Preet Bharara, U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York, speaks at the 118th CityLaw Breakfast. Image credit: CityLand
On Friday, January 23, 2015, the Center for New York City Law at New York Law School hosted a City Law Breakfast featuring Preet Bharara, U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York, as the guest speaker. The special sponsors for this CityLaw Breakfast were Guidepost Solutions, LLC and Kostelanetz & Fink LLP.
Zoning resolution prohibited apartment dweller from placing illuminated “Peace” sign in 17th floor window. In 2010 Brigitte Vosse placed an illuminated “Peace” sign in the window of her seventeenth-floor condo in The Ansonia at 2109 Broadway in the Upper West Side of Manhattan. The Department of Buildings fined her $800 for violating a zoning ordinance restricting illuminated signs in her neighborhood at heights above forty feet. Vosse argued that the City placed a content-based restriction on her speech, citing an exemption in the Zoning Resolution for flags, banners, or pennants of a civic, philanthropic, educational, or religious nature. Vosse also argued even if content-neutral, the regulation was an unreasonable “time, place, and manner” restriction on her speech.
Preet Bharara, U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York, speaks at the 118th CityLaw Breakfast. Image credit: CityLand
On Monday, November 30, 2015, former Speaker of the New York State Assembly Sheldon Silver was convicted on seven charges of corruption in Federal court. Two days after announcing the charges this past January, U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York Preet Bharara spoke at the Center for New York City Law’s CityLaw Breakfast. The video of the speech is available in full after the jump.
The Center for New York City Law cordially invites you to the 118th City Law Breakfast
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Preet Bharara
United States Attorney, Southern District of New York
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