Lloyd Bowein

A Collier judge indicated Friday she was leaning toward granting La Playa Beach and Golf Resort a temporary restraining order to prevent a neighbor from blasting loud music during weddings and other events.

Circuit Judge Lauren Brodie said she’d rule within two weeks, but gave the attorney for neighbor Lloyd Bowein until next Friday to submit any case law that supports Bowein’s contention that he also should be able to restrain La Playa from disrupting his peaceful life on Gulf Shore Drive.

“I believe most of the elements have been met,” Brodie said of having to rule whether the hotel would suffer irreparable harm if she didn’t grant the order before a trial, whether there was a public interest, whether La Playa would likely win its lawsuit against Bowein, and that the hotel had no other legal remedy.

The Daily News published a story about the case in June after La Playa filed a lawsuit against Bowein. The resort alleges he played loud, offensive rap music to disrupt weddings and other events, turned it up when they asked him to turn it down, turned it off when Collier sheriff’s deputies arrived and back on when they left, causing brides to burst into tears and the hotel to lose business. The lawsuit said they no longer accept events with amplified music.

They listed eight events, mostly weddings from August 2011 to May 23, and said restraining orders, cease-and-desist letters, meetings and offers of champagne did nothing to stop Bowein, a lawyer and owner of Randy’s Fish Market.