Filed Date: May 21, 2011
Closed Date: 2012
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On May 21, 2011, plaintiffs, two men of color, filed a lawsuit under 42 U.S.C. §1983 and state law against the City of New York in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York, Foley Square. The plaintiffs, represented by the New York Civil Liberties Union, asked the court for injunction and compensatory relief, claiming that their Fourth and Fourteenth Amendment rights had been violated. Specifically, the plaintiffs claimed that the New York City Police Department (NYPD) had violated their rights by unreasonably searching them during routine livery cab stops.
On September 3, 2010, at 11:30 P.M., one plaintiff, a lawyer in the Bronx, was leaving work and chose to use a livery cab. The cab was enrolled in the Taxi/Livery Robbery Inspection Program (TRIP), which gave consent for the cab to be stopped and inspected by the NYPD. The cab displayed a decal that indicated enrollment in TRIP. The NYPD stopped the livery cab, and ordered the plaintiff out of the vehicle. The plaintiff protested the search without reasonable suspicion, but the police indicated that enrollment in the TRIP program gave them the right to search passengers in the livery cab. Nothing was found.
On October 30, 2010, at 3:00 A.M., the second plaintiff, who was a manager at a popular radio station and a comedian, was returning to his home in Brooklyn in a livery cab. This cab was also enrolled in TRIP. The car was stopped and the plaintiff ordered to exit the vehicle, at which point the plaintiff's person and belongings were searched. Again, nothing was found.
The plaintiffs' case was accepted by the NYCLU and the New York University School of Law Civil Rights Clinic, and a complaint was filed alleging that the search of passengers in livery cabs without reasonable suspicion was unconstitutional.
On May 14, 2012, the Court (Judge Richard M. Berman) entered a stipulation and order of dismissal, because the case had settled. The Settlement contained $10,000 relief for each plaintiff ($20,000 total), $38,000 in attorney's fees, and injunctive-like provisions. The NYPD agreed to suspend its routine searching of passengers of vehicles that were pulled over as part of the TRIPS program. The NYPD further agreed that it would only search passengers when reasonable suspicion of a violent crime existed. Furthermore, the NYPD provided information that it was amending its training manual, informing officers at roll-call citywide (repeating it for 10 day periods, for three times over the next year), and issuing an operations order communicating the order to not search passengers absent reasonable suspicion of a violent crime during a TRIP stop.
The case was dismissed with the approval of the settlement.
Summary Authors
Blase Kearney (5/20/2012)
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Abelson, Adam (New York)
Aboushi, Tahanie Ahmad (New York)
Adams, Daniel Lloyd (New York)
Agro, Jill Kornhauser (New York)
Berman, Richard M. (New York)
Pitman, Henry B. (New York)
Alvarado, Rafael Enrique (New York)
Anderson, Lindsay K. (New York)
Barrett, Trevor William (New York)
Blum, Kimberly Ninh (New York)
Bruns, Christopher Lee (New York)
Buchanan, Michael F. (New York)
Canfield, Kenneth S. (New York)
Cardozo, Michael A. (New York)
Carlyle, JaQay Lonnie (New York)
Carroll, Jacqueline B. (New York)
Carter, Vincent James (New York)
Gallagher, Michael L. (New York)
Girardi, Thomas Vincent (New York)
Griffin, Keith David (New York)
Hansen, Daniel John (New York)
Harras, John Martin (New York)
Hawkins, Christian Elizabeth (New York)
Hegarty, Matthew Joseph (New York)
Kpota, Oscar Stephane (New York)
Landon, Allen Bywaters (New York)
McGillivary, Gregory Keith (New York)
McHaney, Jacqueline Sue (New York)
McNamara, Kathleen M (New York)
Nakajima, W. Matthew (New York)
Platten, Christopher Eugene (New York)
Pullos, James Charles (New York)
Ringel, Andrew David (New York)
Rosen, Laurence Matthew (New York)
Schmedlin, William Francis (New York)
Sorich, Michael Jude (New York)
Aboushi, Tahanie Ahmad (New York)
Adams, Daniel Lloyd (New York)
Agro, Jill Kornhauser (New York)
Aldarondo-Lopez, Eliezer Alberto (New York)
Aldarondo-Ortiz, Eliezer (New York)
Aliff-Ortiz, Claudio (New York)
Allred, Raymond Sanders (New York)
Anakhu, Joy Tolulope (New York)
Aribakan, Suzanne Emily (New York)
Arko, Christopher G. (New York)
Aronson, Jonathan Bruce (New York)
Avorn, Andrew Tucker (New York)
Bahrenburg, Richard (New York)
Balog, Aliza Jordana (New York)
Barker, Kami Zumbach (New York)
Barnett, Camille Danielle (New York)
Barringer, Maisie Anne (New York)
Battistoni, Thomas Patrick (New York)
Bauer, Mary Catherine (New York)
Beath, Patrick Neil (New York)
Begun, Laura Nicole (New York)
Bergman, Zachary Russell (New York)
Bilfield, Murray D. (New York)
Birnbaum, Brooke Allyson (New York)
Blanchard, David M. (New York)
Blum, Carolyn Patty (New York)
Boucher, Richard Alan (New York)
Bouriat, Christopher Saleh (New York)
Bradshaw, Drexel Andrew (New York)
