Zalaski v. City of Hartford

REENA RAGGI, Circuit Judge:

In this action pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983, plaintiffs, the Animal Rights Front, Inc. (“ARF”) and two of its members, Lisa Zalaski and Derek V. Oatis, appeal from a judgment of the United States District Court for the District of Connecticut (Vanessa L. Bryant, Judge), entered after a bench trial in favor of defendant, Hartford Police Sergeant Daniel Albert, on claims that Albert violated plaintiffs’ First, Fourth, and Fourteenth Amendment rights when he arrested Zalaski and Oatis at the public site of a children’s foot race during which plaintiffs were protesting…