Shahi v. Madden

¶ 1. Defendant Daniel Madden and intervenor Deirdre Donnelly appeal the Windsor Superior Court’s imposition of an injunction against Madden based on a hate-motivated crime against Kaveh and Leslie Shahi. Madden and Donnelly claim the trial court lacked jurisdiction to issue the injunction, failed to make the factual findings necessary to sustain such an injunction, and never found Madden committed a “hate-motivated crime” against the Shahis based on the Shahis’ ethnicity and/or perceived religion that would support issuance of the injunction. Appellants also argue that in imposing the…