Lawyers for New York City are expected to take the first step Friday challenging judicial oversight of the police department by filing notice of appeal on Southern District Judge Shira Scheindlin's rulings in the stop-and-frisk case of Floyd v. City of New York, 08 Civ. 1034. The city's Law Department will file notice with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, beginning its challenge to those aspects of Scheindlin's rulings considered to be final orders.
On Aug. 12, Scheindlin found the city liable for a pattern and practice of stopping hundreds of thousands of New Yorkers, mostly blacks or Hispanics, without reasonable suspicion they were involved in criminal activity. She also appointed former corporation counsel Peter Zimroth of Arnold & Porter as a monitor to develop reforms in practices, training, supervision and discipline of officers as well as how the NYPD records and tracks stop-and-frisk encounters.
