“Indisputably viewpoint-based”
Attorneys for Rev. Walter Hoye, the Baptist minister sentenced in March to 30 days in jail for violating Oakland’s so-called “bubble ordinance,” have filed a motion in federal court asking a judge to declare the law under which Hoye was convicted unconstitutional.
Lawyers with Life Legal Defense Foundation, which represents Hoye, filed a motion for summary judgment in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California in San Francisco last month asking a judge to invalidate the Oakland ordinance because it amounts to unconstitutional restriction of a particular viewpoint, in this case a pro-life message.
“Oakland allows pro-abortion clinic escorts to approach women and speak to them without limitation, while prohibiting pro-lifers from doing the same,” said the Foundation in a news release. “LLDF is asking the court to declare the ordinance unconstitutional and enjoin its enforcement.”
Lawyers with Life Legal Defense Foundation, which represents Hoye, filed a motion for summary judgment in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California in San Francisco last month asking a judge to invalidate the Oakland ordinance because it amounts to unconstitutional restriction of a particular viewpoint, in this case a pro-life message.“Oakland allows pro-abortion clinic escorts to approach women and speak to them without limitation, while prohibiting pro-lifers from doing the same,” said the Foundation in a news release. “LLDF is asking the court to declare the ordinance unconstitutional and enjoin its enforcement.”
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