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VELAZQUEZ v. LEGAL SERVICES CORP.

Nos. 97-CV-182, 01-CV-8371.

356 F.Supp.2d 267 (2005)

Carmen VELAZQUEZ, WEP Workers Together!, Community Service Society of New York, Inc., New York City Coalition to End Lead Poisoning, Centro Independiente De Trabajadores Agricolas, Inc., and Greater New York Labor-Religion Coalition, on behalf of all similarly situated individuals, organizations and their members; namely, individuals and organizations who are, or wish to be, represented by lawyers employed by entities receiving funds from the Legal Services Corporation, and who wish to assert legal claims as members of a class, or to benefit from some other legal advocacy activity proscribed by Pub.L. 104-208; Farmworkers Legal Services of New York, Inc., on behalf of itself, and on behalf of all similarly situated not-for-profit legal services entities; namely, organizations who wish to be eligible to receive funds from the Legal Services Corporation, and who wish to be free to engage in legal advocacy activities that are proscribed by Pub.L. 104-208; Lucy A. Billings, Peggy Earisman, Olive Karen Stamm, Jeanette Zelhof, Elisabeth Benjamin, Jill Ann Boskey, and Lauren Shapiro, on behalf of each, and on behalf of all similarly situated individuals; namely, attorneys employed or formerly employed by entities receiving funds from the Legal Services Corporation who wish to be free to represent indigent individuals in class actions, and to engage in other attorney-client activities that are proscribed by Pub.L. 104-208; and Andrew J. Connick, Councilmember C. Virginia Fields, Councilmember Guillermo Linares, Councilmember Stanley Michels, Councilmember Adam Clayton Powell, IV, Senator Lawrence Seabrook, and Assemblyman Scott M. Stringer, on behalf of themselves and all similarly situated individuals; namely, individuals who have provided public or private non-federal funding to entities that also receive funds from the Legal Services Corporation, and who wish these funds to be used for legal advocacy activities that are proscribed by Pub.L. 104-208, Plaintiffs, v. LEGAL SERVICES CORPORATION, Defendant. David F. Dobbins, New York Foundation, Lisa E. Cleary, David W. Ichel, David G. Keyko, Mfy Legal Services, Inc., Brooklyn Legal Service Corp. B, Legal Services for New York City, Bronx Legal Services, Inc on their own behalf and on behalf of their clients, Plaintiffs, v. Legal Services Corporation, Defendant.

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

As Corrected February 22, 2005.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Burt Neuborne, David S. Udell, Laura Abel, The Brennan Center for Justice, New York City, Peter M. Fishbein, Michael F. Bahler, Kaye, Scholer, Fierman, Hays & Handler, LLP, New York City, for Plaintiffs.

Alan Levine, Stephen L. Ascher, Anne Nacinovich, Kronish, Lieb, Weiner & Hellman, New York City, for Defendant Legal Services Corp.

Joseph W. Lobue, John Tyler, U.S. Dept. of Justice, Civ. Div., Washington, DC, for Intervenor-Defendant U.S.

SUPPLEMENTAL MEMORANDUM AND ORDER

BLOCK, District Judge.

I.

In its December 20, 2004 Memorandum & Order ("M & O") in the above-captioned actions granting, in part, plaintiffs' motion for a preliminary injunction, the Court invited the parties to "notify the Court ... whether there are any viable claims that remain and, if not, whether there is any reason why finality should not now be achieved by converting the preliminary injunction into...

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