New York City Democratic mayoral candidate and Public Advocate Bill de Blasio last week urged the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit to reject the city Law Department’s request for a stay pending appeal of Southern District Judge Shira Scheindlin’s (See Profile) orders in the stop-and-frisk cases.
In an amicus brief filed ahead of Oct. 29 oral arguments on the stay, lawyers for de Blasio said any impact of the remedies ordered by Scheindlin in Floyd v. City of New York, 13-3088, and a companion case, including her appointment of a monitor to oversee reforms of New York Police Department practices, is not imminent. Further, the public advocate’s general counsel, Steven Newmark, and John Siegal of Baker & Hostetler write that “the monitorship process serves the public interest.”
