Case Name: Cynthia Louise LOPUS, Respondent, v. Annette GLOVER, Appellant
Court: Oregon Court of Appeals
Jurisdiction: Oregon
Decision Date: 2004-05-12
Citations: 193 Or. App. 481
Docket Number: 18-03-09099; A121899
Parties: Cynthia Louise LOPUS, Respondent, v. Annette GLOVER, Appellant.
Judges: Before Haselton, Presiding Judge, and Linder and Ortega, Judges.
Reporter: Oregon Reports, Court of Appeals
Volume: 193
Pages: 481–482

Head Matter:
Submitted on record and brief April 2,
reversed May 12, 2004
Cynthia Louise LOPUS, Respondent, v. Annette GLOVER, Appellant.
18-03-09099; A121899
89 P3d 1288
Annette Glover filed the brief pro se.
No appearance for respondent.
Before Haselton, Presiding Judge, and Linder and Ortega, Judges.
PER CURIAM

Opinion:
PER CURIAM
The trial court issued a permanent stalking protective order against respondent Glover ordering her to cease and refrain from any contact with petitioner Lopus. Glover appeals, and we reverse.
To obtain a permanent stalking protective order, a party must prove by a preponderance of the evidence that the alleged stalker engaged in more than one unwanted contact with the victim and that the contacts created a reasonable apprehension of physical harm. ORS 30.866. In this proceeding, Lopus testified that, when Glover and her boyfriend (Lopus's husband or former husband) were returning Lopus's children from a visitation, Glover was carrying one of the children and failed to respond to Lopus's request to give her the child. Glover then walked toward Lopus's car with the child. The trial court refused to hear Glover's evidence and declared that, unless Glover agreed with the court that she should not be involved in returning the children from parenting time, the court would issue the stalking protective order. Glover refused to agree, and the court issued the order.
The evidence in this case fails to establish either that there was more than one unwanted contact or that any contact caused Lopus a reasonable apprehension of physical harm.
Reversed.