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Lawsuit over Ann Arbor Synagogue Protests Headed to U.S. Court of Appeals


(Michigan Live) Ryan Stanton - Michigan attorney Marc Susselman and Ziporah Reich of the New York-based Lawfare Project, who are representing two plaintiffs opposed to weekly anti-Israel protests outside an Ann Arbor synagogue, said Friday they are appealing to the 6th Circuit Court of Appeals after U.S. District Judge Victoria Roberts dismissed their case on Thursday, saying the protests are protected as free speech. Reich said, "The court is effectively saying that the emotional distress experienced by Jews, in reaction to the anti-Semitic slurs hurled at them every week for 16 years in front of their house of worship, is insufficient injury to grant them access to federal court."
2020-09-07 00:00:00
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