We Just Filed An Amicus Brief Protecting Free Speech In New Hampshire
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The City cannot obtain the injunctions it has requested under Part I, Article 22 and the First Amendment, or Part I, Article 8 of the New Hampshire Constitution. The City requested three injunctions: an access injunction and a videotaping injunction that both would place 30-foot floating buffer zones around all of the City’s current and future PEOs; and a speech injunction.
These floating buffer zones are unconstitutional. See Schenck v. Pro Choice Network of Western, N.Y., 519 U.S. 357, 375-380 (1997) (invalidating 15-foot floating buffer zone placed around individuals attempting to access or leave a physical locality under the First Amendment because it burdened substantially more speech than was necessary to further the state’s interests in “protecting public safety and order, promoting the free flow of traffic on streets and sidewalks, protecting property rights,