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HANDSCHU v. SPECIAL SERVICES DIV.

Nos. 502 through 508, Dockets 85-7480, 85-7486, 85-7488, 85-7496, 85-7498, 85-7500 and 85-7502.

787 F.2d 828 (1986)

Barbara HANDSCHU, Ralph Digia, Alex McKeiver, Shaba Om, Curtis M. Powell, Abbie Hoffman, Mark A. Segal, Michael Zumoff, Kenneth Thomas, Robert Rusch, Annette T. Rubinstein, Mickey Sheridan, Joe Sucher, Steven Fischler, Howard Blatt, Ellie Benzone, on behalf of themselves and all others similarly situated, Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. SPECIAL SERVICES DIVISION a/k/a Bureau of Special Services, William H.T. Smith, Arthur Grubert, Michael Willis, William Knapp, Patrick Murphy, Police Department of the City of New York, John V. Lindsay, and various unknown employees of the Police Department acting as undercover operators and informers, Defendants-Appellees, v. COMMUNIST PARTY, USA, Communist Party, New York State, Richard Dhoruba Moore, Black Economic Survival, Robert Bloom, Mark Gombiner, Puerto Rican Socialist Party, David Lerner, Workers World, Jean Toche, Eduardo Cruz, Bill of Rights Foundation, Bruce Anspach, Paul Avrich, Jane Benedict, Comite Chileno Anti-Fascista, John Cammett, Sheila S. Collins, Paul Cowan, Emile D'Antonio, Ralph Digia, Kathy Engel, Robert Engler, William Epton, Robert H. Fink, Miriam Friedlander, Marvin R. Gettleman, Mark Gildav, Alan Ginsberg, Peter Orlovsky, Alan Charney, Edward Greer in Behalf of Gilbert Green, Nora Bredes, Selig L. Harris, Karla Jay, Harold S. Kleinman, Robert Lefcourt, Sandra Levinson, Henry Magdoff, Ruth W. Messinger, David Metzger, Barton Meyers, Mobilization For Survival, Jerrold Nadler, North American Conference on Latin America, Bertell Ollman, Grace Paley, Steven Fischler, Joel Sucher, Paul Robeson, Jr., John S. Rosenberg, Arthur H. Samuelson, Walter Schneir, Miriam Schneir, Dennis Sherman, John J. Simon, Natalie J. Sokoloff, Samuel M. Sweeney, Sylvia Hall Thompson, Geoffrey S. Smith, Tower News Service, Basil Wilson, Win Magazine, John M. Miller, Howard Zinn, Committee For Suit Against Government Misconduct, International Indian Treaty Council, New York State Citizens Party, New York Theological Seminary, Pen American Center, Morton Sobell, Helen L. Sobell, Coalition For Peoples Alternative, Youth International Party, Richard Goldenson, William Appleman Williams, Sigmond Diamond, Richard Falk, Robert M. Fass, George W. Webber, Lambda Legal Defense & Education Fund, Inc., Freedom To Write Committee of Pen American Center, Annette Rubinstein, Charles Rivers, Lucius Walker, Michael Rubin, National Conference of Black Lawyers, Charlene Mitchell, United States Peace Council, Labor Research Associates, National Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression, and National Emergency Civil Liberties Committee, and National Lawyers Guild, Objectors-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided April 9, 1986.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John Abt and Jeffrey Schwartz, New York City, for objector-appellant Communist Party USA and Communist Party NYS.

Paul G. Chevigny, Martin R. Stolar (Stolar, Alterman & Boop), Jethro M. Eisenstein (Friedman and Eisenstein) and Franklin Siegel, New York City, of counsel, for plaintiffs-appellees.

Dana Robbins, New York City (Frederick A.O. Schwartz, Jr., Corp. Counsel, and Larry A. Sonnenshein, New York City, of counsel), for defendants-appellees.

Marshall Perlin, New York City for objectors-appellants Bruce Anspach, et al.

Michael Krinsky, New York City (Rabinowitz, Boudin, Standard, Krinsky & Lieberman and Victor Rabinowitz, New York City, on the brief), for objector-appellant Nat. Emergency Civil Liberties Committee.

Robert J. Boyle, Brooklyn, N.Y. for objector-appellant Richard Dhoruba Moore.

Michael Ratner, Marjorie Ratner and Anne E. Simon, New York City, for objector-appellant Center for Constitutional Rights.

Rabinowitz, Boudin, Standard, Krinsky & Lieberman and Michael Krinsky, New York City, on brief, for objector-appellant Nat. Lawyers Guild.

Rabinowitz, Boudin, Standard, Krinsky & Lieberman, and Betty St. Clair, New York City, on brief, for objector-appellant Bill of Rights Foundation, Inc.

Before VAN GRAAFEILAND, NEWMAN and MINER, Circuit Judges.

VAN GRAAFEILAND, Circuit Judge:

Objector-appellants (appellants) are members of a class who seek to overturn an order of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York (Haight, J.) approving the settlement of a class action which charged the New York City Police Department's Public Security Section, formerly known as the Special Services Division, with violations of appellants' constitutional rights. The district court's Memorandum Opinion...

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