Nevertheless, in 2010, they decided to lower their ambitions and backed a proposal in the Washington Legislature requiring surrender only after a full protective order was issued, restraining threatening conduct against family members or children of family members.
Under the proposed law, groups would need a permit to operate, and could be banned by the government on "national security" grounds, while pro-asylum activists could be issued restraining orders to prevent them from traveling near Hungary's borders.
Two federal courts, including one this week in Louisiana, have refused to issue restraining orders halting the implementation of the new rules.
Criticism has centered on the fact that the power to issue restraining orders would be transferred from the judiciary to local administrative authorities, whose ability to remain impartial is questioned by many women's groups.
Police and courts can issue restraining orders under the 1997 Protection from Harassment Act, but it is so widely drawn that it covers all kinds of harassment, including bullying at work.
Arthur Ochs Sulzberger, the New York Times publisher at the time, decided to publish the "Pentagon Papers," as the documents came to be called, even though President Richard Nixon tried to issue restraining orders against the newspaper.
Similarly, there are also expected to be a challenges to various aspects of the country's stringent libel laws, and to laws setting out when it is appropriate for judges to issue restraining orders on newspapers.
Traditionally, magistrates have been reluctant to issue restraining orders on the sheer say-so of a spouse who claims to have been threatened or beaten – it has been traditional to require some kind of legal procedure to determine the validity of such claims, and that is the problem.
This seemed like progress for communities without conventional courts readily available to issue restraining orders, etc.
Fear: Domestic Violence Laws Are Stacked Against Men Reality Check: In domestic violence situations, all states offer their courts the ability to issue restraining orders that restrict contact between abusers and victims.
