Timothy Thorburn v. William Austin

JOHN R. GIBSON, Circuit Judge.

Monsignor Timothy Thorburn, Pam Tabor, Dominic Pynes, and Mary Adam appeal the district court’s 1 summary judgment upholding a Lincoln, Nebraska ordinance that prohibits focused residential picketing in a defined zone. See Thorburn v. Roper, 39 F.Supp.2d 1199 (D.Neb.1999). The appellants contend that the ordinance is unconstitutional, asserting the same broad range of arguments here that they made to the district court. We affirm.

The ordinance provides:(a) It shall be unlawful for any person to engage in focused picketing in that portion of any street which abuts…