Fifth District Judge G. Rand Beacham set a hearing for July 23 on the action sought by Willie Jessop.
Jessop, a member of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, filed the request against private investigator Sam Brower on Tuesday.
He claims Brower has a "long history of following and photographing FLDS members," often leading to confrontations, and has engaged in a "pattern of continual harassment" that includes making disparaging comments about Jessop to the media.
Jessop wants Brower and anyone working for him kept 500 feet away from his homes and offices in Hildale, Canaan Gap, Cedar City and San Angelo, Texas.
Brower declined to comment to The Salt Lake Tribune about the matter on Wednesday.
Brower has helped develop cases against the FLDS over the past four years, working for attorneys Roger Hoole and Greg Hoole, who are brothers.
Jessop claims Brower took a television news crew to Hildale on June 7 and scaled a 6-foot-high wall in order to take pictures of Jessop's home and yard. On that same day, Brower took the news crew to Jessop's ranch in Canaan Gap and, ignoring "no trespassing" signs and locked gates, again began photographing children and other family members, it said.
The intrusions have frightened Jessop's children and invaded the family's expectation of privacy, according to the court filing.
