Suffolk Superior Court Frances A. McIntyre has lifted her temporary restraining order against the eviction of Occupy Boston from Dewey Square. Her decision rests on her conclusion that the occupation of Dewey Square in the shadow of the Boston Federal Reserve is not a symbolic act of speech worthy of First Amendment protection. Here are the top ten quirkiest quotes from the judge’s ruling:

10. “The act of occupation, this court has determined as a matter of law, is not speech”

9. “The plaintiffs’ occupation of Dewey Square to the effective exclusion of others is the very antithesis of their message that a more just and egalitarian society is possible”

8. “While it is surely true that any person who chooses to make a speech or carry a placard at Dewey Square would find a hospitable audience, parents with young children, vendors, and wheelchair-bound people cannot access this space as presently used.”

7. “The Conservancy in enacting and enforcing rules is effectively acting as a governmental agency”

6. “Municipalities across the country have responded in kind to the act of occupation, frequently by police force. I take that as showing that the act of occupation is not understood to communicate plaintiffs’ intended message of egalitarian democracy”

5. “There is little likelihood that Occupy Boston’s professed message can be understood by their act of occupation, either. It has not generally been perceived as benign by those occupied”

4. “The media has clearly understood the plaintiffs’ contribution to the national conversation”

3. “The court has been informed that the plaintiffs wish to import a stainless steel sink and fireproof tent onto the site. As should be clear from this opinion, they are not entitled to do so.”

2. “Here, the Federal Reserve Bank is not the intended audience”

1. “The plaintiffs are permitted to camp on the Harbor Islands in Boston”

Although not as bizarre as some of the other quotations, the judge’s finding about the Conservancy is telling. The Rose Kennedy Greenway Conservancy is a private corporation run by a board of Boston’s one percent — wealthy financiers, corporate lawyers, and real estate investors. The judge has explicitly found that the control of public space has been explicitly transferred to this private corporation, which makes rules and regulations in place of a democratic government.

This evening, riot police invaded the Occupy Boston encampment to seize the protestors’ kitchen sink. The action, which led to the arrest of three protesters and a police officer accidentally stepping on a college-age female protester, was in evident violation of the restraining order that forbids the seizure of personal belongings extended today by Suffolk Superior Court Frances McIntyre.

Police seized the newly donated graywater sink and tossed it into the back of a police wagon, as other police with flex cuffs blocked occupiers. Dozens of motorcycle police arrived. A brief skirmish ensued as some protesters linked arms to block the wagon from leaving. In the ensuing sink seizure chaos, occupier Suzi Pietroluongo was stepped on by a police officer. When the police wagon sped off, the back doors were open and the sink was hanging out.

Watch Bob Plain‘s video of the police seizing the sink:

At the General Assembly following the sink skirmish, Occupy Boston librarian John Ford jokingly asked if this is the most any municipality has ever spent for a kitchen sink. Boston Police have consistently prevented Occupy Boston from bringing in winterized tents, insulation materials, and other safety equipment, calling it “contraband.”

Earlier this week, the Rose Kennedy Greenway Board of Directors, a group of wealthy Bostonians who help manage Dewey Square, charged that the occupation needed to be shut down because “sanitary conditions are deteriorating.”

At a court-ordered hearing between the City of Boston and the members of Occupy Boston’s Dewey Square encampment, Suffolk Superior Court Judge Frances A. McIntyre decided to keep a restraining order in place until December 15 preventing an eviction of the nation’s longest-running occupation. The city attorney claimed the protesters were trying to “privatize” public property and should protest on “private property.” The attorney for the elite Greenway Conservancy, the private organization that helps manage the park, argued the First Amendment is not absolute. The Boston Fire Marshal painted a dire picture of fire hazards, but was not able to show good-faith efforts to work with the protesters to improve the safety of the encampment.

Occupy Boston’s witness, winterization working group leader K. Eric Martin, explained the public forum in the heart of the financial district is crucial to the movement, and described how Boston Police have prevented the occupiers from bringing in winterized tents and other materials to improve the occupiers’ well-being. (From John Atwater, J.M Lawrence, Carl Stevens, Robin Jacks reports.)

Earlier this month, a Boston judge granted a restraining order preventing Boston police from raiding the Occupy Boston encampment. Included among this restraining order was an order to “refrain from any police action which would remove the individuals, tents, and personal belonging of the Occupy Boston protesters from Dewey Square.”

Boston police appear to have violated this order during a raid last night. Police entered the Occupy boston encampment and seized a wooden pallet from the protesters and removed it. Watch a video of one protester explaining what happened and showing a picture of the seizure:

The stay on police actions was not supposed to end until Dec. 1, and it is unclear what the city of Boston will do now that the police appear to have violated a court order.