so if i wanted to protest in front of this judge's courtroom

i wouldn't have to stand 20 feet back? of course if i DID have to stand 20 feet back IT WOULD VIOLATE MY FREEDOM OF SPEECH. like that is going to happen, being allowed to protest WITHOUT a barrier that is. the buffer law was passed because SOMEONE SET FIRE TO THE CLINIC. yet the judge sees 'no danger'. ok ok


Judge overturns West Palm's clinic buffer law
By Thomas Collins
Palm Beach Post Staff Writer
Tuesday, April 18, 2006
WEST PALM BEACH — A federal judge has ruled that a city law imposing a buffer zone on abortion protesters violates free-speech rights and has ordered the city not to enforce it.
The law — enacted in October after someone set fire to the Presidential Women's Center, the last clinic in Palm Beach County where abortions are done — created a 20-foot buffer around entrances and other public areas outside health-care facilities.
U.S. District Judge Donald Middlebrooks ruled that the city didn't prove the existence of problems that it said the law addressed: restricted patient access and a threat to public safety. Even if it had, the law is too strict, he ruled.
"Freedom of speech is rarely an issue when everyone agrees," Middlebrooks wrote. "Perhaps more than at any other place and any other time, in cases such as this, speech guaranteed by the First Amendment must be protected."
Middlebrooks ruled that the city probably would lose its case at trial, so the law cannot remain in effect until a trial takes place.
A related law prohibiting "unnecessary noise" and "amplified sound" within 100 feet of such facilities can be enforced, although Middlebrooks wrote that he found that ordinance flawed............