The Supreme Court on Friday revived a Mississippi street preacher's lawsuit challenging a city protest ordinance under which he was previously convicted, making it easier for individuals to contest laws they were found to have violated.

Gabriel Olivier, a Christian evangelist, had been arrested for violating an ordinance in Brandon, Mississippi that restricts demonstrations outside an amphitheater. He was subsequently convicted under the law.

Olivier then filed a lawsuit questioning the constitutionality of the ordinance, seeking to challenge its validity in federal court. Lower courts had previously dismissed his case, but the Supreme Court's decision Friday allows his constitutional challenge to proceed.

The Court's ruling establishes a precedent that could make it easier for people who have been convicted under certain laws to bring constitutional challenges against those statutes to prevent future prosecutions. The decision addresses the intersection of criminal convictions and subsequent civil rights lawsuits.

The case centers on Olivier's argument that the Brandon ordinance violates constitutional protections, though the Supreme Court's Friday action dealt with procedural questions about his ability to bring the challenge rather than the underlying constitutional merits of the ordinance itself.