California’s Court of Appeals recently clarified that a defendant in a petition for restraining order under California’s Workplace Violence Safety Act (WVSA) is entitled to cross-examine witnesses at the evidentiary hearing for the restraining order.
Many California trial courts had previously not allowed defendants or their representative to cross-examine the petitioner’s witnesses. Employers seeking workplace violence restraining orders should now be prepared that the witnesses who present testimony in support of the restraining order petition will be cross-examined at the evidentiary hearing on the petition.
