NYPD officers who arrested a lawyer who was speaking with demonstrators gathered in Zuccotti Park in lower Manhattan to commemorate the Occupy Wall Street movement are entitled to immunity from a false-arrest suit, a federal appeals court ruled on Monday.
Writing for a panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, Judge John Walker Jr. reversed the decision of Southern District Judge Andrew Carter Jr. that rejected New York City’s qualified immunity defense from the suit.
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