Defendant allegedly stalked employees, engaged in physical and verbal abuse

CSV Hospitality Management, LLC filed a petition seeking a workplace violence restraining order under California’s Workplace Violence Safety Act against the defendant, for which it submitted supporting affidavits from four employees.

The defendant in the case of CSV Hospitality Management, LLC v. Lucas was living at a residential hotel providing supportive housing to formerly homeless individuals. The four employees alleged that the defendant was very aggressive and confrontational toward the residential hotel’s tenants and workers.

Two janitors alleged that the defendant frequently subjected them to verbal abuse while they were working, stalked them, and took photos and videos of them without their consent. One janitor claimed that the defendant forcefully pushed him into a window, while the other janitor said that the defendant confronted him at two local businesses while he was off-duty.

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The trial court issued a temporary restraining order and scheduled the matter for an evidentiary hearing. The defendant denied all the allegations against him. He alleged that he recalled only one disagreement with the first janitor, which involved a dispute over COVID-19 social distancing protocols.

The defendant claimed that the second janitor addressed him with a racial slur, harassed him, and frequently watched him when he...

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