-NY Law Journal 3/26/99
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"A Manhattan federal judge has ruled that artist and activist Robert Lederman can go ahead with a suit alleging that the New York City Police violated his constitutional rights by arresting him for protesting the police department's crackdown on street artists.
Southern District Judge Denny Chin said that Mr. Lederman, who heads the organization Artists' Response To Illegal State Tactics (A.R.T.I.S.T.), had raised a factual issue concerning his allegations that the police made the arrests in a bid to chill his First Amendment rights. The judge also found that Mr. Lederman had shown that the city may have had an informal policy to drive the artists out of the SoHo community."
Robert Lederman, President of A.R.T.I.S.T. (Artists' Response To Illegal State Tactics), (718) 369-2111
Email: ARTISTpres@aol.com
Website: http://www.openair.org/alerts/artist/nyc.html