Article: Abortion protestors may have to back up; Larger clinic buffer zone law proposed.(NEWS)

Article: ATTORNEY GENERAL COAKLEY DEFENDS CONSTITUTIONALITY OF ...
US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  February 28, 2009 ;     679 words ... ... First Circuit to defend the Commonwealth's buffer zone law on Wednesday. The buffer zone statue protects public safety and patient access ... healthcare facilities by creating a 35-foot buffer zone around clinic entrances and driveways. "Massachusetts ...

Article: FIRST CIRCUIT APPEALS COURT UPHOLDS BUFFER ZONE ...
US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  July 11, 2009 ;     696 words ... ... constitutionality of the Commonwealth's buffer zone law. That statute creates a 35 ... The court agreed that the buffer zone law does not violate the First Amendment ... to defend the Commonwealth's buffer zone law. The appeal was argued to the ...

Article: ATTORNEY GENERAL COAKLEY OPPOSES CHALLENGE TO BUFFER ...
US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  February 20, 2008 ;     700+ words ... ... challenge to the Commonwealth's new buffer zone law. The new law creates a fixed, 35-foot buffer zone in public ways and sidewalks around entrances ... in public forums. "Massachusetts' buffer zone statute is an important change to the ...

Article: FEDERAL COURT RULES BUFFER ZONE LAW ...
US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  August 25, 2008 ;     700+ words ... ... that the Commonwealth's new buffer zone law is constitutional on its face ... law creates a fixed, 35-foot buffer zone in public ways and sidewalks around ... and even murders. The previous buffer zone statute was a step in the right ...

Article: CLINIC BUFFER ZONE LAW UPHELD US COURT ...
The Boston Globe;  October 13, 2004 ;     673 words ... ... second ruling reaffirming the buffer zone law, the US Court of Appeals for ... s order, concluding that the buffer zone would probably pass constitutional ... debate if they have violated the buffer zone law and that there was no pattern ...

Article: AT ABORTION CLINICS, FRICTION RESURFACES BUFFER ...
The Boston Globe;  December 17, 2000 ;     700+ words ... ... The fate of the short- lived buffer zone, a law meant to shield patients ... when it took effect Nov. 10, the buffer zone law was hailed by abortion rights activists ... protesters. For now, the fate of the buffer zone remains up in the air. On Dec ...

Article: Abortion clinic buffer zone law ...
The Boston Herald;  May 9, 2001 ;     414 words ... ... judges to dump the state's clinic buffer-zone law yesterday, arguing the law unfairly ... fatally flawed." He argued the buffer zone tramples on the First Amendment ... panel. The law creates a 6-foot buffer zone around a woman while she enters ...