Many ChangeNYC.Org members have requested more information about the important First Amendment lawsuit brought by civil rights attorney Norman Siegel on behalf of City Hall blogger Rafael Martinez-Alequín and online journalists Ralph E. Smith and David Wallis.
ChangeNYC.Org has just launched an online petition supporting these three citizen jounalists in their fight to assert and protect the right of freedom of the press for bloggers. We are urging our members to sign on to this petition and forward it to everyone we know.
Despite the enormous importance of this lawsuit as a legal precedent for bloggers everywhere in America, there are surprisingly few articles about this case. Here are links to some of the pieces worth reading:
"Was the Lie of 'Consistent Leadership' Old Media's Last Stand?" from The Daily Gotham
The Martinez-Alequin Case from Room Eight
Online Journalists Denied Press Credentials by NYPD; Civil Rights Lawsuit Filed from The Daily Gotham
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Thursday, November 20, 2008
Tuesday, November 11, 2008
Group Files Lawsuit to Block Extension of Term Limits
New York Times, By FERNANDA SANTOS, November 10, 2008
Elected officials, aspiring politicians, public interest groups and average citizens who voted to establish term limits in New York in the 1990s filed a federal lawsuit on Monday challenging the constitutionality of a law signed by Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg last week that extended the limit from a maximum of two terms in office to three.
From left, William C. Thompson Jr., Charles Barron, Letitia James and Norman Siegel were among those who filed the suit. The suit charges that the mayor and the City Council seized upon the economic downturn as an excuse to undo the term limits law that had been affirmed by voters twice through referendum, in 1993 and 1996, and that it did so with imprudent speed.
Among the people suing Michael Bloomberg and the City Council to block them from extending term limits is attorney Norman Siegel, who said there may be “an implicit restraint” applicable to changing a law legislatively that was created by a public referendum, such as term limits
Elected officials, aspiring politicians, public interest groups and average citizens who voted to establish term limits in New York in the 1990s filed a federal lawsuit on Monday challenging the constitutionality of a law signed by Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg last week that extended the limit from a maximum of two terms in office to three.
From left, William C. Thompson Jr., Charles Barron, Letitia James and Norman Siegel were among those who filed the suit. The suit charges that the mayor and the City Council seized upon the economic downturn as an excuse to undo the term limits law that had been affirmed by voters twice through referendum, in 1993 and 1996, and that it did so with imprudent speed.
Among the people suing Michael Bloomberg and the City Council to block them from extending term limits is attorney Norman Siegel, who said there may be “an implicit restraint” applicable to changing a law legislatively that was created by a public referendum, such as term limits
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