Steven GREENE, Giovanna Sanchez-Esquivel; Sarah Arvio; Lisa Collins; Oritseweyimi Omoanukhe Ayu; and Neil Amitabh, individually and on behalf of all others similarly situated, and Community Access, Inc.; National Alliance on Mental Illness of New York City, Inc.; Correct Crisis Intervention Today — NYC; and Voices of Community Activists and Leaders New York, Plaintiffs,
v.
CITY OF NEW YORK; Eric Adams; Bill de Blasio; Keechant L. Sewell; Dermot F. Shea; NYPD Police Officer Martin Haber; NYPD Police Sergeant Gbain, NYPD Police Officer Vikram Prasad; NYPD Police Officer Andre Dawkins; NYPD Police Officer Tyrone Fisher; NYPD Police Officer Deviendra Ramayya; NYPD Police Officer Julian Torres; NYPD Officer Sanchez; NYPD Officer Marrone; and NYPD Officers John and Jane Does # 1-40, Defendants.
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Signed March 26, 2024.
Signed March 26, 2024.
Attorney(s) appearing for the Case
Jeffrey F. Kinkle, Dunnington Bartholow & Miller LLP, New York, NY, Luna Droubi, Deema Azizi, Jody Lynn Yetzer, Jonathan C. Moore, Beldock Levine & Hoffman LLP, New York, NY, Richard Franklin Schwed, Dennis Danai Kitt, Shearman & Sterling LLP, New York, NY, Ruth Lowenkron, Marinda Van Dalen, New York Lawyers for the Public Interest, Inc., New York City, NY, Poupa Jenny Marashi, Law Office of P. Jenny Marashi/Marashi Legal, Bronx, NY, Samuel Polsky Vitello, Akerman LLP, New York, NY, Zhaohua Huang, Scarsdale, NY, for Plaintiffs Steven Greene, Giovanna Sanchez-Esquivel, Community Access, Inc., National Alliance on Mental Illness of New York City, Inc., Correct Crisis Intervention Today — NYC.
Jeffrey F. Kinkle, Dunnington Bartholow & Miller LLP, New York, NY, Luna Droubi, Deema Azizi, Jody Lynn Yetzer, Jonathan C. Moore, Beldock Levine & Hoffman LLP, New York, NY, Richard Franklin Schwed, Dennis Danai Kitt, Shearman & Sterling LLP, New York, NY, Ruth Lowenkron, New York Lawyers for the Public Interest, Inc., New York, NY, Poupa Jenny Marashi, Law Office of P. Jenny Marashi/Marashi Legal, Bronx, NY, Samuel Polsky Vitello, Akerman LLP, New York, NY, Zhaohua Huang, Scarsdale, NY, for Plaintiff Sarah Arvio.
Jeffrey F. Kinkle, Dunnington Bartholow & Miller LLP, New York, NY, Jody Lynn Yetzer, Beldock Levine & Hoffman LLP, New York, NY, Poupa Jenny Marashi, Law Office of P. Jenny Marashi/Marashi Legal, Bronx, NY, for Plaintiffs Neil Amitabh, Voices of Community Activists and Leaders New York, Lisa Collins, Oritseweyimi Omoanukhe Ayu.
Alan Howard Scheirer, Jeffrey Fredrick Frank, New York City Law Department, Special Federal Litigation Division, New York, NY, Peter William Brocker, United States Department of Justice, Washington, DC, Soo-Young Shin, United States Attorney's Office, Los Angeles, CA, for Defendant City of New York.
Soo-Young Shin, United States Attorney's Office, Los Angeles, CA, Alan Howard Scheiner, Jeffrey Fredrick Frank, New York City Law Department, Special Federal Litigation Division, New York, NY, for Defendants Bill de Blasio, Dermot F. Shea.
Alan Howard Scheiner, Jeffrey Fredrick Frank, New York City Law Department, Special Federal Litigation Division, New York, NY, for Defendants NYPD Police Officer Martin Haber, NYPD Sergeant Gbain, NYPD Police Officer Vikram Prasad, NYPD Police Officer Andre Dawkins, NYPD Police Officer Tyrone Fisher, NYPD Police Officer Deviendra Ramayya, NYPD Police Officer Julian Torres, NYPD Police Officer Sanchez, Eric Adams, Keechant L. Sewell, NYPD Officer Marrone.
Adam Nicholas Shoop, The Bronx Defenders, Bronx, NY, for Amicus The Bronx Defenders.
OPINION & ORDER
LORETTA A. PRESKA, United States District Judge.
Plaintiffs bring this putative class action against Defendants New York City ("the City") and numerous City employees to challenge the City's practice of using "police officers as first responders to mental health crises."1
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