Southern District Judge Shira Scheindlin (See Profile) has refused to stay her order installing a monitor for the New York Police Department to oversee reforms of police stop-and-frisk tactics.

Scheindlin rejected a request by the attorneys with the New York City Law Department to stay her orders in the case of Floyd v. City of New York, 08 Civ. 1034, pending its appeal to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.