ROCK AGAINST RACISM v. WARD

No. 85 Civ. 3000-CSH.

658 F.Supp. 1346 (1987)

ROCK AGAINST RACISM, Plaintiff, v. Benjamin R. WARD, in his official capacity as Police Commissioner of New York; George Scarpelli, in his official capacity as Chief of Operations for Department of Parks; Sheldon Horowitz, in his official as Special Events Director for the Department of Parks, Robert Russo, in his official capacity as Assistant Parks Commissioner for Citywide Services, New York City Department of Parks and Recreation; Joseph Killian, in his official capacity as Program Director for the Mall Bandshell of the Bethesda Terrace area of Central Park in the City of New York, Department of Parks and Recreation; Mayor Edward Koch, in his official capacity as the Mayor of the City of New York; and the City of New York, Defendants.

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

April 16, 1987.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Noah A. Kinigstein, New York City, for plaintiff; James Fossbinder, Tuscon, Ariz., of counsel.

Peter L. Zimroth, Corp. Counsel of the City of New York, New York City, for defendants; Jonathan Pines, Lina Liberatore, of counsel.


HAIGHT, District Judge:

The plaintiff in this action, Rock Against Racism ("RAR"), is an unincorporated association which describes itself as "dedicated to the espousal and promotion of antiracist views". Defendants are the City of New York, Edward I. Koch, Mayor of the City of New York, Police Commissioner Benjamin Ward, and four officials of the City's Department of Parks and Recreation (George Scarpelli, Sheldon Horowitz, Joseph Killian and Robert Russo). All individual...

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