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Hill v. Colorado | 530 U.S. 703 (2000))

In response to abortion opponents’ protests at abortion clinics, some states have enacted laws requiring buffer zones around clinic entrances, which prevent opponents from engaging in expressive activity within the buffer zones. How do such buffer zones fare under the First Amendment? The United States Supreme Court addressed this issue in Hill versus Colorado.

Colorado enacted a statute making it illegal for any person within one-hundred feet of a health care facility’s entrance to knowingly go within eight feet of another person without that person’s consent, to distribute literature, display a sign, or orally communicate in a manner that protests, educates, or counsels that person. Leila Hill and two other women who regularly counseled women entering abortion clinics about alternatives filed a state court lawsuit seeking an injunction against the statute as a violation of the First Amendment. The trial court held that the statute was constitutional and denied their request. Both the Colorado Court of Appeals and Colorado Supreme Court upheld the state statute. Hill and the other two women successfully petitioned the United States Supreme Court to review their case.

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