Legal Opinion

March v. Mills

Court of Appeals for the First Circuit

Decided August 8, 2017No. 16-1771PPublishedCited by 17 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

BARRON, Circuit Judge.

This appeal concerns a constitutional challenge brought by a protester who opposes abortion. He seeks to enjoin the enforcement of a provision of the Maine Civil Rights Act (“MCRA”), Me. Rev. Stat. Ann. tit. 5, § 4684-B(2), that, he contends, facially violates the First Amendment’s guarantee of the freedom of speech. 1 The challenged provision bars a person from making noise that “can be heard within a building” when such noise is made intentionally, following an order from law enforcement to cease making it, and with tjie additional “intent either: (1) [t]o jeopardize…

2Cases cited38 opinions

  1. Grayned v. City of RockfordSupreme Court of the United States · 1972
  2. Grayned v. City of RockfordSupreme Court of the United States · 1972
  3. United States v. O'BrienSupreme Court of the United States · 1968
  4. Ward v. Rock Against RacismSupreme Court of the United States · 1989
  5. Haguer v. Committee for Industrial OrganizationSupreme Court of the United States · 1939

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3Cited by17 opinions

  1. Project Veritas Action Fund v. RollinsCourt of Appeals for the First Circuit · 2020
  2. United States v. AckellCourt of Appeals for the First Circuit · 2018
  3. Nikki Bruni v. City of PittsburghCourt of Appeals for the Third Circuit · 2019
  4. McClellan v. City of AlexandriaDistrict Court, E.D. Virginia · 2019
  5. Evelyn Rivera v. Jimmy Ducharme and Ducharme Construction Management, LLCDistrict Court, D. New Hampshire · 2021

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