In
SDNY Tester in Wheelchair Sues
Urban Outfitters On West
Broadway Eschewing Backdoor
Offer
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Patreon
SDNY COURTHOUSE,
Oct 9 – Wheelchair
bound Dedra De
La Rosa
in
April 2019
sued 383 West
Broadway
Corporation
for not having
a ramp at its
building so as a tester
she could
enter an
Urban
Outfitters store
there.
Her
lawyers Parkre
Lanski wanted
until May 11 -
more than a
year after the
complaint was
filed - to
complete
expert
discover. "I
don't think
so," U.S. District
Court for the
Southern
District of New
York Judge
John G. Koeltl said
on October
9, in a courtroom
otherwise
empty but for
Inner City
Press. Even the
SDNY court reporter
had left.
The
landlord's
lawyer said
they never
consent to proceeding
before a
Magistrate Judge.
He said the
landlord was
allowing
"handicapped"
people to
enter through
the back of the
building. Hmm.
Inner
City Press
will continue
to cover the
SDNY.
Previously
before Judge
Koeltl: Janbaz
Khan took
the express
2/3 subway
from Manhattan's
Penn Station
to Times Square on
January 21,
2016 - and
then he got
handcuffed and
arrested. He
was charged
with Sexual
Abuse in the
Third Degree.
One
year later
Khan was acquitted
after a two bench
trial before NYS
Judge Melissa
Crane. Then he
sued the
City and
arresting
officer Timothy
Trotter.
Now on
September 30,
2019 in thecourtroom
of Judge
Koeltl with
only Inner
City Press in
the gallery Khan's
lawyer Andrew L.
Hoffman pressed
his case.
Hoffman
insisted that
Khan never
pressed
himself on the
complainant,
whom he's
identified as
"T.G. a
32-year told
Long Island
native...
heroin abuser
since the age
of 15."
The
City's lawyer
Daron R. Ravenborg
said, at the
time of his
answer, that
he did not
have the
transcript of
Officer
Trotter's criminal
trial
testimony, and
therefore
denied
paragraphs 36-52 of
the complaint.
For now, it
appears that
this case
about a ride
in a crowded
subway in
January 2016 might go to
trial anytime
after February
28, 2020, on
48 hours
notice...
Inner City Press
will continue to cover this
and other SDNY and 2nd Circuit
cases - watch this site.
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