"In response, Brookfield Town Board enacted an ordinance restricting picketing in residential neighborhoods, except for labor picketing.The town later realized the Supreme Court had struck down a similar ordinance in "Carey v. Brown", 447 U.S. 455 (1980), as a violation of the Equal Protection Clause, of the Fourteenth Amendment since it "makes an impermissible distinction between peaceful labor picketing and other peaceful picketing."