New York—(ENEWSPF)—October 15, 2014. Today, attorneys in the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) landmark class action stop-and-frisk lawsuit, Floyd v. City of New York, urged a three-judge panel to reject a demand by five New York City police unions to intervene in the case to keep alive the appeal the de Blasio administration wishes to drop. The unions seek to overturn a decision by Federal District Judge Analisa Torres, who ruled that the unions’ 11th hour request to intervene was filed years too late, given the significance of and publicity surrounding the case. In any event, Torres further ruled, the unions have no distinct legal interest as a bargaining unit in challenging the court’s finding of liability against the City for its unconstitutional stop-and-frisk practices or in preventing the joint reform process ordered by the court. Today’s argument was before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit in Manhattan.
