Pro-Life Amicus Brief in Georgia Adult-Entertainment Case

First Amendment Scholars' brief supports the cert petition I filed in Georgia Ass'n of Club Executives v. Georgia .

The brief was filed by Secular Pro-Life , Progressive Anti-Abortion Uprising, and five law professors.

The state's brief is due in a month .

In Hill v. Colorado , 530 U.S. 703 ( 2000 ), this Court wrongly upheld a Colorado statute that criminalized "knowingly approach[ing]" within eight feet of a person, without their consent, "for the purpose of.

. engaging in oral protest, education, or counseling" near the entrance of a "health-care facility" The majority treated the buffer zone like a content-neutral regulation, opining that it applies equally to used car salesmen, animal rights activists, fundraisers, environmentalists, and missionaries.

First Amendment jurisprudence reflects "a profound national commitment to the principle that debate on public issues should be uninhibited, robust, and wide-open" The "Secondary Effects Doctrine" Ties this Case to Hill v. Hill , 530 U.S. at 719 .

This Court 's use of intermediate scrutiny in Renton v. City of Renton is incompatible with current First Amendment doctrine.