Legal Opinion
Madsen v. Women's Health Center, Inc.
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided June 30, 1994No. 93-880PublishedCited by 746 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Rehnquist
Petitioners challenge the constitutionality of an injunction entered by a Florida state court which prohibits antiabortion protesters from demonstrating in certain places and in various ways outside of a health clinic that performs abortions. We hold that the establishment of a 36-foot buffer zone on a public street from which demonstrators are excluded passes muster under the First Amendment, but that several other provisions of the injunction do not.
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Respondents operate abortion clinics throughout central Florida. Petitioners and other groups and individuals are *758engaged in activities near…
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