Karnazes v. Ferry
The two civil harassment proceedings underlying these appeals arise out of plaintiff Elizabeth Karnazes’s limited legal representation of defendants John Ferry (appeal No. A132500) and Kirsten Petersen (appeal No. A132501), and an arrangement to which the three agreed whereby Petersen worked for Karnazes, in part as a legal assistant, in exchange for Karnazes’s legal services. As the relationship soured, Karnazes, on the one hand, and Ferry and Petersen, on the other, made heated accusations against one another. Karnazes eventually obtained civil restraining orders against Ferry and Petersen.
Ferry and Peterson appeal from several orders issued during the proceedings: (a) orders issued May 24, 2011, granting Karnazes’s ex parte requests for a continuance of the hearing date on her restraining order applications; (b) orders issued June 30, 2011, denying Petersen’s motion to consolidate the two harassment proceedings and denying Petersen’s and Ferry’s motions to further continue the hearing date; and (c) the restraining orders issued July 1, 2011. For the reasons set forth, we affirm the challenged orders.[1]
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