Todays knocking on your door at 3am and setting fire to your car WTF is from the Supreme Court, which in a 7-2 decision has found that if the court awards you a restraining order on someone the local government is under no obligation to protect you from that someone. Which begs the question, what's the point of a restraining order?
http://www.scotusblog.com/movabletype/archives/2005/06/access_to_cable.html#restrainme
