MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The Wisconsin Supreme Court ruled Thursday that an order barring an anti-abortion protester from coming close to a Planned Parenthood nurse violated his First Amendment free speech rights and must be overturned.
The court is controlled 4-3 by liberals. It ruled unanimously in ordering that the injunction be dismissed.
A Trempealeu County judge in 2020 barred Brian Aish from being near nurse Nancy Kindschy, who sometimes worked in a small family planning clinic in the western Wisconsin city of Blair. Kindschy said Aish threatened her by saying bad things would happen to her or her family if she didn’t quit her job.