Legal Opinion

Parisi v. Mazzaferro

California Court of Appeal

Decided November 23, 2016No. A145643PublishedCited by 14 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

Opinion

BRUINIERS, J.

William Parisi obtained a civil harassment restraining order (Code Civ. Proc., § 527.6) 1 against his father-in-law, Ronald Mazzaferro. Among other grounds, Mazzaferro challenges sufficiency of the evidence to support the restraining order and alleges the order imposes unlawful prior restraint on his First Amendment and state constitutional rights. We remand to the trial court to more precisely define the scope of conduct prohibited by the restraining order, but otherwise affirm.

I. Background and Procedural History 2

Mazzaferro is a vexatious litigant. The genesis of this…

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