Allred

—Appellants appeal an injunction which limits their access to patients of Dr. Edward Allred, owner and operator of Family Planning Associates Medical Group (FPAM). In particular, they object to the court’s restraining their entry onto the private parking lot of the professional center in which FPAM is located.

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Appellants have picketed FPAM for several years, but, until the present controversy, had confined themselves to the public sidewalk areas adjacent to the building in which FPAM is located. When the protest activities escalated to include the private parking lot, Allred sought an injunction.

The petition alleged the protest group was converging “in groups on the cars of plaintiff’s patients, employees and volunteers as soon as their vehicles are parked, blocking the above persons from exiting their cars.” The pickets “use physical and verbal harassment to intimidate” those attempting to reach the clinic. Patients have become “frightened and upset” and the doctor has found it necessary to “use escorts to assist patients to and from their cars.”

In its judgment granting a preliminary injunction, the court found the parking lot was a public forum under Robins v.…