PLANNED PARENTHOOD LEAGUE OF MASSACHUSETTS, INC. v. BELL


424 Mass. 573 (1997)

PLANNED PARENTHOOD LEAGUE OF MASSACHUSETTS, INC. v. BARBARA BELL.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Middlesex.

March 18, 1997.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Dwight G. Duncan (Luke Stanton with him) for the defendant.

Teresa A. Martland (Audrey C. Mark with her) for the plaintiff.

Freda K. Fishman, Assistant Attorney General, for the Attorney General, amicus curiae, submitted a brief.

Present: WILKINS, C.J., ABRAMS, LYNCH, O'CONNOR, GREANEY, FRIED, & MARSHALL, JJ.


ABRAMS, J.

The defendant, Barbara Bell, appeals from the imposition of a preliminary injunction prohibiting her from entering within fifty feet of a Brookline clinic operated by Planned Parenthood League of Massachusetts, Inc. (PPLM).1 A Superior Court judge issued the injunction after conducting two days of evidentiary hearings and concluding that Bell had "knowingly, intentionally and willfully crossed the boundary from conduct protected...

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