PORTLAND FEM. HEALTH CTR. v. ADVOCATES FOR LIFE, INC.

No. 91-35512.

34 F.3d 845 (1994)

PORTLAND FEMINIST WOMEN'S HEALTH CENTER, an Oregon nonprofit corporation; Amy Aycrigg; Geri Craig, et al., Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. ADVOCATES FOR LIFE, INC., an Oregon nonprofit corporation; et al., Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Submission Withdrawn October 29, 1992.

Resubmitted August 25, 1994.

Decided September 2, 1994.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Henry Kane, Beaverton, OR, for defendants-appellants.

Stephen S. Walters and Mary K. Vander-Weele, Stoel, Rives, Boley, Jones & Grey, Portland, OR, for plaintiffs-appellees.

Before: BEEZER, NOONAN, and TROTT, Circuit Judges.


TROTT, Circuit Judge:

This case involves an attempt by an abortion clinic to identify and to use a legal remedy to prevent anti-abortion activists from disrupting the performance of the clinic's services to women. The plaintiff, Portland Feminist Women's Health Center ("PFWHC"), sued right-to-life activists under, inter alia, 42 U.S.C. §§ 1985(3) and 1986 on behalf of a class of women who sought to exercise their right to have an abortion. PFWHC claimed...

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