Anti-abortion activists petition the courts to over
Petitions for the
By Kalvis Goldene
Here is a list of all petitions we’ Here’s a list of all the petitions Justice Samuel Alito said in his majority opinion two years This week, we highlight petitions that ask the court to consider, among other things, whether to overrule Hill.
The city of Englewood, New Jersey, passed an ordinance in 2014 that bars expressive activity of any sort in an eight-foot buffer zone outside entrances or driveways of all health care facilities. The city passed the ordinance after a series of disruptive Carbondale, like Englewood chose eight feet to The buffer zones are not centered on entrances, Carbondale’s City Council enacted their ordinance Anti-abortion organizations say their members must be The Colorado law upheld in Hill created floating eight- Indeed, Carbondale’s ordinance is essentially — and as the city council’s remarks around its enactment suggest, intentionally — a carbon copy of Colorado’s law.
Anti-abortion activists went to court to challenge both city’s ordinances. Jeryl Turco, a local resident in Eng And after Carbondale enacted its ordinance, Missouri-based nonprofit Coalition Life asked a federal district court in Illinois to suspend it, contending that the city had made it nearly impossible for its members to travel to the city and speak to people outside its two largest abortion clinics, both located within 100 feet of busy streets and highways.
In contrast to the unruly anti-abortion demonstrations that inspired the Englewood law, both Turco and the members of Coalition Life describe their efforts as “sidewalk counseling,” a practice focused on individual, one-on-one conversation, rather than large-scale picketing or protest.
Federal district courts ultimately rebuffed the challenges to both cities’ ordinances. The U.S. Courts of Appeals of The challengers argue that it is time for the The time has come, the challengers argue, for the justices to jettison Hill and make clear that ordinances like those in Englewood and Carbondale are unconstitutional.
A list of this week’s featured petitions is below:
Turco v. City of Englewood, New Jersey
23-1189
Issues
: (1) Whether the City of Englewood’s speech-free buffer zones, including zones outside an abortion clinic, violate the First Amendment; and (2) whether the Supreme Court should overrule Hill v. Colorado.
United States v. Brewbaker
23-1365
Issue
: Whether the existence of a vertical relationship between competing bidders precluded the application of Section 1 of the Sherman Act’s established per se rule against horizontal bid-rigging to respondent’s conduct.
Coalition Life v. City of Carbondale, Illinois
24-57
Issue: Whether the Supreme Court should overrule Hill v. Colorado.
Meadows v. Georgia
24-97
Issue: Whether the right to remove an action against “any officer … for or relating to any act under color of such office,” 28 U.S.C. SS1442(a)(1), evaporates when the officer leaves federal office.
Miller v. MBC Development, LP
24-246
Issue: Whether the Federal Arbitration Act preempts state statutes providing that a certain type of claim is exclusively subject to judicial review, when the parties to the dispute have expressly agreed to arbitrate all such claims between them.
