G. I. DISTRIBUTORS, INC. v. MURPHY

No. 72 Civ. 95.

336 F.Supp. 1036 (1972)

G. I. DISTRIBUTORS, INC., et al., Plaintiffs, v. Patrick MURPHY, Individually and in his capacity as Police Commissioner of the City of New York, and Frank S. Hogan, Individually and in his capacity as District Attorney of New York County, Defendants.

United States District Court, S. D. New York.

January 19, 1972.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Herald Price Fahringer, Jr., Buffalo, N. Y., for plaintiffs.

J. Lee Rankin, Corporation Counsel, New York City, for defendant Murphy; Michael M. Klein, Asst. Corporation Counsel, of counsel.

Frank S. Hogan, Dist. Atty. New York County, New York City, pro se; Hugh Anthony Levine, Asst. Dist. Atty., of counsel.


EDWARD WEINFELD, District Judge.

Plaintiffs, G. I. Distributors, Inc., a magazine and book distributor, and Data Affiliates, Inc., a computer service company, bring this action pursuant to 42 U.S.C., section 1983, and preliminarily move for the return of their respective properties seized by the defendants pursuant to warrants of seizure issued by judges of the Criminal Court of the City of New York. It was a massive seizure —the plaintiffs' premises were stripped...

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