Occupy New Haven wins court case....for now

Last man standing so to say. Occupy New Haven is the last actual encampment in New England, and one of the last of any substantial size period in the nation. Now for most of its existence the city has been pretty accommodating. New Haven is a pretty damn liberal city, like really god damn liberal. After 5 months though, the city asked us to kindly GTFO, they offered different places for encampment, or offered to allow Occupy back in the future for short stints, Occupy decided on no. So, last Wednesday on the 14th was supposed to eviction day. Like many Occupies, ONH went to court to try to fight it............and won! For now. A federal judge granted ONH a 2 week restraining order against the city on the condition $1,000 was put up in bond for the porta potties. Free to camp, not free to pee. The judge did warn though not to take this as a victory, as it's just a restraining order to the next part of legal proceedings.

ONH is unique in their case as aside from arguing the tents symbolize speech(which the judge agreed with but that alone doesn't stop an eviction), they're also arguing an ownership case. The New Haven green is still technically owned by the descendants of the original colonist of New Haven. ONH is arguing that violates the state constitution and the Green should belong to the city, the main leg that is keeping the case going. As of now the camp is sending our ambassadors of such to Boston, NYC and other nearby areas trying to get Occupiers to come to the green in an effort to make one massive last stand.

Anyways, here is our awesome lawyer Norm discussing details of the case

 

My hats off to you guys for hanging in there, looks like spring is springing so keep up the good work.