Order of protection dismissed: OP dismissed Dykstra and Winston: MD hired me when he was served with a petition for an order of protection (OP). At the time he hired me, MD was quite nervous about having an OP against him and how that would affect his career/life. I read over the petition and interviewed MD about the situation. At that point, I was very confident that nothing bad was going to happen to MD. The petitioner of the OP was MD’s ex-girlfriend and the two parties’ relationship had ended on mixed terms. The petitioner was still interested in a relationship and MD had recently started dating a new woman. MD had told the petitioner to leave him alone. She in turn filed the petition. I simply showed the judge that the petitioner’s grounds for filing the petition was that he had told her to leave him alone. The judge agreed with me that no proper grounds had been alleged and dismissed the petition.