Connecticut Police Fail in Bid to Toss Suit Over I-95 Protests

A pair of Connecticut residents can proceed with claims that state police troopers are unlawfully preventing protesters from displaying signs on highway overpasses.

But Judge Stefan R. Underhill on Thursday rejected the New Haven, Conn., residents’ bid for a preliminary injunction barring officers from interfering in their demonstrations and stayed the case, according to a minute entry in the US District Court for the District of Connecticut’s docket.

Erin Quinn and Robert Marra claimed that state police ordered them and other Connecticut residents to disperse as they held signs on highway overpasses across the state, which displayed messages including “no ...