Court Order

A San Diego County Superior Court judge issued a temporary restraining order Thursday preventing The Times from publishing any information about security measures installed at the home of San Diego County Sheriff John Duffy.

The son of a prominent Orange County psychiatrist on Thursday successfully stopped his father from spending any more of the family fortune on what a lawsuit says was a Nigerian Internet scam that duped him out of as much as $3 million. Guy Gottschalk won a court order preventing his father, Louis A. Gottschalk, the founding chairman of the department of psychiatry at UC Irvine, from wiring more money to Nigeria.

Butch Reynolds, the world record-holder in the 400 meters, was granted a temporary restraining order that could allow him to attempt to qualify for the U.S. Olympic trials. Reynolds, Ohio State star and the 1988 Olympic silver medalist, has been banned from competition since 1990 because of a positive test for an anabolic steroid. The International Amateur Athletic Federation, the world governing body for track and field, denied his appeal May 11. The order, issued in Columbus, Ohio, by U.S.

Two undercover Los Angeles County sheriff's deputies have been ordered by a federal judge to appear today in Whittier so that an attorney can serve them with a lawsuit alleging that they killed a Van Nuys woman. U.S. District Judge Mariana R. Pfaelzer granted the request from attorney Stephen Yagman, who argued that he had been unable to serve the men with the suit because the Sheriff's Department would not cooperate. Yagman represents Mary Postma, mother of Catherine M.

With a blast at the judge who issued it, a split Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors moved Tuesday to overturn a court order requiring health and welfare workers to see to it that thousands of poor and minority residents register to vote. Board Chairman Pete Schabarum led the criticism with a personal attack against Superior Court Judge Jack M. Newman, who issued the ruling last week.

Demolition of the landmark "Red Car" depot in Santa Ana was halted Tuesday morning after a coalition of architectural preservationists and supporters of low-income housing secured a court order that stopped the wrecking crew. Workers had already torn the roof from the old Pacific Electric depot on 4th Street and were hammering chunks out of the walls when they received a temporary restraining order issued just minutes before by Superior Court Judge Judith Ryan.

A federal appeals court today ordered reduction or elimination of the $34.6-million damage award to the Los Angeles Raiders' for the National Football League's attempt to bar the team's move from Oakland. By a 2-1 vote, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that the damages must be reduced by the amount the NFL might have been able to charge the Raiders for moving into the lucrative Los Angeles market, where the league might have otherwise been able to place an expansion team.

Disturbed by the infrequent use of a new law designed to protect battered women, Superior Court officials have called a meeting with police agencies around the county to encourage them to apply for more restraining orders at night and on weekends. The state law took effect July 1, enabling officers to get restraining orders over the telephone, during hours when courts are closed, to separate couples troubled by violence.

An unlicensed day-care provider in Moorpark has been ordered by a Ventura County Superior Court judge to stop taking children into her home, where inspectors found marijuana in a kitchen cabinet and a BB gun on the refrigerator. After almost a year of investigation by county officials, Judge Bruce Thompson issued the unusual preliminary injunction on Tuesday, ordering Susan Perez Provencher, 38, to stop providing day care in her home at 6708 Auburn Circle.

A court order has forced the shutdown of an Anaheim auto salvage firm that has stockpiled 50,000 tons of residue laced with toxic PCBs, even as city officials prepare to vote on possible revocation of the company's operation permit, authorities said. The effects of the latest court order and the ongoing controversy surrounding Orange County Steel Salvage Inc. hit the firm's employees hard last week when 30 of its 36 employees were laid off, attorneys for the company said Tuesday.