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 108 STAT. 696 PUBLIC LAW 103-259—MAY 26, 1994 "(i) in an amount not exceeding $10,000 for a nonviolent physical obstruction and $15,000 for other first violations; and "(ii) in an amount not exceeding $15,000 for a nonviolent physical obstruction and $25,000 for any other subsequent violation. "(3) ACTIONS BY STATE ATTORNEYS GENERAL.— "(A) IN GENERAL.—I f the Attorney General of a State has reasonable cause to believe that any person or group of persons is being, has been, or may be injured by conduct constituting a violation of this section, such Attorney General may commence a civil action in the name of such State, as parens patriae on behalf of natural persons residing in such State, in any appropriate United States District Court. "(B) RELIEF. — In any action under subparagraph (A), the court may award appropriate relief, including temporary, preliminary or permanent injunctive relief, compensatory damages, and civil penedties as described in paragraph (2)(B). "(d) RULES OF CONSTRUCTION.— Nothing in this section shall be construed— "(1) to prohibit any expressive conduct (including peaceful picketing or other peaceful demonstration) protected from legal prohibition by the First Amendment to the Constitution; "(2) to create new remedies for interference with activities protected by the free speech or free exercise clauses of the First Amendment to the Constitution, occurring outside a facility, regardless of the point of view expressed, or to limit any existing legal remedies for such interference; "(3) to provide exclusive criminal penalties or civil remedies with respect to the conduct prohibited by this section, or to preempt State or local laws that may provide such penalties or remedies; or "(4) to interfere with the enforcement of State or local laws regulating the performance of abortions or other reproductive health services. "(e) DEFINITIONS. —As used in this section: "(1) FACILITY. —The term 'facility* includes a hospital, clinic, physician's ofiB.ce, or other facility that provides reproductive health services, and includes the building or structure in which the facility is located. "(2) INTERFERE WITH.—The term 'interfere with' means to restrict a person's freedom of movement. "(3) INTIMIDATE.— The term 'intimidate' means to place a person in reasonable apprehension of bodily harm to him- or herself or to Einother. "(4) PHYSICAL OBSTRUCTION.— The term 'physical obstruction' means rendering impassable ingress to or egress from a facility that provides reproductive health services or to or from a place of religious worship, or rendering passage to or from such a facility or place of religious worship unreasonably difficult or hazardous. "(5) REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH SERVICES. — The term 'reproductive health services' meeins reproductive health services provided in a hospital, clinic, physician's office, or other facility, and includes medical, surgical, counselling or referral services

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