Northeast Women's Center, Inc. v. McMonagle

749 F. Supp. 695, 1990 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 18577, 1990 WL 177030
District Court, E.D. Pennsylvania·Decided November 1, 1990·No. 85-4845·Published·Cited by 5 cases

Opinion

ORDER MODIFYING PERMANENT INJUNCTION OF AUGUST 27, 1990

LOWELL A. REED, Jr., District Judge.

AND NOW, this 1st day of November, 1990, upon consideration of plaintiff’s motion for clarification and/or reconsideration (Document No. 399) of this Court’s permanent injunction of August 27, 1990, 745 F.Supp. 1082, the testimony and evidence presented at the hearings on plaintiff’s tenth and eleventh motions for sanctions, the testimony, evidence and arguments presented at the hearing on the motion for clarification, defendant Michael McMona-gle’s oral request at the October 19, 1990 hearing to revise paragraph A(9) of the injunction and after review of the written responses that have been filed to date, I have concluded that the language in certain paragraphs of the permanent injunction should be modified.

These modifications allow federal and local law officers to more easily coordinate their respective enforcement duties, recognize the geographic and physical layout of the sites involved, make the terms of the injunction more understandable to the plaintiff and the defendants, constrain any continuing attempt to interfere with the plaintiff’s right to be free from tortious interference in its contractual relations with its employees and staff and protect the privacy rights of plaintiff’s staff, employees, owners and agents. 1 Accordingly, IT IS ORDERED that:

1. Paragraph A(2) of this Court’s permanent injunction of August 27, 1990 is stricken, and replaced with the following language:

A. (2) At all times on all days, defendants are prohibited from entering the premises of L.P. Partnership or Comly Road Associates unless they are actually doing business with the Mellon Bank located on those premises.

2. Paragraph A(6) of this Court’s permanent injunction of August 27, 1990 is stricken, and replaced with the following language:

A. (6) During the hours 6:30 a.m. through 5:00 p.m. on Wednesdays, Fridays and Saturdays, defendants are permitted to maintain no informational table closer than five hundred (500) feet from the plaintiff’s property line as designated on the attached plot plan, except that one such table may be located on the sidewalk off the north side of the Comly Road alongside the Northeast Women’s Center, at the location marked clearly with visual devices at the point designated on the attached plot plan as Area “A,” with no more than one (1) sign attached to it displaying words of an informational, non-inflammatory and non-violent nature. Any two defendants or any two individuals selected by defendants may peacefully maintain the table and may distribute literature or speak to individuals who wish to communicate with them immediately at the table. The individuals who staff this table may not shout out or use sound amplification equipment or physically approach plaintiff’s patients or staff, but may engage in communica *697 tions consisting of conversation of a nonthreatening nature with any patient or staff person who choose to approach the table and speak to them. Should any individual decline such communication, otherwise known as “sidewalk counseling,” that person shall have the absolute right to leave or walk away, and defendants, as well as all those covered by this restraining order, shall not accompany such person, encircle, surround, harass, threaten or physically or verbally abuse those individuals who choose not to communicate with them. This communication or “sidewalk counseling” shall not limit the right of the Police Department and/or the United States Marshal to maintain public order by reasonably necessary rules and regulations as they decide are necessary at the Center.

3.Paragraph A(7) of this Court’s permanent injunction of August 27, 1990 is stricken, and replaced with the following language: 2

A. (7) At all times including the times enumerated in paragraphs A(5) & (6), the defendants, as named above, their officers, agents, servants, employees and attorneys, and all persons acting in concert or participating with, by or through them shall not congregate, demonstrate, counsel, picket, sing, chant, use sound amplification equipment, or engage in any other protest activity within five-hundred (500) feet of the outer perimeter of the property of either the L.P. Partnership or Comly Road Associates as designated on the attached plot plan, except that as many as six (6) persons may peacefully picket on the sidewalk off the north side of Comly Road alongside the Northeast Women’s Center, in two areas marked on the attached plot plan as Area “B” on both sides of the driveway. While acting as a picketer, each such person shall be clearly designated by clothing, signs or other plainly visible devices. The driveway designated on the plot plan shall be kept clear at all times for passage of vehicles and pedestrians and shall be clearly marked by plaintiff with plainly visible devices. Except as limited by this paragraph and paragraphs A(5) and A(6) above, the designated persons picketing on the sidewalk may peacefully demonstrate, speak out, sing or chant on days other than Wednesday, Friday or Saturday.

4. Paragraph A(8) of this Court’s permanent injunction of August 27, 1990 is stricken, and replaced with the following language:

A. (8) At all times on all days, the defendants are prohibited from carrying out the following acts: (a) entering upon the Northeast Women’s Center, L.P. Partnership’s or Comly Road Associates’ property, including the building, grounds, parking lots, or inner walkways unless they are actually doing business with the Mellon Bank located on those premises; (b) seizing or attempting to seize control of the plaintiff’s offices thereon; (c) blocking or attempting to block persons from entering plaintiff’s building, grounds or parking lot; (d) physically abusing or tortiously harassing persons entering, leaving, working at, or using the Center’s facilities; (e) physically assaulting, battering, encircling or surrounding plaintiff’s staff members, employees or patients; and (f) any other actions which have or reasonably might have the effect of intimidating patients, employees or staff members.

5. Paragraph A(9) of the August 27, 1990 injunction is hereby stricken, and replaced by the following language:

A. (9) At all times on all days, defendants are prohibited from congregating, picketing, patrolling, demonstrating or using bullhorns or other sound amplification equipment within twenty-five hundred (2500) feet of the residence of any of plaintiff’s employees, staff, owners or agents, or blocking or attempting to block, barricade, or in any other manner obstruct the entrances, exits or driveways of the residences of any of the *698 plaintiff's employees, staff, owners or agents and are prohibited from inhibiting or impeding or attempting to impede the free ingress or egress of persons to any street that provides the sole access to the street on which those residences are located.

6. Paragraph A(10) of the August 27, 1990 injunction is hereby stricken, and replaced by the following language:

A.

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