联邦法官驳回司法部以FACE法案起诉抗议者案：指控未充分成立，政府可30天内补正再诉
纽瓦克10月3日——据路透社报道，新泽西州联邦地区法官凯瑟琳·海登（Katharine Hayden）驳回了特朗普政府司法部去年提起的一起诉讼：该案援引通常用于保障堕胎诊所通道的《诊所通道自由法》（FACE Act），起诉亲巴勒斯坦组织与抗议者，指其在2024年11月新泽西州一座犹太会堂外举行的活动（宗教仪式与房地产展销会）中恐吓与会者。法官认为，政府的起诉书未能充分陈述该法所要求的违法构成，因此驳回全部索赔。
此次驳回为「不带偏见的驳回」（without prejudice）：政府可在30天内提交修正起诉书重新起诉。FACE法案1994年通过，禁止以武力或物理阻挡干扰生殖健康中心或礼拜场所的人员；司法部以往多以该法起诉阻挡堕胎诊所者，民权司司长哈米特·迪隆（Harmeet Dhillon）曾表示，本案似乎是该法首次被用于指控干扰宗教礼拜。起诉书称，抗议在现场升级为暴力，被告被指殴打部分礼拜者、鸣响塑料喇叭（vuvuzela）并喊叫扰乱活动——这些均为政府一方的指控，尚未经法庭认定。
背景上，本届司法部已收紧FACE法案在堕胎相关案件中的适用，并赦免了多名此前依该法被起诉者；迪隆表示，收紧不适用于涉及礼拜场所的案件。法官此次驳回的理由是起诉书本身的陈述不足，而非对法案适用范围作最终裁定；政府是否在30天内补正再诉，将决定本案是否继续。本站仅转述法庭文件与路透社报道，不对未决指控作定性。
信息来源：路透社10月3日报道。
图片来源：Supreme Court — blmurch / CC BY 2.0 (via Openverse)
Judge Dismisses DOJ's FACE Act Suit Against Synagogue Protesters; Government May Amend Within 30 Days
NEWARK, Oct. 3 — A U.S. judge has dismissed a lawsuit the Trump administration brought last year against pro-Palestinian organizations and protesters under the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances (FACE) Act, a law traditionally used against people blocking access to abortion clinics, according to Reuters. U.S. District Judge Katharine Hayden in New Jersey said the government's complaint did not adequately plead violations of the statute.
The dismissal is without prejudice: the government can file an amended complaint within 30 days. The Justice Department sued in September 2025 over a November 2024 protest against an event at a New Jersey synagogue, billed by organizers as a spiritual service and real estate fair promoting property in Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank. The suit alleged the protest escalated into violence, with demonstrators assaulting some worshippers and using chants and vuvuzelas to disrupt the event — allegations that remain unproven. The FACE Act, passed in 1994, prohibits force and physical obstruction against people at reproductive health centers or houses of worship.
Harmeet Dhillon, head of the Justice Department's Civil Rights Division, has said the case appeared to be the first time the law was used to allege interference with religious worship; the department has separately curtailed FACE Act use in abortion-related cases and the president has pardoned several people prosecuted under it, restrictions Dhillon said do not apply to houses-of-worship cases. The judge's ground was the sufficiency of the pleading, not a final ruling on the statute's reach; whether the government amends within 30 days will decide if the case continues.
Source: Reuters, Oct. 3.
Photo: Supreme Court — blmurch / CC BY 2.0 (via Openverse)
图片来源：图：新泽西州纽瓦克 Martin Luther King Building & U.S. Courthouse（本案由新泽西联邦地区法院审理）。摄影：ajay_suresh，CC BY 4.0，来源：Wikimedia Commons
