Opinion ID: 1698486
Heading Depth: 3
Heading Rank: 5

Heading: Alternative means of communication

Text: As its last point under the Perry standard, Operation Rescue claims that the restrictions do not leave open ample alternative means of communication. We point out, however, that Operation Rescue may at all times engage in expressive activity in the vicinity of the Clinic. In fact, Operation Rescue is entirely free to do the following at any time on any day: place an unrestricted number of picketers along the south edge of Dixie Way and both the east and west edge of U.S. 1; engage in singing, chanting, and whistling, as long as it cannot be heard inside the Clinic during the designated times; engage in sidewalk counseling of any Clinic patient who invites contact outside the five-foot and thirty-six-foot buffer zones; and picket in the neighborhoods of Clinic workers outside the three-hundred-foot buffer zone. Dixie Way is only twenty-one feet wide in the area of the Clinic and for all practical purposes Operation Rescue will be able to convey its message just as effectively from the south side of the road as the north. In fact, on the south side, its picketers will be in closer proximity to all eastbound traffic and will thus be better-positioned to deliver their message to those drivers and passengers. The only thing Operation Rescue will be unable to do from the south side that it could otherwise do from the north is block ingress to and egress from the Clinic. The amended injunction thus leaves open ample alternative means of communication for those who object to the Clinic's activities.