| NYC Homeless Sweeps Are
Sued With Survival Belongings
Being Confiscated Cited in SDNY
by
Matthew Russell Lee, Patreon Book
Substack
SDNY
COURTHOUSE,
Dec 27 – The City of New
York's "homeless sweeps" have
been sued, and gave rise to a
court hearing on December 27
before U.S. District Court for
the Southern District of New
York Judge John G. Koeltl.
Inner City Press' reporter was
the only media - the only
person - in the courtroom
gallery, thread:
Judge: I got
papers at 7 on Dec 23. One of
the affidavits is from
November. This is no way
to proceed. Litigation is not
a game. There are significant
interests on both
sides.
Judge: The State
AG has written in asserting
the 11th Amendment. The City
hasn't answered in any
way.
City's lawyer: We
give 48 to 96 hours notice for
a standard clean-up, 14 days
only for "perenniel
encampments." There's been a
typo in our policy.
Plaintiffs'
lawyer: 50 people died in
December a couple of years ago
- Judge: You may be preventing
DHS intervention Plaintiffs'
lawyer: The City should not be
confiscating survival
belongings.
[Judge took a 15
minute break that turned into
35 minutes
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