Refusal to Allow March Past U.N. Is Upheld
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From Times Wire Reports
Citing safety concerns in “this time of heightened security,” a federal judge upheld New York City’s refusal to allow antiwar demonstrators to march past the United Nations.
The judge said the demonstrators’ 1st Amendment rights were not violated by the city’s decision to confine the protest to a plaza near the U.N. complex.
United for Peace and Justice, organizers of Saturday’s march, filed an appeal in federal court, where the case is expected to be heard today or Wednesday, said a lawyer for the New York Civil Liberties Union.
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