You are referring to Marcavage v. Rendell, a lawsuit brought by Michael Marcavage, founder and director of a Philadelphia-based evangelical group called Repent America, a group that divides people in this world into two groups:  Christians and those going to everlasting hell.  Marcavage and ten other Repent America members were arrested in Philadelphia on October 10, 2004, after protesting at Outfest 2004, Philadelphia's National Coming Out Day celebration.  The eleven were charged with disorderly conduct, failure to disperse, and obstructing a highway, not for preaching as they later claimed, but for allegedly taunting some of the 32,000 Outfest 2004 attendees and disrupting that celebration; and, Marcavage was also charged with commiting a hate crime (called “ethnic intimidation”) under Pennsylvania’s strangely (and inaccurately) named hate crime law, the Ethnic Intimidation Statute.  Common Pleas Court Judge Pamela Dembe ruled the criminal case against the defendants had no merit and dismissed the charges against them. Then, in 2005 Marcavage filed Marcavage v. Rendell, claiming that Pennsylvania lawmakers violated procedure by attaching the hate crimes amendment—one that protected persons in the Keystone state based on disabilty and sexual orientation—to an agricultural crop and livestock bill.  On November 15, 2007, in a 4-1 vote, a Pennsylvania court ruled that the expanded hate crimes law indeed was unconstitutional because the agricultrual bill it was tied to was used essentially to enact the hate crimes amendment.  So, Marcavage v. Rendell had nothing to do with challenging a hate crime law because of a supposed constitutional violation of free speech.