The Smoking Gun has more on the arrest of Downs:
http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/crossgates1.html - the mall contends he
was "disruptive" and bothering customers in addition to wearing the T shirt.
Not sure at what point bothering customers becomes a kick-outable offense.
And I was wrong about the irony. Upon reading more about this case
elsewhere, it appears that the Commission on Judicial Conduct, for which
Downs is chief attorney, might be considered a practitioner of censorship -
the Commission has been responsible for bringing charges against judges it
deemed to have improperly engaged in political activity - but a federal
judge recently voided most of the rules under which the Commission censured
judges because he said they violated judges' constitutional rights to free
speech. So it might be argued that Downs, in his capacity as an attorney
for the Commission, engaged in censorship, just as the mall did. So then it
is ironic. (an article about the Commission and the ruling is here:
http://www.newsday.com/news/local/state/ny-stjudg213140924feb21.story). I
should've read the end of the original article more closely.
-----Original Message-----
From: mary.g.hune@verizon.com [mailto:mary.g.hune@verizon.com]
Sent: Thursday, March 06, 2003 10:14 AM
To: law-lib@ucdavis.edu
Subject: Atty arrested at Mall for T-shirt
This article appeared in the NY Law Journal today. The action taken
against this attorney for merely wearing a T-shirt advocating "Peace" at a
shopping mall, makes me very uncomfortable about my rights as a citizen.
Especially after reading the analysis of Patriot II posted here by Brian
Baker.
The text of the article can be retrieved from
http://tinyurl.com/6z5r
Mary Grace Hune
Law Librarian
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