The four plaintiffs from Occupy Boston voluntarily dismissed their case against the City of Boston on Wednesday, December 21, 2011. The case, requesting a preliminary injunction to prohibit the City of Boston, Boston Police Department, and the Rose Fitzgerald Greenway Conservancy, Inc. from removing the Dewey Square encampment was filed on November 15, 2011. Boston Judge Frances A. McIntyre granted the group a temporary restraining order preserving the Dewey Square encampment until Dec. 7, when she denied Occupy Boston’s request for a preliminary injunction. Without a court order to stop them, on December 10, 2011 the BPD and other city officials raided and cleared the Occupy Boston encampment.
Since the raid, the Occupy Boston General Assembly, along with their legal aid, had been debating whether or not to file an appeal but after much deliberation ultimately decided not to. Without an encampment to fight for the “slow-moving long-term litigation” would ultimately be unnecessary.
Attorney for the group, Howard Cooper, stated, “We should all admire the manner in which the protesters sought out and won helpful court intervention and then ultimately respected the Court’s decision when it went against them and peacefully left Dewey Square.”
Occupy Boston continues to thrive with public general assemblies in different locations around Boston’s downtown area, over 57 working groups meeting, and continued marches and actions to raise awareness of the growing economic divide between the 1% and the 99%.
2 Responses to “OCCUPY BOSTON VOLUNTARILY HAS COURT CASE DISMISSED”
I thought OB handled the situation pretty well. It showed a lot of restraint in the face of what seemed like incitement tactics by the BPD.
Incitement tactics? Really? Do you even follow the world news??