Court Denies Preliminary Injunction in Suit Over City’s Clinic Buffer Zone Ordinance

Anti-abortion advocates seeking to protest and to counsel women entering and leaving abortion clinics aren’t entitled to an injunction based on their claim that a city ordinance establishing buffer zones around health-care facilities violates their free speech rights, a federal district court ruled March 6 (Bruni v. City of Pittsburgh, 2015 BL 61133, W.D. Pa., 2:14-cv-01197-CB, 3/6/15).

The U.S. District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania found that the plaintiffs, individuals who sought to counsel women seeking abortions, failed to show that they were likely to prevail on the merits of their claim that a Pittsburgh ...