Murray v. Lawson

The opinion of the Court was delivered by

CLIFFORD, J.

These cases, argued together before this Court, require a balance between the free-speech rights of anti-abortion protestors and the residential-privacy interests of two doctors and their families. In Murray v. Lawson, the Appellate Division upheld a permanent injunction by the Chancery Division prohibiting defendants, anti-abortion protestors, from picketing within 300 feet of plaintiffs’ residence. 264 N.J.Super. 17, 624 A.2d 3 (1993). In Boffard, v. Barnes, the same panel of the Appellate Division upheld a Chancery Division restriction…