Activists and civil rights attorneys hailed the settlement, which includes $7.6 million for plaintiffs lawyers' fees, as a vindication of their claim that police had no right to arrest some 1,800 protestors, bystanders, legal observers and journalists without individualized probable cause.
January 16, 2014 at 12:00 AM
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New York City has agreed to pay $18 million to settle claims from mass arrests during the 2004 Republican National Convention, a move that activists and civil rights attorneys hailed Wednesday as a victory for constitutional rights.
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