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AMERICAN LIFE LEAGUE, INC. v. RENO

No. 94-1869.

47 F.3d 642 (1995)

AMERICAN LIFE LEAGUE, INCORPORATED; David G.P. Englefield; Patricia Lohman; Gerald Weymes, Reverend; Antoinette C. Cleary; Patricia Savino, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. Janet RENO; National Abortion Federation; Commonwealth Women's Clinic; Capitol Women's Center, Incorporated; George Tiller, Doctor; Susan Wicklund, Doctor; National Organization for Women, Defendants-Appellees. American Civil Liberties Union; ACLU Foundation of Virginia, Amici Curiae.

United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit.

Decided February 13, 1995.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

ARGUED: Marion Edwyn Harrison, Law Office Marion Edwyn Harrison, Falls Church, VA, for appellants. Mark I. Levy, Civ. Div., U.S. Dept. of Justice, Washington, DC; Deborah A. Ellis, NOW Legal Defense and Educ. Fund, New York City, for appellees. ON BRIEF: John Baker, Jr., Grover Joseph Rees, Daniel M. Redmond, Law Offices Marion Edwyn Harrison, Falls Church, VA, for appellants. Frank W. Hunger, Asst. Atty. Gen., Helen F. Fahey, U.S. Atty., Mark B. Stern, Jonathan R. Siegel, Civ. Div., Deval L. Patrick, Asst. Atty. Gen., William R. Yeomans, Counsel to the Asst. Atty. Gen. Civ. Rights Div., U.S. Dept. of Justice, Washington, DC; Martha F. Davis, NOW Legal Defense and Educ. Fund; Catherine Albisa, Center for Reproductive Law & Policy, New York City, for appellees. Catherine Weiss, Louise Melling, Karen Leiter, Reproductive Freedom Project, Steven R. Shapiro, American Civ. Liberties Union Foundation, New York City, Stephen B. Pershing, American Civ. Liberties Union Foundation of Virginia, Richmond, VA, for amici curiae.

Before HALL and MICHAEL, Circuit Judges, and CHAPMAN, Senior Circuit Judge.

Affirmed by published opinion. Judge MICHAEL wrote the opinion, in which Judge HALL and Senior Judge CHAPMAN joined.

OPINION

MICHAEL, Circuit Judge:

Plaintiffs, the American Life League, Inc. and five individuals, all actively opposed to abortion, appeal from a judgment upholding the validity of the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act of 1994 (the Access Act or Act), Pub.L. No. 103-259, 108 Stat. 694 (1994) (to be codified at 18 U.S.C. §...

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