COPELAND v. VANCE

11 Civ. 3918 (KBF).

230 F.Supp.3d 232 (2017)

John COPELAND, Pedro Perez, and Native Leather, Ltd., Plaintiffs, v. Cyrus VANCE, Jr., in his Official Capacity as the New York County District Attorney, and City of New York, Defendants.

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

Signed January 27, 2017.

Editors Note
Applicable Law: 42 U.S.C. § 1983
Cause: 42 U.S.C. § 1983 Civil Rights Act
Nature of Suit: 950 Constitutional - State Statute
Source: PACER


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Daniel Louis Schmutter , Hartman & Winnicki, P.C., Ridgewood, NJ, for Plaintiffs.

Elizabeth Norris Krasnow , New York City District Attorney's Office, Louise Hari Lippin , New York City Law Depart. Office of the Corporation Counsel, Eva Marie Dowdell , Patricia Jean Bailey , New York, NY, for Defendants.


OPINION & ORDER

Plaintiffs John Copeland, Pedro Perez, and Native Leather, Inc. ("Native Leather") assert an as-applied constitutional challenge to the validity of New York Penal Law §§ 265.00(5) and 265.01(1), which criminalize the possession of gravity knives (the "Gravity Knife Law...

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