McCULLEN v. COAKLEY

No. 12-1334.

708 F.3d 1 (2013)

Eleanor McCULLEN et al., Plaintiffs, Appellants, v. Martha COAKLEY et al., Defendants, Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

January 9, 2013.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mark L. Rienzi , with whom Edward C. DuMont , Todd C. Zubler , Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP, Philip D. Moran and Michael J. DePrimo , were on brief, for appellants.

William W. Porter , Assistant Attorney General, with whom Martha Coakley , Attorney General of Massachusetts, Kenneth W. Salinger and Gabrielle Viator , Assistant Attorneys General, were on brief, for appellees.

Before BOUDIN, SELYA and STAHL, Circuit Judges.


SELYA, Circuit Judge.

This case does not come to us as a stranger. At the turn of the century, the Massachusetts legislature passed a law that created fixed and floating buffer zones around abortion clinics. We rejected serial challenges to the constitutionality of that law. See McGuire v. Reilly (McGuire I), 260 F.3d 36 (1st Cir.2001) (rejecting facial challenge); McGuire v. Reilly (McGuire II), 386...

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