Judge sides with Occupy Eugene: “1st Amendment does not go to sleep at 5 p.m.”

Judge sides with Occupy Eugene: “1st Amendment does not go to sleep at 5 p.m.”

A federal judge ruled that the General Services Administration (GSA) wrongly infringed on the First Amendment rights of Occupy Eugene protesters by severely restricting the hours and days they were allowed to demonstrate.

The group, an offshoot of the Occupy Wall Street movement, sued the GSA for denying a permit so its members could protest in a public plaza in Eugene, Oregon in 2012.