antiabortionists sue because they couldn't literally get in face of clinic patients

Judge tosses anti-abortion activists' claims
He finds no evidence police, women's clinic conspired to silence protesters
http://www.mcall.com/news/local/allentown/mc-allentown-pa-abortion-protest-20110325,0,4485225.story

A federal judge has dismissed civil rights claims by anti-abortion protesters who said Allentown police and the Allentown Women's Center violated their First Amendment rights by shielding patients entering the clinic.

U.S. District Judge James Knoll Gardner's 41-page opinion dismisses each of the protesters claims against the city and its police department, and all but one of their claims against the women's center and its director, Jennifer Boulanger.

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In his March 17 opinion, Gardner found the protesters failed to show that city police conspired with women's center employees to prevent the protesters from delivering their message to patients, a necessary element of a civil rights claim.

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Gardner also found that the center's practice of using escorts to form a human shield and hold plastic tarps around patients entering the clinic was not a violation of the protesters' freedom of expression.