Extended Vijay Law Library

Violence, a threat of violence, or serious harassment can quickly become a workplace safety problem. It may involve a customer who fixates on an employee, a former employee making threats, a coworker, or someone whose conduct follows an employee to the jobsite. If…

Someone in your life is harassing you and will not stop. Maybe it is the neighbor whose hostility has crossed from unpleasant into frightening. Maybe it is a coworker, acquaintance, former friend, or stranger from one bad encounter who now will not leave you…

Someone's conduct has crossed a line, or someone claims yours has, and a civil harassment restraining order (CHRO) has been filed. Now everything turns on a single legal question: does it count as "harassment"? The word gets used loosely in daily life for…

You have decided, or are close to deciding, that you need protection from someone that is harassing you. Maybe it is a neighbor whose hostility has become frightening, an acquaintance who will not stop contacting you, or someone whose conduct has begun to affect…

Someone may be harming an older adult you care about. Money is disappearing and a caregiver or relative may control the mail, the phone, or visits from family. There may be threats, rough handling, neglect, or pressure to sign papers. Or you may be the person…