Abortion Protester Wins Appeal

<span style="font-weight: 400;">An anti-abortion protester is entitled to an injunction allowing him to to stand near the entrance of a Planned Parenthood clinic, the Sixth Circuit <a href="http://www.courthousenews.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/abortionprotester.pdf"><strong>ruled</strong></a>. The court found that the street connected to the abortion clinic’s parking lot is privately owned, but it “has all the trappings of a public street” and can be considered a public forum. </span>

MEMPHIS, Tenn. – An anti-abortion protester is entitled to an injunction allowing him to to stand near the entrance of a Planned Parenthood clinic in Memphis, Tennessee, and spread his “message,” the Sixth Circuit ruled . The court found that the street connected to the abortion clinic’s parking lot is privately owned, but it “has all the trappings of a public street” and can be considered a public forum protected under the First Amendment.

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