{"id":3198,"date":"2008-03-05T09:38:29","date_gmt":"2008-03-05T14:38:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2008\/03\/up_is_up_and_down_is_down_after_all.html"},"modified":"2008-03-05T09:38:29","modified_gmt":"2008-03-05T14:38:29","slug":"up_is_up_and_down_is_down_after_all","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2008\/03\/up_is_up_and_down_is_down_after_all.html","title":{"rendered":"Up Is Up And Down Is Down, After All"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After a lower court ruled that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2007\/01\/the_constitutio.html\">jumping off the observation deck of the Empire State Building is constitutionally protected free speech<\/a>, an appellate court <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/03\/05\/nyregion\/05jumper.html?ex=1362459600&#038;en=0b10a785865ed935&#038;ei=5124&#038;partner=permalink&#038;exprod=permalink\">reverses the ruling<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>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.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>See also: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2008\/01\/first_you_tap_t_1.html\">First You Tap That Building, Then You Tax It<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3198","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-law_order"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3198","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3198"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3198\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}