PROVIDENCE, RI — Where a Superior Court judge dissolved an order of protection, the judge erred in applying a clear and convincing standard to determine whether the plaintiff had been assaulted by the ...

Ashley Kittelson did everything she could to keep herself safe from the years of physical and emotional abuse by her husband that she had documented. The 35-year-old International Falls, Minn., nurse ...

Attorneys for a Delaware County assistant prosecutor say a visiting judge appointed to oversee her request for a civil protection order against a county Common Pleas Court judge was in that judge's ...

The Colorado Supreme Court's majority ruled on Monday that a violation of a restraining order can always serve as a basis to find a defendant guilty of burglary, as well.

PROVIDENCE, RI — A preponderance of the evidence standard should be used in domestic protective order proceedings in which temporary firearm restrictions are imposed, the Rhode Island Supreme Court ...