Up Is Up And Down Is Down, After All

After a lower court ruled that jumping off the observation deck of the Empire State Building is constitutionally protected free speech, an appellate court reverses the ruling:

The four-judge panel overturned a lower court decision that had found that Jeb Corliss, a professional skydiver who tried to leap from the 86th-floor observation deck in April 2006 did not violate any laws because, among other things, he was experienced and had carefully planned the jump.

The judges, however, reduced the charge in the indictment from a felony charge of reckless endangerment with depraved indifference to life to a misdemeanor charge of reckless endangerment.

See also: First You Tap That Building, Then You Tax It.