DESHAWN E. BY CHARLOTTE E. v. SAFIR

Docket No. 97-7410.

156 F.3d 340 (1998)

DESHAWN E., by his parent, CHARLOTTE E., and Anthony C., by his parent, Valerie C., individually and on behalf of all others similarly situated, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. Howard SAFIR, in his official capacity as Commissioner of the New York City Police Department; Raul Russi, in his official capacity as Commissioner of the New York City Department of Probation; Peter Reinharz, in his official capacity as Chief of the Family Court Division of the New York City Law Department; and Michael Rodriguez, in his official capacity as police sergeant and head of the Manhattan Family Court Detective Squad, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided September 16, 1998.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jane L. Gordon, (Paul A. Crotty, Stephen McGrath, Georgia Pestana) Corporation Counsel of the City of New York, New York City, for Appellees.

Martin M. Lucente, (Jane M. Spinak, and Henry S. Weintraub) The Legal Aid Society, Juvenile Rights Division, New York City, for Appellants.

Before: CARDAMONE, WALKER, AND JACOBS, Circuit Judges.


JOHN M. WALKER, JR., Circuit Judge.

Plaintiffs-appellants, a certified class of "all children arrested on possible delinquency charges who are summoned to appear at the probation service in a Family Court building and are interrogated by members of the New York City Police Department's Detective Squad" appeal from a decision and judgment entered by the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York (John S. Martin, Jr., Judge), granting...

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