State v. Manista

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• protection order act ‘‘is not targeted at punishing the wrongdoer; rather, its purpose is to help protect the victim against further acts of violence or abuse’’
• “[I]t is the determination of this Court that a proceeding under the Protection from Abuse Act in which petitioner is seeking an order of protection from abuse is a civil proceeding.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).