Jeremiah Curtis-Shanley v. J.G.

(i) The respondent was able to get two no contact orders from the State of Connecticut over a brief series of communications that were polite, necessary, and minimal. She was asked if she wanted to settle outside of court. Later a therapist contacted her for a wellness check when she displayed signs of being in crisis. The petitioner made a special appearance to object to jurisdiction. He had no connection to Connecticut and the speech/conduct was legal in New York. Connecticut’s prior restraint deprived another state’s judiciary of the ability to process a case. QUESTIONS PRESENTED Did the State of Connecticut violate the petitioner's 1st and 14th Amendment rights when it imposed a no contact order (CPO) for speech/conduct that was neither unlawful, threatening, defamatory, nor obscene, given that he had no connection to the state and objected? (CT CPOs are judicial, not legislative, prior restraints.) Does Connecticut's system of judicial publicity chill the petitioner’s right to petition the government?