california is throwing dolly parton a holiday on friday. on tuesday her estate went to court against the nephew who announced her death.

via ABC News, Newsweek and TMZ, which broke it, with the holiday from Gov. Gavin Newsom's office.

Friday is September 25, which you may read as 9/25, which California now reads as 9 to 5. Gov. Gavin Newsom signed SB 931 on Sunday making it Dolly Parton Day, the first state to do it, and dozens of cities are doing the same. "We could all afford to live a little more like Dolly," Newsom said. "Be kind, be humble, and have some fun."

Her estate is not currently taking that advice.

what the restraining order says

On Tuesday, She's Alive, the company that runs Parton's businesses, and her longtime manager Danny Nozell asked Davidson County Chancery Court in Nashville for a temporary restraining order against Bryan Seaver, according to ABC News. Seaver is Parton's nephew. He ran her security for close to 20 years, ABC reported, and on August 25 he was the one who announced her death, in a video on Instagram, per Newsweek.

The filing, as reported by ABC News and by Newsweek, which says it reviewed the court documents, accuses him of "an obscene, deliberate and escalating campaign of threats," alleges he threatened to "destroy the entire brand" unless he was paid, and quotes him telling a member of the legal team: "I'm not an entertainment person. I'm a killer." TMZ, which had the documents first, quotes another line from the filing: "All I do is warfare." Nozell fired him on September 15, according to TMZ.

To be clear about where this stands: some outlets have reported the order as granted. ABC, TMZ, Newsweek and The National News Desk, which reviewed the filings, all describe it as a request, and as of Wednesday afternoon none of them reports a ruling or a hearing date.

his side of it

Seaver denies making threats. He told ABC News the filing is "spurious and simply a publicity stunt," and that the "killer" line has an origin story: his aunt, he said, jokingly called him "her killer" around camp. Also, per ABC, "baby boy ninja." He told TMZ, as Newsweek reported, that "a lot of these messages are two guys having rage talk and crying on the phone together while we were grieving."

So that is where we are, less than a month out. The woman who wrote "Jolene," whose management company is literally called She's Alive, is at the center of a court filing about a man who says the word "killer" was her pet name for him.

Meanwhile the gays are simply going to do Friday properly. In West Hollywood, the Los Angeles Blade reports, Micky's has Dolly drag on the bill and Gym Bar is screening 9 to 5 all day. Nobody at Gym Bar has filed anything.