Opinion ID: 1698486
Heading Depth: 3
Heading Rank: 2

Heading: Content-neutral

Text: Operation Rescue claims that the time, place, and manner restrictions at issue here are content-based and thus subject to the more stringent test noted above in Perry. We disagree. The restrictions regulate when, where, and how Operation Rescue may speak, not what it may say. The restrictions make no mention whatsoever of abortion or any other political or social issue; they address only the volume, timing, location, and violent or harassing nature of Operation Rescue's expressive activity. In fact, the injunction could apply equally to protests which supported abortion as well as to protests which opposed abortion, or indeed, to protests supporting or opposing any other cause. It is true that this injunction applies only to [these particular abortion opponents], but that is because it is only those persons who the Center has proved have created and are continuing to create a threat of violence and intimidation. Northeast Women's Center, Inc. v. McMonagle, 939 F.2d 57, 63 (3rd Cir.1991). Because the restrictions are content-neutral, we proceed to decide whether they are narrowly-tailored to serve a significant government interest, and leave open ample alternative channels of communication. Perry, 460 U.S. at 45, 103 S.Ct. at 955.