Canteros-Alvarez v. Green — Conditional Text Threat Does Not Establish Imminent Physical Harm Under Utah’s Cohabitant Abuse Act
The Utah Court of Appeals vacated a protective order against a sister whose angry text—expressing a conditional desire to fight—did not place the petitioner in reasonable fear of imminent physical harm under the Cohabitant Abuse Act, because the threatened violence was contingent on a future event, the parties were physically distant, and there was no history of violence between them.