Frisby+v.+Shultz

 //Shannen Cypher and Nick Bursick// = **CASE: Frisby V. Schultz YEAR: 1988 ** =

 

**__FACTS/BACKGROUND__ **
 **__MAJOR LAW OR RIGHTS DISCUSSED __ ** **__DECISION__ **
 * //Protesters, protested outside a house of a doctor who performed abortions//
 * //Neighbors complained about protesters//
 * //Happened in Brookfield Wisconsin//
 * //11 to 40 people protested outside of the doctors house 6 different occasions//
 * //Protesters picketed outside the doctors house ranging from a hour to a hour in a half//
 * //First ordnance a total ban except labor picketing – May 7th 1985//
 * //Than banned it completely ( no picketing)//
 * //Caused emotional disturbance and distress to the people and harassing the people, and against public safety.//
 * //Sandra Schultz was a school teacher, who was one of the main picketers.//
 * //Russel Frisby was the supervisor of the town board//
 * __ISSUE/MAJOR QUESTION__**
 * //Claimed that the ordinance violated their first amendment rights of speech.//
 * //Free speech//
 * //Claimed that the ordinance violated their first amendment rights of speech.//
 * //Yes agreed, the law banning picketing was constitutional under the first amendment.//
 * //You cant picket in a certain house but you can in a region.//

__**REASONING**__
 * //The type of picketers by the Brookfield ordinance generally do not seek to disseminate a message to the general public, but to intrude upon the targeted resident, and to do so in an offensive way. Moreover, even if some such picketing has a broader communicative purpose, their activity nonetheless inherently and offensively intrudes on residential privacy.//

__**IMPACT **__ **__DISSENTING ARGUMENT__ ** =[|To get more information: CLICK HERE]=
 * //Helped teach people about the quality of expression.//
 * //It taught the town of Brookfield about how privacy should not be invaded of specific individuals.//
 * //Was a 6-3 vote.//
 * //Justice Brennan and Justice Marshall say the ordinance before us absolutely prohibits picketing “before or about” any residence in the town of Brookfield//
 * //Justice Stevens believes that citizens should have a right to picket up and down the streets and that they should of been aloud to picket on a sidewalk since it is public property.//
 * //There were no evidence that the picketers were targeting a specific person//