Attorneys for controversial conservative activist and blogger Pamela Geller are appealing a Manhattan federal judge’s ruling earlier this week that New York City’s ban on public gatherings did not violate her First Amendment right to protest COVID-19 shutdowns.

The lawsuit, filed earlier this month in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, sought a temporary restraining order to block Mayor Bill de Blasio and the New York City Police Department from enforcing a March 25 executive order, which banned all nonessential gatherings due to the pandemic.