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Maine’s attorney general, Janet Mills,\u00a0said Tuesday that she has sued a pro-life protester<\/a> for protesting too loudly outside a Planned Parenthood facility.<\/p>\n

Mills\u00a0filed the\u00a0lawsuit against protester\u00a0Brian Ingalls, 26, claiming Ingalls violated the state’s civil rights act\u00a0when the sound of his voice could be heard by patients inside the Portland facility last month.<\/p>\n

“While protesters have every right to say anything they want in a public area in the vicinity of a medical facility, they are not permitted to disrupt another citizen’s health care services,” said Mills.<\/p>\n

Mills’\u00a0complaint asks the court to prevent\u00a0Ingalls from coming within 50 feet of Planned Parenthood facilities and order him to pay up to $5,000 for violating the Maine Civil Rights Act.<\/p>\n

Ingalls’\u00a0attorney, Erin Kuenzig, said\u00a0the attorney general’s complaint is\u00a0a “baseless lawsuit” filed to circumvent a U.S. Supreme Court ruling about protester buffer zones.<\/p>\n

“They’re trying to claim that it’s some kind of safety concern that he was preaching the Bible on a public sidewalk,” Kuenzig said. “Just completely meritless.”<\/p>\n

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The lawsuit comes a few weeks after the city of Portland\u00a0was ordered to pay damages to pro-life protesters for violating their right to free speech<\/a> by\u00a0creating protest-free buffer zones outside abortion clinics.\u00a0The settlement, which was approved by a federal judge, said the city must pay more than $56,000 in legal fees as part of the settlement.\u00a0In 2014, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled\u00a0that similar buffer zones in Massachusetts violated free speech rights.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Maine’s attorney general, Janet Mills,\u00a0said Tuesday that she has sued a pro-life protester for protesting too loudly outside a Planned Parenthood facility. 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