The U.S. Supreme Court said Thursday it will hear a case that seeks to revive a street evangelist’s lawsuit challenging a protest ordinance in Brandon, Mississippi. The ordinance confines demonstrations to a designated area and was invoked after the preacher used a loudspeaker to denounce patrons outside a city amphitheater. Lower courts threw out the evangelist’s civil-rights suit on the ground that his earlier conviction under the ordinance barred him from seeking damages. The justices will now consider whether that rule is consistent with First Amendment protections and federal civil-rights law, a question that could shape how cities nationwide craft and enforce protest restrictions.