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PEO EX REL WELLS v. DeMARCO

2017-12806.

168 A.D.3d 31 (2018)

88 N.Y.S.3d 518

2018 NY Slip Op 07740

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK ex rel. JORDAN WELLS, on Behalf of SUSAI FRANCIS, Petitioner, v. VINCENT F. DeMARCO, Respondent.

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York, Second Department.

Decided November 14, 2018.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

New York Civil Liberties Union Foundation, New York City ( Jordan Wells , Paige Austin , Mariana Kovel , Christopher Dunn and Scout Katovich of counsel), and American Civil Liberties Union Foundation, New York City ( Omar C. Jadwat , Cody Wofsy and Spencer Amdur of counsel), for petitioner.

Dennis M. Brown , County Attorney, Hauppauge ( Leonard G. Kapsalis of counsel), for respondent.

Matthew G. Whitaker , Acting United States Attorney General, Washington, DC ( Richard P. Donoghue , Joseph A. Marutollo , Chad A. Readler , William C. Peachey , Erez Reuveni and Steven A. Platt of counsel), for amicus curiae United States of America.

Barbara D. Underwood, Attorney General, New York City (Anisha S. Dasgupta and Scott A. Eisman of counsel), amicus curiae pro se.

Morningside Heights Legal Services, Inc., New York City (Elora Mukherjee, National Immigrant Justice Center [Mark Fleming and Katherine Melloy Goettel], pro se, and Christopher N. Lasch, pro se, of counsel), for amici curiae National Immigrant Justice Center and others.

BALKIN, LEVENTHAL and HINDS-RADIX, JJ., concur.

OPINION OF THE COURT

The issue before us in this proceeding is both narrow and important. We must decide whether New York law permits New York state and local law enforcement officers to effectuate civil immigration arrests. The authority of federal civil immigration officers...

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