From the Cleveland Scene Cleveland Municipal Court is having trouble obeying its own procedural rules — at least when it comes to Occupy Cleveland protesters. Ten Occupy members are making their way through the court after being arrested in unison on the night of October 21. All were charged with the same $100 minor misdemeanors: [...]
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Gang injunctions may prevent future OWS crimes
From Big Government A crime blotter documenting the OWS crime wave is staggering: Rapes and other sex crimes, robberies, drug and alcohol offenses, anti-semitic hate crimes, assaults on cops, and the list goes on. City and state officials can no longer afford to deal with such a scourge by shrugging their shoulders, getting out their [...]
Seven Charleston occupiers defer cases while two head to trial
From the Post & Courier Two of the 10 Occupy Charleston protesters arrested in late November on trespassing charges plan to take their cases to trial. At a hearing in Charleston municipal court Monday, Ramon Caraballo and Justin Honea chose to move forward with their cases. Seven other protesters chose to defer their cases, meaning [...]
Army of occupy lawyers file lawsuits from coast-to-coast
From The Blaze Although most major Occupy encampments have dispersed, the movement‘s organizers are trying to stay relevant through a flurry of lawsuits in which they are asserting their constitutional rights to free speech and assembly and challenging authorities’ mass arrests and use of force to break up tent cities. Lawyers representing protesters have filed [...]
Judge dismisses Occupy MN lawsuit
From MPR A district judge has dismissed OccupyMN’s lawsuit against Hennepin County. OccupyMN protesters have been demonstrating at the Hennepin County Government Center plaza since October. The group sued the county when it prohibited camping and sleeping on the plaza. Judge Richard Kyle dismissed the lawsuit, after OccupyMN and the county reached a settlement. As [...]
‘Occupation’ Is not ‘Speech’: Boston and Denver occupiers lose in court
From Big Government Suffolk County Superior Court Judge Frances McIntyre, who was prematurely panned for granting Occupy Boston a temporary reprieve (and for being a Mitt Romney appointee), delivered an elegant decision against the protestors today: Plaintiffs claim that their occupation of the site and the community they have established thereon are protected by the [...]
Minnesota occupiers claim they have a constitutional right to squat in park
From Say Anything Blog Oh, and they also believe they have a right to force the taxpayers to provide them with electricity too. The American Civil Liberties Union of Minnesota sued Hennepin County on Monday on behalf of OccupyMPLS, the protest group camping out on the Government Center Plaza in downtown Minneapolis in defiance of [...]
Meet the OWS legal ‘dream team’
Who is representing the NYC occupiers in their attempt to maintain civil unrest in the city? Meet the star-studded list of whack-job attorneys representing OWS, courtesy of the National Review Online: Michael Ratner and Margaret Ratner Kunstler, formerly spouses, are the authors of Hell No: Your Right to Dissent in the Twenty-First Century. One of [...]
NY Supreme Court Justice rules against OWS – immediately targeted by protesters
From NY Daily News Sixteen hours after baton-wielding cops cleared Occupy Wall Street protesters and their tents from Zuccotti Park early Tuesday, the demonstrators were let back in – but without any of their camping gear. Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Michael Stallman said the city can enforce “reasonable” rules to maintain safety and hygiene at [...]
Liberal activist judge issues court order allowing occupiers to reclaim Zuccotti Park
From New York Daily When the cops raided Zuccotti Park, lawyers for Occupy Wall Street woke up a judge with a civil liberties background and asked for help. Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Lucy Billings signed an early-morning order temporarily barring cops from keeping protesters and tents out of Zuccotti Park. But within hours, she was [...]
Lawsuits could end occupy nuisance
From David Rivkin Online They are not what democracy looks like and are looking less and less like a serious protest movement. Nevertheless, much can be learned from the Occupy Wall Street crowd’s protracted seizure of New York’s private Zuccotti Park, similar unlawful tactics around the country and the much delayed official response. The most important [...]