Jury finds Grants Pass didn’t harass anti-abortion street preachers

Verdict in federal civil trial

“If the volume is disturbing business in Planned Parenthood, that’s a violation of disorderly conduct,” attorney Robert E. Franz Jr. told jurors. Franz represented the city of Grants Pass.MLive.com

A federal jury Thursday sided with the city of Grants Pass in finding that police haven’t used Oregon’s disorderly conduct statute to quash the free speech rights of street preachers protesting abortion.

Abolish Abortion Oregon in 2020 sued Grants Pass, alleging the city had harassed its members for years with threats of arrest to chill their freedom of speech and religion.

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