, and must actually cause substantial emotional distress to the petitioner." ( 527.6, subd. (b)(3).)
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