PORT ANGELES. The court record on Anthony Tomashefsky of Sequim is not a single ruling but a chronology. Drawn from documents in two Clallam County Superior Court cases , Tomashefsky v. Mavy, No. 23-2-00372-05, and Mavy v. Tomashefsky, No. 25-2-00595-05, here is that chronology, date by date.
July 28, 2023. After a full hearing at which both men appeared by video with their lawyers, the court denied Tomashefsky's petition for an anti-harassment protection order against Benjamin Mavy. The finding: "A preponderance of the evidence does not support issuing any type of protection order that this court has authority to issue." The petition was dismissed on the merits. Judicial officer Simon Barnhart signed the order at 11:01 that morning.
July 30, 2025. Eight days before Mavy's petition was filed, according to a timeline published on Tomashefsky's own website, Tomashefsky reported Mavy to the Wyoming Department of Game and Fish over statements on a hunting-license application. The court record later showed this was no single report: Commissioner Brian Parker wrote that he reviewed "some 55 pages of emails between Respondent and the Wyoming Game and Fish Department, as well as other Lincoln County, Wyoming government officials," containing "extensive descriptions of Petitioner's activities, movements, location, and travel plans."
August 7, 2025. Mavy filed a petition seeking a stalking and anti-harassment protection order in Clallam County District Court.
August 8, 2025. The district court transferred the matter to Superior Court, which was already exercising jurisdiction over a proceeding involving the parties. The public docket lists Judge Elizabeth A. Stanley as the assigned judge.
August 12, 2025. Both men appeared on the Superior Court's ex parte calendar. The court gave Tomashefsky "an opportunity to say why an order should not issue," per Judge W. Brent Basden's later opinion, then issued a temporary protection order and set the full hearing for August 26 at 9:30 a.m.
August 13, 2025. Tomashefsky filed a motion for revision of the temporary order and scheduled his own hearing for August 29. The same day, the court denied the motion and struck the August 29 hearing "as being improperly scheduled under local court rule."
August 22, 2025. Tomashefsky emailed the court administrator and Mavy, stating his intent to file a motion under Washington's Uniform Public Expression Protection Act and declaring the August 26 hearing "must be stricken."
August 25, 2025. At the judge's direction, the court administrator informed Tomashefsky "that an email to the Court Administrator does not change court dates," and that he could appear and request a continuance.
August 26, 2025. The hearing proceeded. "Petitioner appeared for that hearing, but Respondent did not," Basden's opinion records. Commissioner Parker granted the protection order. The order bars Tomashefsky from contacting Mavy, monitoring or surveilling him, or coming within 1,000 feet of him, his home, his workplace, or his vehicle. It took effect immediately; the listed end date is August 26, 2027.
August 27, 2025. Parker filed a memorandum opinion rejecting the UPEPA theory, "[t]he UPEPA clearly states it doesn't apply to protection orders", and finding that Tomashefsky's conduct "as a whole ... constitute[s] harassment." Tomashefsky filed a motion for revision.
September 8, 2025. Tomashefsky changed course and moved for reconsideration of the commissioner's August 26 and 27 orders; Basden dismissed the pending revision motion as premature, noting a future one could be filed.
September 15, 2025. Parker denied the motion for reconsideration.
September 25, 2025. Tomashefsky filed a second motion for revision.
October 21, 2025. Judge Basden filed a five-page memorandum opinion denying the motion on every ground: "The court denies the motion for revision and the protection order remains in place." On his website, Tomashefsky has written that he appealed the order to the Washington Court of Appeals, Division Two, that same day. No stay of the order appears in the materials reviewed for this article; the order's listed end date stands.
December 26, 2025. Two months after Basden's ruling, the domain olympicherald.com was registered, RDAP records show.
January 2026. The site's first articles appeared. A post-by-post census shows 425 articles to date: 109 about Judge Basden, 58 about Commissioner Parker, 17 about Mavy, and a dozen more about two psychologists involved in family-court matters, six about one, five about the other. In articles on the site, Tomashefsky has also written that Judge Basden filed a notice of recusal in the case in February 2026, with a visiting judge later assigned; TROH cites those later procedural claims only as his own account.
August 26, 2027. The date the protection order expires, two years after it was granted in a courtroom its subject chose not to enter.
Every date in this timeline comes from a filed court document, a public docket, a domain registration record, or a statement on Tomashefsky's own website attributed as such. The documents are public. The chronology is the story.
This article relies on public court records and public complaints. TROH welcomes a response from Mr. Tomashefsky and will publish it in full.