US EditionSupreme Court to consider reviving Mississippi evangelist’s challenge to protest ordinance
BRANDON, MISSISSIPPI, JUL 3 – The Supreme Court will decide if city restrictions on Olivier's public evangelizing violate First Amendment free speech and religious rights, impacting similar cases nationwide.
- The U.S. Supreme Court announced on Thursday it will consider reviving Gabriel Olivier's lawsuit after he was barred from evangelizing outside a Mississippi amphitheater.
- Olivier argues that the city's limitations infringed upon his rights to practice his faith and express himself freely, but because lower courts required him to file under habeas corpus—a remedy available only to those imprisoned—he has been caught in a legal deadlock.
- The ordinance bars protests close to the amphitheater while permitting preaching within a specified area for demonstrations; the city maintains that these measures target disruptions caused by offensive remarks made by Olivier and his group.
- Kelly Shackelford, president of First Liberty Institute, emphasized that all individuals in the United States are entitled to express themselves freely under the First Amendment and deserve the opportunity to have their legal cases heard; Olivier's legal team asserts that his expression at the time was both civil and constitutionally protected.
- The Supreme Court will decide whether these rights apply to all Americans, with oral arguments expected in the fall, potentially affecting free speech protections nationwide.
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