On Class Action Over
Conditions in 26 Federal Plaza
Hearing Aug 12 With Paper Due Aug
11
by
Matthew Russell Lee, Patreon Book
Substack
SDNY
COURTHOUSE,
Aug 11 – A putative class
action was filed on August 8
over immigration enforcement
conditions in 26 Federal
Plaza. (Inner City Press on
that day covered the
courtrooms on the 12th floor
and the ICE activities just
outside).
The case
was assigned to US District
Court for the Southern
District of New York Judge
Gregory H. Woods at Part 1,
who on late on August 8 ruled
that "the Court anticipates
that on August 11 a hearing to
discuss the application for
the entry of the requested
provisional injunctive relief
will be scheduled."
On August
11 the case was assigned to
Judge Lewis A. Kaplan, who
then ruled that defendants'
paper opposing at TRO are due
by 5 pm on August 11, with
oral argument set for August
12 at 10 am - Inner City Press
will cover it
From Inner City
Press' August 8 report:
There are a
dozen ICE
officers with
masks over
their faces in
front of
Courtroom 1237
in 26 Federal
Plaza. In the
hall outside
the media is
allowed to
stand,
waiting.
On the
morning of August 8, Inner
City Press was there when a
Latino family came out of the
courtroom. A woman was crying,
asking "porque?" as she
was comforted and taken down a
short hallway away from the
click of the
cameras.
"Did they
grab somebody?" a journalist
asked, without
answer.
ICE officer
told journalists and
photographers to stand to the
side as the family passed: a
man pushing a stroller, a
toddler in a blue Oxford cloth
shirt, and the crying
woman.
"Please
get against the wall," one of
the ICE agents told
reporters.
There are
no overflow courtrooms,
allowing the Press to observe
the cases, and little
transparency.
The judges
in the courtrooms in 1237
appear to be named Sponzo,
Harbeck, Sagesse and Nasser -
no first names on the sign.
Instead, a sign
says "A message to illegal
aliens: A warning to
self-deport."
More on X for
Subscribers here
and Substack here
The case
is Barco Mercado v. Noem, et
al., 1:25-cv-6568 (Kaplan)
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