Buffer zones are not just for abortion clinics. That is the message the State and Local Legal Center wants to convey to the Supreme Court as it considers McCullen v. Coakley, set for argument on Jan. 15.
The case asks whether a Massachusetts law imposing 35-foot buffer zones around abortion clinics violates the First Amendment rights of anti-abortion protesters. But local governments use similar tools in a range of settings, from a 20-foot zone that bars panhandling near ATMs in Kansas City, Mo., to a 10-foot zone that keeps animal rights protesters from disrupting circuses in Oakland.
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