Court declares 92 Occupy Chicago arrests unconstitutional

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The Raw Story - David Edwards, 9/27/12

Two New York City police officers arrest a man during the "Occupy Wall Street" protests. Photo: Flickr user anjanjanj.

A judge in Cook County, Illinois on Thursday dismissed over 90 cases against Occupy Chicago activists on the grounds that they violated the First Amendment of the United States Constitution.

Judge Thomas Donnelly declared that the city’s park curfew law that was used to arrest activists in Grant Park last October was “unconstitutional both on its face and as applied and all complaints in this case are dismissed with prejudice,” according to the Chicago chapter of the National Lawyers Guild (NLG).

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