legal

<div>this tag is general, see judges, atty, etc </div><div>
</div>pacres new tag but not the biggest/oldest: <ul style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><li><a class="new" title="Pacific Legal Center (page does not exist)" href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Pacific_Legal_Center&action=edit&redlink=1" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none;">Pacific Legal Center</a> (Sacramento) - <a class="new" title="Ron Zumbrun (page does not exist)" href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Ron_Zumbrun&action=edit&redlink=1" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none;">Ron Zumbrun</a> - This is the nation's oldest and largest with a 1983 staff of 20 (PM supported)</li></ul><div></div><div> yay<p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 25.2000007629395px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">And yesterday, these 10 were found “not guilty” by New York City Criminal Court Judge Robert Mandelbaum. According to <a href="http://floodwallstreet.net/media/" target="_blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(67, 146, 65); transition: color 0.2s linear; -webkit-transition: color 0.2s linear; background: transparent;">Flood Wall Street</a>, Judge Mandelbaum ruled that the New York Police Department’s (NYPD) order to disperse violated the First Amendment. In his ruling, the judge also found “that by ordering protesters to leave the entire Wall Street area, police violated protesters’ First Amendment right to carry their message directly to its intended recipients: the Wall Street bankers who bankroll <a href="http://ecowatch.com/climate-change-news/" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(67, 146, 65); transition: color 0.2s linear; -webkit-transition: color 0.2s linear; background: transparent;">climate change</a>.”<p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 25.2000007629395px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Defense Attorney Jonathan Wallace successfully argued that the Constitution protects Americans’ rights to “express political speech within proximity to the target of the protest. In this case, the NYPD first prevented protesters from entering Wall Street before later orderingthem to leave the area altogether.” This method of policing proved to be unlawful. <p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 25.2000007629395px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">That is a victory in and of itself for the 10 individuals, as well as, the general American public and its right to protest. But the judge went even further “by taking judicial notice that climate change is happening, is a serious problem, requires immediate action and is caused by human activity,” said Flood Wall Street.<p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 25.2000007629395px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">“The importance of judicial notice is that the judge accepted climate change and the need to do something about it as a fact without the necessity of any evidentiary support or proof at trial,” said Defense Attorney Martin Stolar. “To the best of my knowledge, this is unprecedented and has significance for future litigation involving climate change.”<p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 25.2000007629395px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The ruling sets an important legal precedent in recognizing the constitutional legitimacy of mass civil disobedience actions protesting climate change, according to Flood Wall Street. The 10 defendants gave passionate testimony to the court, “<a href="http://ecowatch.com/2015/03/04/david-suzuki-climate-change-real-threat/" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(67, 146, 65); transition: color 0.2s linear; -webkit-transition: color 0.2s linear; background: transparent;">affirming that their actions were justified</a>.”...http://ecowatch.com/2015/03/06/found-not-guilty-flood-wall-street</div><div></div>