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SDNY COURTHOUSE, Dec 10– As NYC gets colder, on December 8 law firms announced that
people with mental disabilities filed an emergency request to immediately halt NYC's new policy to greatly expand coerced transport to psychiatric hospitals of people perceived to have “an inability to meet their basic needs.” They said the motion for a temporary restraining order is brought in ongoing federal class action litigation challenging the City’s use of police officers as the front-line response to people with actual or perceived mental disabilities. Earlier this year, the plaintiffs in Baerga v. City of New York challenged the NYPD’s role in the City’s response to people with actual or perceived mental disabilities, including the coercive detention and transportation of people by the police to psychiatric facilities for evaluation.
On December 9, the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York Judge in that case, Paul A. Crotty, ruled that he will hear the matter on December 12: "ORDER on MOTION for Conference re: [108] Proposed Order to Show Cause With Emergency Relief and Motion to Strike Plaintiff's LETTER MOTION for Leave to File Opposition to Motion for Injunctive Relief Motion to Strike Application for Order to Show Cause or in the alternative to Convert Application for Order to Show Cause to Motion for Injunctive Relief and Set a Briefing; terminating [113] Letter Motion for Leave to File Document. Nevertheless, the Court declines the Defendants' request to strike Plaintiffs' requests. Instead, as a matter of efficiency, the Court converts the application to a motion for a preliminary injunction and a request for a premotion conference on discovery. The parties are further directed to confer regarding an expedited briefing schedule for both matters and a date for a preliminary injunction hearing. A pre-motion conference is set for December 12, 2022."
Inner City Press is covering the case.
It is Baerga v. City of New York et al, 21-cv-5762 (Crotty)
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