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Billiard balls around the place trying to enforce this and it's unenforceable. >> exactly. our floating buffer zone didn't work. this particular statute was a carefully crafted way in which we could balance all the interests involved. it worked. it was effective. it was predictable. people knew where they could go, what they could do. striking down this law seems to me now to say, you have to wait until someone's hurt or someone's been interfered with and we will do that. we are prepared to go back to the legislature. we're prepared to do whatever we need to do to make sure women in massachuse...

speech. >> there was a previous case, colorado case law in 2000 which basically made this 100-foot bubble around -- in that zone you couldn't get closer than eight feet to people to talk to them or to counsel them or to tell them you thought they were doing something horrific. the court upheld that. they struck down your law. your -- in the massachusetts record, you have police testimony saying we tried to do the eight-foot thing, but we're ending up, like, chasing billiard balls around the place trying to enforce this and it's unenforceable. >> exactly. our floating buffer zone didn't work...