Murray v. Lawson

The opinion of the Court was delivered by

CLIFFORD, J.

In Murray v. Lawson, 136 N.J. 32, 642 A.2d 338 (1994), this Court upheld an injunction prohibiting defendants, anti-abortion protestors, from picketing within 300 feet of the residence of plaintiffs, a physician who performs abortions and the physician’s wife. We concluded that the injunction was a permissible time, place, and manner restriction on defendants’ speech. Thereafter, the United States Supreme Court announced its decision in Madsen v. Women’s Health Center, Inc., 512 U.S.-, 114 S.Ct. 2516, 129 L.Ed.2d 593 (1994), which held…