Hamodia, a popular Orthodox Jewish newspaper, interviewed our co-founder, Ted Frank, about the possibility of bringing civil lawsuits against organizations who engaged in traffic-blocking protests:
“There isn’t a lot of precedent and the reason for that is, in the past, police would have stopped protesters and arrested people and prosecutors would be prosecuting, but that’s happening less these days,” said Ted Frank, an attorney at the Hamilton Lincoln Law Institute.
Mr. Frank took up the cause of attempting to hit protesters with torts and is presently screening potential plaintiffs who have been trapped in traffic, prevented from reaching workplaces, and the like.
“We need serious plaintiffs with standing, who are not afraid of incurring the wrath of left-wing protesters,” he said.
Read more at Hamodia.