{"id":3726,"date":"2016-05-05T18:05:21","date_gmt":"2016-05-05T23:05:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/?p=3726"},"modified":"2016-05-05T18:05:21","modified_gmt":"2016-05-05T23:05:21","slug":"free-speech-wins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/2016\/05\/05\/free-speech-wins\/","title":{"rendered":"Free Speech Wins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ALTON \u2014 The man who was arrested for disorderly conduct last year at a selectmen\u2019s meeting for what one selectman called \u201ccharacter assassination\u201d has been awarded $42,500 in damages by a federal court judge.<\/p>\n<p>Jeffrey T. Clay, 57, of 53 Mallard Drive, was arrested approximately 40 seconds into the allotted five-minute comment period on Feb. 3, 2015, after asking all of the board members to resign. He claimed they had taken \u201cpoor actions as selectmen,\u201d made \u201cpoor decisions\u201d and \u201ccontinued violations of the citizens\u2019 rights here in Alton.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Read more&#8230;<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.unionleader.com\/apps\/pbcs.dll\/article?AID=\/20160504\/NEWS21\/160509656\">Court awards $40,000 in damages in Alton free speech case<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ALTON \u2014 The man who was arrested for disorderly conduct last year at a selectmen\u2019s meeting for what one selectman called \u201ccharacter assassination\u201d has been awarded $42,500 in damages by a federal court judge. Jeffrey T. Clay, 57, of 53 Mallard Drive, was arrested approximately 40 seconds into the allotted five-minute comment period on Feb. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[18,51],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3726","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-litigation","category-town-government"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3726","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3726"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3726\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3727,"href":"https:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3726\/revisions\/3727"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3726"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}