HIGGINBOTHAM v. SYLVESTER

14-cv-8549 (PKC).

218 F.Supp.3d 238 (2016)

Douglas HIGGINBOTHAM, Plaintiff, v. Police Officer Curtis SYLVESTER, Police Sergeant Christopher Tomlinson, and Police Captain Taffe, Defendants.

United States District Court, S.D. New York.

Signed November 2, 2016.

Editors Note
Applicable Law: 42 U.S.C. § 1983
Cause: 42 U.S.C. § 1983 Prisoner Civil Rights
Nature of Suit: 440 Civil Rights: Other
Source: PACER


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jay K. Goldberg , Goldberg & Allen LLP, New York, NY, for Plaintiff.

Andrew Joseph Lucas , NYC Law Department, Office of the Corporation Counsel, New York, NY, for Defendants.


MEMORANDUM AND ORDER

Plaintiff Douglas Higginbotham, who stands 5'9" and was carrying a thirty-pound camera, climbed atop an open air-phone booth that, itself, was seven feet high. Tightly crowded around the phone booth were people who came to Zuccotti Park in Manhattan to participate in or observe an Occupy Wall Street...

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