Don't miss the big stories. Like us on Facebook. Â The Town of Pawlet won a preliminary injunction against Daniel Banyai in the Environmental Division of Superior Court and a neighbor got a protective order against him recently in Civil Court. Judge Thomas Durkin issued the preliminary injunction against Banyai on Jan. 21 ordering him to not hold or allow any firearms training-related activities on his property at 541 Briar Hill Road, a property commonly referred to as Slate Ridge. Pawletâs town attorney Merrill E. Bent, of the Manchester firm Woolmington, Campbell, Bent & Stasny, asked for the preliminary injunction while the court considers the larger issues of requiring unpermitted structures on the property to be removed, the imposition of fines, legal fees, and a permanent injunction.