The full story of these lawsuits includes the entire history of the relationship between Catherine Lynne Carter Evans (CLC) and me (RGB), covering most of CLC’s life, from the time she arrived on the Reed campus at seventeen. CLC’s telling tends to conflate all events as if they have happened within the last few years, so this timeline sets out the high points with precise, confirmable dates, for scope and context. May these dates and context help judges, police and others assess all claims of “imminent danger” and “reasonable fear.”

1994 Friendship

199408 August: CLC & RGB meet at Reed, become friends

1996 Romance

199603 March: CLC and RGB’s brother Marcus are briefly a couple, part after a few weeks

199609 September: RGB confirms with Marcus that it is okay to begin dating CLC

199611 November: RGB and CLC begin dating

1997 Tragedy

199701 January: CLC moves in and begins living with RGB

199703 March: Having been in a car crash and sustained a closed-head brain injury months before, Marcus ends by taking his own life.

1998 Split

199801 January: CLC and RGB go into couples counseling, CLC moves out to focus on her senior thesis

199804 April: RGB is diagnosed with major, episodic depression

199804 April: CLC & RGB remain friendly, continue “exit counseling” as a couple

199806 June: CLC makes last visit to RGB’s home, promises a letter by 6 October

199810 October: Having received no letter, RGB emails CLC to suggest a phone call

199810 October: Lawyer One Martitia Dell intervenes, meets with RGB and threatens restraining order

199810 October: RGB sends the “Dump-O-Matic,” a bitter, multiple-choice return letter

1999 Round One

199907 July: RGB collects small items CLC had asked he return, mails them to California

199907 July: Email exchange about contents of package, which is returned to RGB as “refused”

199907 July: RGB uses truck key given by CLC to return her property, including large sofa

199907 July: CLC asserts this is a threat of some sort and (with Dell) has Lawyer Two file for a restraining order

199907 July: CLC’s request for a PRO is denied by judge Smedema, Bowman returns truck key to lawyer

2001 Interlude

200101 January: Unbeknownst to CLC, they are simultaneously at a mutual acquaintance’s house at least twice, where RGB avoids her

200102 February: Bowman sends a birthday letter via CLC’s lawyer, which is returned unopened.

2003

200302 February: RGB sees CLC at a dance performance but does not approach her

200302 February: RGB sends a banal birthday letter, offering good wishes and friendship if she so chooses

200303 March: CLC becomes very angry with various mutual acquaintances, conveys displeasure at “betrayal”

2005

200511 November: RGB notices CLC on a social networking site, chooses not to attempt any sort of contact

200512 December: CLC notices RGB on the same web site, posts a city-wide announcement of concern

2006 Round Two

200601 January: CLC’s boyfriend, Kevin Balmer, (inadvertently?) invites RGB to a film screening

200601 January: RGB responds in advance that he will attend, CLC also indicates she will attend

200601 January: Kevin Balmer changes his online “avatar” to one of him pointing a pistol at the camera

200601 January: RGB attends the screening with his girlfriend, but is not approached

200602 February: RGB decides to leave overly dramatic social-networking site, sends letter to CLC’s last known lawyer

200603 March: Letter to CLC’s lawyer is returned as undeliverable, RGB decides to contact Kevin Balmer directly

200603 March: CLC takes contact of Balmer as an attempt to reach her, files again via Lawyer Three for restraining order through judge Albrecht

200604 April: CLC has second hearing where judge Todd grants order, explaining how to have rescinded later

200604 April: RGB sends letter to CLC’s new lawyer explaining his plans for next few years

2007 Interlude

200701 January: RGB and girlfriend accidentally see CLC at art event, immediately leave event and venue

200710 October: RGB letter to Callahan (CLC lawyer) requesting vacation of order in 2008.

2008

200803 March: RGB goes to courthouse and finds that the process to vacate order is complex, expensive

200803 March: With deadline for requested vacation past, RGB begins a series of blog postings about entire sordid sequence

200803 March: CLC enlists friends to try and begin counter-attack on what they claim is “bile & lies” about CLC

200804 April: CLC contacts Portland police, asserting mention of her is a willful violation of April 2006 order

200804 April: RGB’s blog posts regarding CLC’s actions continue at approximately one per month

200805 May: RGB’s lawyer advises CLC through counsel against defamation and CLC’s Internet activity ceases

200809 September: CLC names RGB as the prime suspect in a burglary of her residence

200811 November: Portland Police Bureau detective contacts RGB for questioning re burglary

200811 November: At suggestion of detective, RGB’s lawyer suggests mediation through counsel to address CLC’s fears

200812 December: CLC and Lawyer Three agree to mediation, but attempted mediation fails when CLC fails to appear

2009 Round Three from Shanghai

200901 January: CLC is living full-time in Shanghai, China.

200905 May: RGB files through counsel for termination of Todd’s 2006 order on behalf of CLC

200906 June: CLC counsel requests postponement of hearing

200907 July: CLC counsel suggests CLC be allowed to testify “telephonically”, presumably from Shanghai.

200908 August: CLC fails to appear at a four-hour hearing and, in a bench ruling by judge Cinniger, Todd’s 2006 order on behalf of CLC is terminated

200910 October: As foreshadowed beginning in 2006, CatherineLynneCarter.com goes live, making mutual stupidity evident so others might avoid such idiotic and unnecessary waste of resources in future. Although now a resident of Shanghai, Carter files appeal through Lawyer Four.

2011 Appeal

201104 April: Appelate hearing in Supreme Court chambers, Salem.

201112 December: CLC and Reed graduate Mark Englehart Evans travel from Shanghai for their marriage in Tucson.

2012 Remanded

201205 May: Appeal court reverses and remands case. Carter finds “corporate experience unfulfilling” and is separated from Adidas. Carter’s attorneys demand $25,355.30, propose insulting settlement.

201206 June: Bowman makes simpler counter-offer, temporarily takes down 52 of 55 posts as peaceful gesture.

201207 July: Full website returned with petition for review by Oregon supreme court posted.

201209 September: Oregon supreme court denies free-speech petition for review.

201212 December: Lawyer Number Five debuts with 39-question financial interrogatory.

2013

201301 January: Carter-Evans lawyers Three and Four postpone March hearing. Lawyer Five deployed.

201302 February: Carter-Evans engages Lawyer Six to expand her legal mischief into Washington.

201304 April: Carter-Evans flies in from Shanghai to see the second termination of her 2006 order.

201305 May: Second termination of 2006 order is filed.

201306 June: Carter-Evans declines to appeal second termination, leaving lawyers Five and Six still in play.

201307 July: Short letter to Carter-Evans explaining simple steps toward a simple, mutual peace.

2014 Interlude

RGB fully expects CLC to continue this pattern of behavior indefinitely, and so maintains this record as a prudent measure of self-defense against future allegations of civil malice or criminal misconduct.

2015

2015-02 February: RGB resigns from a non-profit board and removes it from his public résumé, following objections by CLC’s allies about CatherineLynneCarter.com and implicit threats to make it a point of embarrassment for the non-profit.