A judge affirmed a jury finding that a man’s First Amendment rights were violated when he was silenced at a public meeting of the Niagara Falls City Council for complaining that the body’s chairman had slurred Italians.
Western District Judge William Skretny, however, reduced the jury’s $105,000 judgment in compensatory and punitive damages in Matteo Anello’s favor to $40,000 and cut the legal fees request of $278,434 by his lawyers by more than half.
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