Judge Denny Chin of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. Photo: David Handschuh/NYLJ
A wrongful death suit against NYPD officers and the city over the 2011 death of an unarmed man in Manhattan was grinding through the pretrial process in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York. In March, after years of pretrial process, the district judge set a trial date in July.
A month ahead of the start of trial, the parties received a note from the court: the case had been re-assigned—not to another federal trial judge in the Southern District, but instead to an alumnus, Judge Denny Chin of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.
