Animal-Rights Activist Wins $15,000 In Leafleting-Arrest Lawsuit

January 25th, 2012

Edward Coffin said yesterday was “bittersweet,” even though he ended it $15,000 richer.

The city agreed to pay Coffin, an animal-rights activist, that sum as a settlement. He sued the city last year with the help of the state’s branch of the American Civil Liberties Union after he was illegally arrested during a supermarket protest in 2009…