Judge Vacates Occupy Arrests In Chicago On 1st Amendment Grounds

Jerry Boyle, an attorney with the National Lawyers Guild and legal observer at many Occupy Chicago demonstrations and actions, talks about Cook County Circuit Judge Thomas M. Donnelly ruling that the city unfairly singled out protesters for violating an 11 p.m. curfew in Grant Park on October 2011, when police arrested hundreds of people. The judge said the curfew itself was a violation of the public's right to free assembly.

Judge throws out mass Occupy Chicago arrests as unconstitutional
City's overnight park curfew violates First Amendment, ruling says
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/ct-met-grant-park-arrests-judge-0928-20120928,0,3817020.story

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