BRUKER v. CITY OF NEW YORK

No. 93 CIV. 3848(MGC).

92 F.Supp.2d 257 (2000)

Stephanie BRUKER, Plaintiff, v. CITY OF NEW YORK; New York City Department of Social Services/Human Resources Administration/Child Welfare Administration, currently operating as Administration of Children's Services; Robert Little, in his individual capacity and in his official capacity as Commissioner of the New York City Child Welfare Administration; Dolores Perry, in her individual capacity and in her official capacity as a caseworker for the New York City Child Welfare Administration; Catholic Home Bureau; Father Flannegan's Boystown, New York; Mayor Rudolph Giuliani, in his individual capacity and in his official capacity; Deputy Mayor John Dyson, in his individual capacity and in his official capacity; Marva Livingston Hammons, in her individual capacity and in her official capacity as Commissioner of the Human Resources Administration; and Katherine Kroft, in her individual capacity and in her official capacity as Executive Deputy Commissioner of the Human Resources Administration, Defendants.

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

Opinion Denying Reconsideration, April 27, 2000.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Stephanie Bruker, Riverdale, NY, pro se.

Suzanne M. Halbardier, Barry, McTiernan & Moore, New York City, for Defendants.

Eileen B. Eglin, Traub Eglin Lieberman Straus, Hawthorne, NY, for Defendant.


OPINION

CEDARBAUM, District Judge.

Plaintiff's principal grievance in this action is that New York City, immediately upon removing plaintiff's daughter from her custody, deliberately and totally ignored the fact that both plaintiff and her daughter were avowedly Jewish, and placed the daughter through a Catholic foster care agency into a Catholic foster home.

This action was commenced on June 8, 1993. Stephanie Bruker filed the original complaint...

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