Occupy New Haven scored another victory Tuesday afternoon in its battle to remain on the Green — a federal judge extended a restraining order preventing the city from removing the protest camp.
Norm Pattis, attorney for Occupy announced that news Tuesday following a telephone conference with city lawyers and federal judge Mark Kravitz.
Kravitz has decided that the city will not be allowed to remove the five-month-old encampment for at least another 10 days.
Meanwhile, a scheduled hearing on the matter will go forward at 1 p.m. Wednesday in federal court on Church Street.
The Occupy New Haven camp is the last remaining in New England of those that erupted last year as part of the Occupy Wall Street protest movement. The city has been trying to remove the camp for weeks now, while occupiers have been fighting those attempts.
Occupiers won a temporary victory against the city on March 14 when a federal judge issued a 14-day restraining order preventing the city from removing the camp. Tuesday’s ruling by Judge Kravitz means the occupiers get still 10 more days.
Huzzah!
What wonderful drama.
Anyways it is interesting that westvilleman (I think) wants to save the taxpayer money when it comes to occupy while encouraging a mother who let her child roam to sue the city.