Pacific Trust Bank v. England CA4/2

I. INTRODUCTION

Defendant and appellant Lonnie Frank England appeals a workplace violence

restraining order obtained by his former employer, plaintiff and respondent Pacific Trust

1 Bank (the Bank), doing business as Mission Hills Mortgage. (Code Civ. Proc., § 527.8.)

The Bank petitioned for the order on June 18, 2013, the day it terminated England’s

employment.

The order was issued following a July 2, 2013, hearing, and expires on July 2,

2016.1 The order directs England to stay away from the Bank’s three branch offices,

including its Ontario branch where England was employed, and to stay away from and

not contact several Bank employees identified as protected persons in the order, and all

other Bank employees.

England claims the order must be reversed because the court (1) erroneously

refused to consider his claim that the Bank wrongfully terminated him and sought the

order in retaliation for a sexual harassment complaint he made shortly before he was

terminated, and (2) erroneously admitted the testimony of his former coworkers, Jim

Takashi Hirotsu and Jaylene Dorris, who were biased and presented hearsay.

We affirm. England has not designated an adequate record…