New York City Public Advocate Bill de Blasio and six community groups have been granted permission to intervene in the ongoing dispute over the future of the Long Island College Hospital. But labor unions representing employees of the LICH were turned down.
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Brooklyn Supreme Court Justice Carolyn Demarest agreed with de Blasio, a candidate for mayor, that his office has a legitimate role in the case “as a representative of [the] public interest.” Her decision comes less than a month after a colleague, Brooklyn Supreme Court Justice Johnny Lee Baynes, held in a parallel action that de Blasio lacks standing to bring an Article 78 proceeding to challenge the impending shutdown of the hospital (NYLJ, Sept. 17).
