Legal Opinion
Shirley Phelps-Roper v. Pete Ricketts
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Decided August 11, 2017No. 16-1902PublishedCited by 35 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
SHEPHERD, Circuit Judge.
This is another in a series of cases about the precise location of the line between the State’s interest in protecting the privacy and peace of a vulnerable audience of mourners and the picketer’s freedom to express herself under the Constitution.
Shirley Phelps-Roper and other West-boro Baptist Church (WBC) members consider military funerals to be “patriotic pep rallies” which suggest that God approves of national policies that WBC believes to be contrary to Biblical instruction. They therefore picketed such funerals in Nebraska to warn the nation and to assert their…
2Cases cited32 opinions
- New York Times Co. v. SullivanSupreme Court of the United States · 1964
- Connick Ex Rel. Parish of Orleans v. MyersSupreme Court of the United States · 1983
- United States v. SalernoSupreme Court of the United States · 1987
- Ward v. Rock Against RacismSupreme Court of the United States · 1989
- Chaplinsky v. New HampshireSupreme Court of the United States · 1942
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3Cited by35 opinions
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