HILL v. THOMAS

No. 97SC630.

973 P.2d 1246 (1999)

Leila Jeanne HILL; Audrey Himmelmann; and Everitt W. Simpson, Jr., Petitioners, v. David J. THOMAS, in his official capacity as District Attorney for the First Judicial District of the State of Colorado; City of Lakewood, Colorado; Ken Salazar, in his official capacity as Attorney General of the State of Colorado; and the State of Colorado, Bill Owens, Governor, Respondents.

Supreme Court of Colorado, En Banc.

February 16, 1999.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Roger W. Westlund, Thornton, Colorado, The American Center for Law & Justice Jay Alan Sekulow, Lawrenceville, Georgia, James Matthew Henderson, Sr., Washington, D.C., Attorneys for Petitioners.

No appearance on behalf of David J. Thomas, District Attorney for the First Judicial District of the State of Colorado.

Ken Salazar, Attorney General, Barbara McDonnell, Chief Deputy Attorney General, Michael E. McLachlan, Solicitor General, Patricia S. Bangert, Director of Legal Policy, Carol D. Angel, Senior Assistant Attorney General, Natural Resources Section, Denver, Colorado, Attorneys for Ken Salazar and State of Colorado.

Gorsuch Kirgis L.L.C., Roger W. Noonan, Maureen Herr Juran, Denver, Colorado, Attorneys for City of Lakewood

Planned Parenthood of the Rocky Mountains, Inc., Kevin C. Paul, Denver, Colorado, Attorneys for Amici Curiae Planned Parenthood of the Rocky Mountains, Inc., and the Center for Reproductive Law & Policy, Inc.

City Attorney, Joseph N. de Raismes, Boulder, Colorado, Attorney for Amicus Curiae, City of Boulder


Justice SCOTT delivered the Opinion of the Court.

In this case we must decide whether a legislative enactment designed to protect the privacy rights of citizens entering and leaving Colorado health care facilities unduly burdens the First Amendment rights of other citizens. We conclude that it does not.

We granted certiorari in Hill v. City of Lakewood, 949 P.2d 107 (Colo...

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