Civil Litigation
Nov. 3, 2021
Federal judge temporary halts ban on vaccine protests
“In the court’s view, plaintiff is very likely to succeed in showing that SB 742 is content based,” U.S. District Judge Dale A. Drozd wrote. “By its terms, SB 742 prohibits a person from knowingly approaching another person for the purpose of engaging in ‘oral protest’ — unless that oral protest is about a labor dispute.”
A federal judge has granted a partial temporary restraining order to an anti-abortion group challenging a law barring protests at vaccine sites.
U.S. District Judge Dale A. Drozd in Fresno blocked enforcement of the law until a future hearing, agreeing with the plaintiffs' that it appears to prohibit some types of protest speech and not others.
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