Breaking News Alert
The New York Times
Tuesday, November 15, 2011 -- 4:58
PM EST
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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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