Holly Hill Investments v. Flaherty CA2/5

discussion of issue on appeal satisfies constitutional requirement because “an opinion is not a brief in reply to counsel’s arguments”; “[i]n order to state the reasons, grounds, or principles upon which a decision is based, [an appellate] court need not discuss every case or fact raised by counsel in support of the parties’ positions”].)

DISCUSSION

After a contested evidentiary hearing on two court days in January 2020, the trial court entered a Workplace Violence Restraining Order pursuant to Code of Civil Procedure section 527.8. The order protected several specifically identified individuals by prohibiting Flaherty from engaging in various acts of harassment, violence, and threats involving them, and by restraining Flaherty from coming within thirty yards of properties identified as Holly Hill’s workplace (with certain exceptions to allow Flaherty access to his property). By its express terms, the restraining order, issued on January 9, 2020, was to expire on January 9, 2021 at 5:00 p.m. The parties agree that the restraining order expired on that date.

2 An appeal is moot if events render it impossible for the appellate court to grant the appellant any effective relief.…