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• But the man whose arrest produced that ruling still cannot recover damages fro the court.
• The First Amendment protects people who record publicly visible portions of a police station while standing on a public sidewalk, the court says.
• The ruling was handed down by the Second Circuit Court of Appeals in New York City.
• The case was brought by a man who was arrested on suspicion of filming police in public.
• The man's arrest produced the ruling.