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QUESTION: In your answer to Justice Stevens, you <br />2 indicated that privacy is a protectable interest insofar as the <br />state is concerned, the privacy of homes? <br />4 MR. MCDOWELL: Privacy of homes is a protecLable <br />5 interest. <br />6 <br />degree? <br />8 <br />QUESTION: Can it be protected from picketing in any <br />MR. MCDOWELL: In applying such an analysis, what has <br />to be determined is what precisely is the character of the <br />10 privacy interest. For example, in the Keith case, this Court <br />11 seemed to indicate that there were questions with respect to <br />12 the application of -- <br />13 QUESTION: Do you have a right to a quiet street? <br />14 MR. MCDOWELL: Excuse me. <br />15 QUESTION: Is there a right to a quiet street? <br />16 MR. MCDOWELL: The residential privacy interests can <br />17 extend to some extent to cover interests in tranquillity and <br />18 quiet. A noise ordinance, for example, is a proper means to <br />19 address that interest. <br />20 QUESTION: But some picketing can be regulated in <br />11 order to preserve the character of the residential <br />22 neighborhood? <br />23 MR. MCDOWELL: The abuses that go with certain <br />24 picketing could be regulated. However, an inherent <br />25 proscription of all picketing -- <br />41 <br />Heritage Reporting Corporation <br />(202) 628-4888 <br />