Anti-Choice Violence

American Life League v. Reno - Determined the constitutionality of the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances (FACE) Act. February 1995

City of Bangor v. Stauble - Determined whether a city ordinance that prohibited targeted residential picketing, which was enacted based on extensive evidence of intrusive picketing outside homes of abortion providers, violated the First Amendment rights of the picketers. November 1997

Edwards v. City of Santa Barbara - Determined the constitutionality under the First Amendment of a city ordinance restricting protester activity near health care facilities and houses of worship. August 1998

Hill v. Colorado - Determined the constitutionality of a Colorado statute that protects women’s access to reproductive health services by making it unlawful for an individual to knowingly come closer than eight feet to a person within 100 feet of a health care facility, without first getting that person’s consent. June 2000

Hoffman v. Hunt - Determined the constitutionality of the federal Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances law, or FACE, which prohibits obstructing ingress and egress at reproductive health facilities. September 1997

McGuire v. Reilly - Determined the Constitutionality under the First Amendment of state law that protected persons near reproductive health care facilities from unwanted approaches closer than six feet. August 2001

NOW v. Terry - Addressed the issue of contempt fines in the federal court order protecting women, doctors and clinic workers from anti-choice blockades and violence. October 1998

Planned Parenthood v. American Coalition of Life Activists - This case was brought by Planned Parenthood and four doctors against anti-choice organizations and individuals for threats under the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act (FACE) and the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act. May 2002

Schenck v. Pro-Choice Network of Western New York - Determined whether buffer zones prohibiting demonstrations and blockades around abortion clinics violated the First Amendment right to freedom of speech. February 1997