The de Blasio administration scored a big win in the city’s stop-and-frisk case Friday when a federal appeals panel passed it back to Manhattan judge – potentially fast-tracking an anticipated settlement deal between the new mayor and plaintiffs and also snubbing police unions in the process.
The Second Circuit Court of Appeals sided with the city by agreeing to move the case back to Manhattan federal Judge Analisa Torres, who was assigned the case in November after the same panel booted Judge Shira Scheindlin off it and questioned her impartiality.
The panel sided with Mayor de Blasio who asked that it let the city formerly withdraw an appeal made by the Bloomberg administration late last year and move the case back to Torres in the hopes of soon reaching a settlement with the plaintiffs.
It also opted to not to rule on a request made by the city’s police unions to intervene in the case in the hopes of blocking a settlement. The panel said Torres will now determine whether the unions could continue its fight.
The unions have said in legal papers they “are fighting to participate in this appeal to protect their reputations and to avoid these unwarranted burdens.”
Scheindlin in August had ruled stop-and-frisk illegally targeted minorities, and ordered sweeping reforms, including appointment of an outside monitor.
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