Opinion ID: 1952455
Heading Depth: 2
Heading Rank: 4

Heading: Alternative Channels for Communication

Text: After modification, the injunction will provide adequate alternative channels of communication of defendants' message. As the Appellate Division noted, defendants' complaint about the trial court's injunction was that they will not be able to confront or intercept willing and unwilling listeners alike because staff, patients and visitors will not have to pass close to picketers in order to enter the clinic. 263 N.J. Super. at 217, 622 A. 2d 891. After modification, the injunction will allow defendants reasonable opportunity to do that, inasmuch as the modified restrictions will permit some form of expression near the clinic's entrance. Thus, the injunction will not unreasonably inhibit defendants' ability to communicate with their intended audience: defendants will be able to address staff, patients, and visitors in a civil manner in front of the Center and they may continue to pray, to carry placards, and to express themselves in other ways across the street from the Center.