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FEDERAL DEFENDERS OF NY v. FED. BUREAU OF PRISONS

Docket No. 19-1778 August Term, 2020.

954 F.3d 118 (2020)

FEDERAL DEFENDERS OF NEW YORK, INC., on Behalf of Itself and Its Clients Detained at the Metropolitan Detention Center-Brooklyn, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. FEDERAL BUREAU OF PRISONS, Warden Herman Quay, in His Official Capacity, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided: March 20, 2020.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jenna M. Dabbs ( Sean Hecker , Joshua Matz , Matthew J. Craig , Benjamin D. White , on the brief), Kaplan Hecker & Fink LLP, New York, NY, for Plaintiff-Appellant.

Sean P. Greene ( Varuni Nelson , Rachel G. Balaban , Seth D. Eichenholtz , on the brief), for Richard P. Donoghue , United States Attorney for the Eastern District of New York, Brooklyn, NY, for Defendants-Appellees.

John M. Walker, Jr., Barrington D. Parker, Susan L. Carney:

This appeal concerns the severe curtailment of defense attorneys' access to client inmates held at the Metropolitan Detention Center-Brooklyn ("MDC"), most of whom are pretrial detainees who have not been convicted of a crime.

In February 2019, the Federal Defenders of New York, Inc. (the "Federal Defenders" or "Defenders") sued the Federal Bureau of Prisons (the "BOP") and Warden Herman Quay ("Warden Quay") (together, "Defendants"), alleging that their cancellation...

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