This column reports on several significant, representative decisions handed down recently in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York. Judge Kiyo A. Matsumoto ordered the government to turn over to defendant a 1992 homicide file prepared by the New York City Police Department. Judge Jack B. Weinstein dismissed claims against New York City and other defendants related to alleged peer classroom bullying at a public school. Magistrate Judge Joan M. Azrack rejected a father’s petition seeking return of his child to Romania under the Hague Convention. And Judge Arthur D. Spatt denied a motion by defendant, a collection agency, to compel arbitration of plaintiffs’ claims under the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act.
Discovery of Police Report
In United States v. Messina, 11 CR 31 (EDNY Aug. 8, 2011), Judge Matsumoto granted defendant’s request to compel discovery of an NYPD investigative file, now in the custody of the U.S. Attorney’s Office, concerning a 1992 murder listed among the charges against defendant in a pending federal racketeering indictment.
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