ESTATE OF ROSENBAUM BY PLOTKIN v. CITY OF NEW YORK

No. 92-CV-5414(FB).

975 F.Supp. 206 (1997)

ESTATE OF Yankel ROSENBAUM, by Samuel PLOTKIN, Public Administrator of the County of Kings, The Crown Heights Jewish Community Council, Carol Adelstein, Steven Adelstein, Yossi Alon, Yosef Altein, Isaac Bitton, Yechiel Bitton, Joseph Chenzin, Bruce Emmer, Sudarshan Jagga, Sarah Keller, Noson Kopel, Howard Kupchin, Harvey Lang, Ida Lefkowitz, Rose Marie Libassi, Chana Lipkind, Nechama Lipkind, David Michel, Menachem Piekarski, Jacob Pinson, Arie Prager, Allen Schwartz, Menachem Shagalow, Mordechai Shusterman, Michael Simon, William Welis, Zehava Welis, Yeshiva Chanoch Lenaar, Congregation B'nai Solomon Zalman of Crown Heights, Inc., on behalf of the themselves and others similarly situated, Plaintiffs, v. The CITY OF NEW YORK, David N. Dinkins, Individually and as Mayor of the City of New York, and Lee Brown, Defendants.

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

August 22, 1997.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Snitow & Pauley (Franklin H. Snitow, of counsel), New York City, for all Plaintiffs except Isaac and Yechiel Bitton.

Stillman & Friedman, P.C. (John B. Harris, of counsel), New York City, for Defendants Dinkins and Brown.


MEMORANDUM AND ORDER

BLOCK, District Judge:

This action, seeking relief pursuant to 42 U.S.C. §§ 1983, 1985, and 1986 and a variety of State causes of action, arises out of the unrest that gripped the Crown Heights neighborhood of Brooklyn between Monday, August 19 and Thursday, August 22, 1991, after an automobile escorting the late Lubavitcher Rebbe Menachem Schneerson ("Rebbe Schneerson")...

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