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1 picketing him, not picketing his neighbors. <br />1 <br />MR. MCDOWELL: That is correct. The question I <br />believe that Justice Stevens has was a question as to who the <br />4 proper audience was. Certainly, neighbors going back and forth <br />would be able to see the signs, and obviously would be an <br />audience. <br />QUESTION: Mr. McDowell, you mentioned a couple of <br />basic principles of First Amendment law when you started off. <br />9 On another one, and we just issued an opinion today that averts <br />tO to it indirectly, is that picketing is different from other <br />11 First Amendment activities. It can be intimidating. It is <br />12 different from leafleting, and it is different from pure <br />11 speech. <br />14 <br />As far as the merely informative content of letting <br />15 the neighbors know that this man is an abortionist and that you <br />16 disapprove of it, as far as that is concerned, you would <br />L7 leaflet, you could slip information under the doors of the <br />IH neighbors, and you could march around the whole neighborhood <br />19 with a sign, as counsel for the city says is permissible under <br />20 this ordinance. <br />21 But you do not want to do that. You want to <br />22 essentially hassle this doctor, to put it in the vernacular. <br />23 You want to be in front of his house and bring home to him your <br />24 displeasure with him in, maybe intimidating is not the word, <br />25 but an annoying fashion essentially. <br />31 <br />Heritage Reporting Corporation <br />(202) 628-4888 <br />