Judge Upholds City’s Move to Block Camping at Protest Site
A state Supreme Court judge upheld the city’s right to enforce rules that bar
the Occupy Wall Street protesters from camping at Zuccotti Park.
The judge, Michael D. Stallman, wrote in his ruling Tuesday afternoon, “The
court is mindful of the movements’ First Amendment rights of freedom of speech
and peaceable assembly.” But he added, quoting from another case, “Even
protected speech is not equally permissible in all places and at all times.” He
said that the protesters “had not demonstrated that the rules adopted by the
owners of the property, concededly after the demonstrations began, are not
reasonable time place and manner restrictions permitted under the First
Amendment.”
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