NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - Members of Occupy Nashville have filed a lawsuit in federal court challenging new rules governing the use of the War Memorial Plaza next to the capitol.
The Tennessean reports Occupy members are asking a federal judge block enforcement of the rules that include a prohibition on camping at the plaza.
Occupy protesters who had camped out there were arrested last October. A federal court order found the hastily drawn rules that prompted the arrests violated the protesters' First Amendment rights. Legislators then passed a law banning camping on all state property, including the plaza.
The Wednesday lawsuit names Gov. Bill Haslam and other state officials as defendants.
Occupy Nashville members have a separate suit pending in federal court related to the October 2011 arrests.
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