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MORFESIS v. DEPT. OF HOUSING PRESERVATION & DEV.

No. 90 CIV. 1181 (LBS).

733 F.Supp. 745 (1990)

Andonis MORFESIS, Petitioner, v. DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING PRESERVATION AND DEVELOPMENT OF the CITY OF NEW YORK; George Vierno, Acting Commissioner, New York City Department of Correction; Harry Weisberg, Acting New York City Sheriff, Respondents.

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

March 29, 1990.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Lipsitz, Green, Fahringer, Roll, Schuler & James, New York City, for petitioner; Herald Price Fahringer and Diarmuid White, of counsel.

Victor A. Kovner, Corp. Counsel of City of New York, New York City, for respondents; Janessa C. Nisley and Jane L. Gordon, of counsel.

OPINION

SAND, District Judge.

This reinstated petition1 for a writ of habeas corpus squarely presents one question: does the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution require personal delivery of process to an alleged criminal contemnor? Andonis Morfesis was charged with violation of seven separate orders of a New York Civil Court Housing judge...

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