LoBiondo v. Schwartz

One of our most cherished, carefully guarded rights is freedom of speech. When exercised in the context of a protest directed to a governmental authority, it gains greater weight because the speech implicates other important principles, including our right to petition and seek redress for our grievances. Efforts, particularly by the more powerful in our society, to limit the free exercise of one’s speech are appropriately viewed with suspicion and distaste.

Equally important to our society, however, is the right of our citizens to freely access our courts, that they may there achieve a…