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TOWN OF WEST HARTFORD v. OPERATION RESCUE

No. 321, Docket 92-7595.

991 F.2d 1039 (1993)

TOWN OF WEST HARTFORD, Summit Women's Center West, Incorporated, Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. OPERATION RESCUE, Project Life, Inc., Connecticut Pro-Life Action Network, John Kladde, Eileen M. Haggerty, William P. Cotter, Faithful and True Roman Catholics, John Doe, Jane Doe, Massachusetts Pro-Life Action Network, Bi-State Operation Rescue Network, John Henshaw, Thomas J. Herlihy, Lawrence Dolan, Defendants, Joseph M. Scheidler, Randall A. Terry, John Charles Grant, Jean Pollock, Catherine A. Jersey, Lillian A. Loughlin, William Calvin, Hjalmar Syversen, Robert E. Cooley, Jayne C. Tuller, Dolores M. Teleski, Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided April 21, 1993.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jon L. Schoenhorn, Hartford, CT (Schoenhorn & Freeman, Pamela R. Hershinson, West Hartford, CT, on the brief), for plaintiff-appellee Summit Women's Center West, Inc.

Vincent P. McCarthy, New Milford, CT (Representing all defendants-appellants except John Kladde).

Joseph P. Secola, New Milford, CT (The Rutherford Institute of Connecticut, Inc. on the brief), (Representing all defendants-appellants except Randall Terry).

Anthony F. Slez, Jr., Westport, CT (Slez and Slez, on the brief), for amici curiae, Nat. Organization for Women, Connecticut, Nat. Lawyers' Guild, Connecticut Civil Liberties Union, Nat. Abortion Federation, Planned Parenthood Federation of America, Inc., Nat. Abortion Rights Action League, Connecticut Affiliate.

Before: KEARSE and MINER, Circuit Judges, POLLAK, District Judge.

POLLAK, District Judge:

This case is an appeal from a permanent injunction designed to prevent interference by anti-abortion protesters with access to a women's medical facility patronized by women seeking abortions and related medical services.

The events giving rise to this case were massive anti-abortion demonstrations that took place in West Hartford, Connecticut, on April 1, 1989, and June 17, 1989. The demonstrations appear to have been the handiwork...

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