News for Norm Pattis

Colleagues of a headline-grabbing criminal lawyer, a civil rights attorney who accused the state judiciary that suspended her of racism, a former New London politician and his son are among the various attorneys representing parties in a federal lawsuit that stemmed from a highly publicized June 2020 hotel altercation.
The incident at the Quality Inn in Mystic-Stonington, video of which was published by local media outlet The Day and prompted outrage from Connecticut politicians and...

Norm Pattis, an outspoken Connecticut attorney, is appealing three state Supreme court decisions on threatening speech in the U.S. Supreme Court, setting the stage for the possibility that the next hate free speech case will come from Connecticut.
Over the past year, Connecticut’s top court has issued a trio of decisions involving fighting words and threats of violence that Pattis believes are ripe for high court review. Pattis said that in the next five years he would like to bring...