Iowa will pay anti-abortion protesters’ legal bills

KCRG ^ | Dec, 3, 2019 | AP

[Morgana]

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) - The state of Iowa has agreed to pay $130,000 in legal bills for two eastern Iowa anti-abortion rights protesters who successfully challenged a portion of the state’s disorderly conduct law.

Anthony Miano and Nicholas Rolland, both of Davenport, frequently read aloud from the Bible and preach on public sidewalks outside abortion clinics. They sued Iowa Attorney General Tom Miller and Johnson County Attorney Janet Lyness last year after Miano was found in violation of a law making it a simple misdemeanor to create loud and raucous noise near residences or public buildings that cause unreasonable distress to occupants.

On Sept. 26, U.S. District Court Judge Rebecca Goodgame Ebinger found a section of the Iowa Code unconstitutionally vague because it subjects speakers to criminal punishment based on the reactions of third parties.

[Morgana]

Freepers don't have anymore on this but you know what? It's costing the city money maybe they better leave the pro lifers alone.

[Mr. N. Wolfe]

Good news!

[Retain Mike]

I think it is interesting AP will not use the name pro-life for these people, but then I shouldn’t expect that sort of common courtesy.

[Carl Vehse]

"On Sept. 26, U.S. District Court Judge Rebecca Goodgame Ebinger found a section of the Iowa Code unconstitutionally vague..."

What part of the Iowa Code was it, and when was that part of the Code passed by the state legislature and who were the legislators who voted for it, and the governor who signed it?

[jjotto]

Amended in 2011, Iowa Code § 723.4(2)