New England’s last standing anti-corporate “occupation” was about to become history.
Then a ponytailed, self-described “geriatric hippie” lawyer read up on some New Haven history that blew his mind — and saved the fort, for now.
That lawyer is Norm Pattis. On a few hours’ notice he whipped together an 11th-hour legal complaint to try to stop the city from removing Occupy New Haven protesters and their five-month-old encampment on the upper Green by high noon on Wednesday.