The Supreme Court ruled that an activist could not protest on a highway passing through California’s Vandenberg Air Force Base. The Court did not address First Amendment issues in ruling that the base commanders maintained control of the property even when granting the public use by way of a road, school or bus stop. (Santa Maria Times, February 26, 2014, by David G. Savage, Tribune Washington Bureau)
The ruling in United States v. Apel was unanimous but allows the petitioner, John Dennis Apel, to choose to continue in a lower court with a First Amendment challenge that the Supreme Court did not address in its ruling. (SCOTUSblog, February 265, 2014, by Lyle Denniston)