Superior Court - SMITHKLINE BEECHAM CORP., D/B/A GLAXOSMITHKLINE, ESTHER CHEUNG, MINNIE IWAMTO AND ROSEMARY LECOMPTE v. STOP HUNTINGDON ANIMAL CRUELTY

SMITHKLINE BEECHAM CORP., D/B/A GLAXOSMITHKLINE, ESTHER CHEUNG, MINNIE IWAMTO AND ROSEMARY LECOMPTE v. STOP HUNTINGDON ANIMAL CRUELTY USA, HUGS FOR PUPPIES, INC., NICHOLAS COONEY, DAVID LAMBON, CHRISTOPHER SEMICK, AMANDAH POVILITUS AND JOHN DOES 1-10 APPEAL OF: NICHOLAS COONEY No. 2034 and 2035 EDA 2007 2008 PA Super 237 Atlantic: 959 A.2d 352 Filed: 10/3/2008
	Appeal from the Order entered June 22, 2007 In the Court of Common Pleas of Philadelphia County, Civil, No. 0366 November Term, 2006
Before: ORIE MELVIN, KLEIN and FITZGERALD, JJ.
Opinion by: KLEIN, J.
Nicholas Cooney appeals from the order finding him in contempt of a November 27, 2006 injunction (“the 2006 injunction”) and the issuance of a more restrictive injunction, dated June 22, 2007 (“the 2007 injunction”). Cooney claims on appeal that the 2007 injunction is an unconstitutional restriction on his First Amendment free speech rights, that the lower court impermissibly assumed extraterritorial jurisdiction in issuing the 2007 injunction, and that the lower court erred in finding him to be in contempt of the 2006 injunction. We affirm in part and reverse in part.

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