motion for protective order. A party’s request that the court protect it from potentially abusive action by the other party, usu. relating to discovery, as when one party seeks discovery of the other party’s trade secrets. • A court will sometimes craft a protective order to protect one party’s trade secrets by ordering that any […]
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restraining order. 1. A court order prohibiting family violence; esp., an order restricting a person from harassing, threatening, and sometimes merely contacting or approaching another specified person. • This type of order is issued most commonly in cases of domestic violence. A court may grant an ex parte restraining order in a family-violence case if
A precautionary appeal filed by counsel when the client might otherwise lose an effective right to appeal. • A protective appeal is typically filed when (1) a client’s motion to intervene has been denied, and the trial court is entering other orders that the client wants to appeal, (2) counsel has doubts about where to