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In the Fulton Street case, plaintiffs included Michael Schiller, Francesca Fiorentini and Robert and Neal Curley, held for at least 13, 17 and 16 hours, respectively, at the makeshift NYPD site at Pier 57. Schiller, a documentarian working for HBO, was surrounded by police netting and arrested while attempting to film protesters from the sidewalk. Fiorentini, an NYU undergrad, was photographing the War Resisters League demonstration when she was surrounded, arrested, handcuffed and made to sit on the street for two hours before being transported to Pier 57. Philadelphia lawyer Robert Curley and his 17-year old son, Neal, planned to join the War Resisters League protest but were among those arrested on the Fulton Street sidewalk.
In the East 16th Street case, plaintiffs included Hacer Dinler and Ann Maurer. Dinler was a fitness and dance instructor from Brooklyn who was confined by police en route to dance class; she was not involved in the protest. After about two hours in confinement, despite repeated pleas for help, Dinler fainted and experienced convulsions. She was transported by ambulance to St. Vincent's Hospital, where she remained overnight for testing and treatment. Maurer, of Astoria, and several friends participated in the Union Square demonstration but deliberately sought to avoid conflict with the police by walking apart from the main group. NYPD officers forced Maurer, a legal assistant at the ACLU, and her friends onto 16th Street, where she was arrested, handcuffed and fingerprinted. Maurer spent almost a day in police custody before being released.
In addition to Dunn, other NYCLU attorneys who worked on the Convention cases are Arthur Eisenberg, Taylor Pendergrass, Daniel Mullkoff, Scarlet Kim and Palyn Hung.