Groenke v. Gabriel

Summary

The Court affirmed the ten-year order of protection because Gabriel’s repeated threats, harassment, intimidation, and communications constituted a purposeful or knowing course of conduct that would cause a reasonable person substantial emotional distress and fear for a third person’s safety. The Court held that the validity of the property listing was irrelevant to the stalking inquiry and that the lower courts did not abuse their discretion. The Court declined to consider Gabriel’s First Amendment argument because he raised it for the first time in his reply brief.