Lederman v. Adams

OPINION

CHIN, District Judge.

In this case, plaintiff Robert Lederman, an artist and president of the organization Artists’ Response to Illegal State Tactics (“A.R.T.I.S.T.”), was arrested on three separate occasions by police officers employed by defendant New York City Police Department (the “NYPD”). Lederman challenges these arrests on the basis that they were not supported by probable cause. He further alleges that the police arrested him because he protested the arrest of artists purportedly for violating an ordinance, later declared unconstitutional by the Second Circuit, prohibiting…