A federal appeals court has thrown out a ruling that found an Englewood ordinance designed to deter “sidewalk counseling” of women entering an abortion clinic is unconstitutional.

The U.S. district court failed to adequately consider whether Englewood’s restrictions on access to a zone around the clinic entrance imposed a burden on speech rights of people seeking to counsel clinic patients as they entered the building, the appeals court said Monday. The district court also erroneously concluded in 2017 that Englewood’s law was overbroad and that it failed to consider less-restrictive means of regulating speech before it enacted the buffer zone law, the appeals court said.