Chinese Protesters in Queens Get No Help From Clinic Access Law

Five tables on a street in Queens, N.Y., weren’t a “place of religious worship” protected by the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act, the Second Circuit said Thursday.

FACEA makes it illegal to intentionally interfere with a person exercising their religion at a place of religious worship, the opinion by Judge Susan L. Carney said. A place of religious worship is “anywhere that religious adherents collectively recognize or religious leadership designates as a space primarily to gather for or hold religious worship activities,” it said.

Falun Gong is a modern spiritual practice that exhorts its members to become their ...