Photo from the Pray for Richard Retta Facebook page.

As part of a settlement of a civil complaint, the Department of Justice has ordered that a Maryland man stay outside of an established buffer zone around a D.C. Planned Parenthood clinic that he was known to protest, reports WTOP:

The department said Monday that the settlement permanently bars Richard A. Retta of Rockville, Md., from going inside a gated area in front of the Planned Parenthood entrance.

The settlement also bars Retta from going within an additional 18.5 foot by six foot “buffer zone” directly outside the clinic gate.

The government claimed that Retta followed patients into the clinic building and yells at them, and once physically blocked a woman from entering the clinic.

Retta, who is 80, protested outside the clinic on 16th Street NW for eight years; he claimed to have convinced 400 women not to have abortions. He was sued last year under a 1994 law that makes it unlawful to physically block someone from getting reproductive services.