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ideas for response to ows ruling

Postby anna » Tue Nov 15, 2011 4:43 pm

I just read the decision passed down today from the NY Supreme Court which denied the restraining order originally passed this morning in defense of OWS. On the third page of this document is the paragraph:

"The Court is mindful of movants' First Amendment rights of freedom of speech and peaceable assembly. However, "[e]ven protected speech is not equally permissible in all places and at all times." (Snyder v Phelps, 131 S Ct 1207, 1218 [2011], quoting Cornelius v NAACP Legal Defense & Ed. Fund, Inc., 473 US 788, 799 [1985].)"

So I went to find the case Cornelius v NAACP Legal Defense & Ed. Fund, in the SAME PARAGRAPH as the quote used in an attempt to shut down ows is this quote

"Access to a nonpublic forum, however, can be restricted as long as the restrictions are "reasonable and [are] not an effort to suppress expression merely because public officials oppose the speaker's view."

I have a problem with this ruling. I think Judge Stallman needs to go back and retake a class on constitutional law. I think we need to stand up and scream at the tops of our lungs that we are not going anywhere. We will not be silenced by rulings that will only be followed when those enforcing the laws agree with them.

SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK RULING
https://s3.amazonaws.com/s3.documentcloud.org/documents/266874/ows111511.pdf

SNYDER v. PHELPS
http://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/10pdf/09-751.pdf

CORNELIUS, ACTING DIRECTOR, OFFICE OF PERSONNEL MANAGEMENT
v.
NAACP LEGAL DEFENSE AND EDUCATIONAL FUND, INC., ET AL
http://scholar.google.com/scholar_case?case=823565288601804204&hl=en&as_sdt=2,14&as_vis=1
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