Case Number 230P19607, 11/1/2023
Case Overview
Katie Breen appeared in Cook County, Illinois on November 1, 2023, seeking a restraining order against Las Vegas resident Brian Glicklich, with whom she had a two year long close friendship.
Breen testified that Glicklich had threatened her safety, including “I was scared he was gonna kill me,” but provided no evidence to verify her claims.
She also demanded “over $200,000” for what she characterized as “loss of wages, moving costs, legal counsel, therapy, emotional distress and damages, selling my car…” Katie Breen’s full petition is attached.
Despite the lack of corroborating evidence, and Glicklich’s location some 1500 miles from Cook County, the judge entered a temporary order, pending a hearing.
Emergency Motion to Vacate
Glicklich then filed an emergency motion for reconsideration of the temporary order, alleging that Katie Breen had fabricated all relevant elements of her petition. Breen’s petition upon which the Order was based, he said, “contain(ed) numerous false statements, factual misrepresentations, and omissions of key facts.” Glicklich’s motion is attached.
Katie Breen did not file any answer to Glicklich’s emergency motion. His motion was set for hearing on December 15, 2023.
Emergency Motion Hearing
At the hearing, Glicklich voluntarily testified for roughly two hours, providing multiple text messages, emails, and other physical evidence that corroborated the statements made in his motion. Katie Breen declined to take the stand, and her claims remained unsupported.
At the end of Glicklich’s testimony, the judge immediately vacated the prior order she had issued from the bench, saying that “the evidence adduced today definitely advised the Court of things that the Court was not aware of when it issued the emergency order.”
The matter was then set for regular order, which would have led to discovery, in which Katie would have had to sit for a deposition, and been compelled to produce relevant emails and text messages.
Case Dismissal
Instead, Katie directed her attorney to dismiss the petition in full, and that order was entered on January 10, 2024. She never signed the negotiated agreement referenced in the dismissal.
Katie Breen never supported her original petition with any testimony of any kind. Glicklich’s civil rights were suspended from across the country for seven weeks until his emergency motion was heard, and he incurred tens of thousands of dollars in legal expenses.