Brancart, Elizabeth N (New York)
Brancart, Christopher A (New York)
Branch, Jennifer Lynn (New York)
Bratton, Janaya Trotter (New York)
Braun, Daniel Michael (New York)
Breslow, Stephanie Marie (New York)
Brice, Kenton Scott (New York)
Brocker, Peter William (New York)
Brooke, Samuel Jacob (New York)
Brooks, Jeffrey Charles (New York)
Bruzzese, Sheryl Ann (New York)
Burnham, Margaret A. (New York)
Byrns, Katherine Abigail (New York)
Calhoun, Stephanie Joy (New York)
Calistro, Phyllis Gail (New York)
Canfield, Donna Anne (New York)
Carminati, Maria-Vittoria Galli (New York)
Carpenter, Megan Burrows (New York)
Carpenter, Julie Moore (New York)
Carr, Patrick Eugene (New York)
Carter, Jason James (New York)
Castro, Johana Vanessa (New York)
Castro-Ortiz, Ivan M. (New York)
Cavalieri, Meghan Ann (New York)
Cervantez, Eve Hedy (New York)
Chen, Caroline Ling-Yu (New York)
Christensen, Jeanne M (New York)
Christman, Andrew Wayne (New York)
Chudd, Daniel Edward (New York)
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Cirkiel, Martin Jay (New York)
Clark, Kevin Michael (New York)
Cohen, Jessica Talia (New York)
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Conlin, Cynthia Ariel (New York)
Connelly, Matthew Patrick (New York)
Connelly, Michael P. (New York)
Cooke, Brenda Elaine (New York)
Corn-Revere, Robert (New York)
Cortez, Marie Christine (New York)
Costa, Benjamin Anthony (New York)
Crabtree, Robert K. (New York)
D'Andrea, Theresa Jeanine (New York)
Danieleski, Manda L. (New York)
Daniels, Paul Anthony (New York)
Davis, Nicholas Shea (New York)
Dawkins, Julinda A. (New York)
DeCastro, Maria Fernanda (New York)
Del-Valle-Cruz, Carlos (New York)
Demond, William Pieratt (New York)
Dempsey, Patricia A. (New York)
DePaul, Philip Rudolph (New York)
Depoian, Carolyn Kay (New York)
Dervin, James Monroe (New York)
Desmond, James Finbar (New York)
Desormeau, Katherine (New York)
DiSenso, Anthony M. (New York)
Dole-Merson, Vivian (New York)
Dougherty, Jeffrey Anthony (New York)
Downey, Glen Stephen (New York)
Edwards, Bradley James (New York)
Eichenholtz, Eric Jay (New York)
Eichenholtz, Seth D. (New York)
Eisenberg, Michael DJ (New York)
Ellington, C. Ronald (New York)
Elliot, Jonathan D. (New York)
Endersby, Austen C. (New York)
England, Christine Gealy (New York)
Englert, Eviana Linnea (New York)
Fabian, Shawn David (New York)
Faddis, Hannah Victoria (New York)
Farrar, Brian Jeremy (New York)
Farrell, Odile Maun (New York)
Feibelman, Frank Morris (New York)
Fett, Baree Nichole (New York)
Fierberg, Douglas E. (New York)
Filipovits, Jeffrey (New York)
Filippatos, Parisis G. (New York)
Finckbeiner, John Joseph (New York)
Finsten, James Jacob (New York)
Fitzgibbon, Kaitlin E. (New York)
Fitzpatrick, Thomas Okuda (New York)
Fogarty, Peter John (New York)
Fraioli, Joseph Anthony (New York)
Francolla, Brian Christopher (New York)
Frank, Philip Sebastian (New York)
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Fretel, Anna Nguyen (New York)
Friedman, Bryce Leigh (New York)
Frommer, Hillary Ann (New York)
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Garcia, Ricardo Antonio (New York)
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Garza, Rochelle Mercedes (New York)
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Gertzer, Michael Keith (New York)
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Iturralde, Christina (New York)
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Kelley, Dugan Patrick (New York)
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Kreindler, Mitchell Reed (New York)
Kruk, Carolyn Elizabeth (New York)
Kubitschek, Carolyn A. (New York)
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Lansdowne, Dennis R. (New York)
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Lindahl, Rebecca K. (New York)
Lindholm, Matthew T (New York)
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Mbabazi, Deborah L. (New York)
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Melo, Michael Thomas (New York)
Mettham, Suzanna Publicker (New York)
Middleton, Jennifer J. (New York)
Miller-Radovic, Lizette (New York)
Miltenberg, Andrew T. (New York)
Mindrutiu, Linda Margareta (New York)
Minko, Anthony James (New York)
Minnah-Donkoh, Kuuku Angate (New York)
Mitchell, Alison Sue (New York)
Mitchell, Thomas W. (New York)
Mitola, John Richard (New York)
Modafferi, Matthew J. (New York)
Montanez, Carlos E. (New York)
Morris, Shannah Jean (New York)
Moston, Rachel Kane (New York)
Mouton, Gregory Paul (New York)
Mowers, Jeffrey Arthur (New York)
Mulholland, Lee-Anne (New York)
Murray, Diana Marsh (New York)
Muschenheim, Mark W. (New York)
Myerberg, Andrew Thomas (New York)
Nealon, Robert Bernard (New York)
Neufeld, Sheryl Rebecca (New York)
Nichols, Wallace R. (New York)
Nichols, Carolyn M. (New York)
Nimick, Virginia Jackson (New York)
Noble, Alexander Macrae (New York)
Norton, Jeffrey Michael (New York)
OBrien, Thomas Joseph (New York)
Ochoa, Lino Humberto (New York)
O'Connell, Penelope B. (New York)
Odediran, Chigozie F (New York)
O'Keefe, Timothy L. (New York)
Okereke, Amy Nkemka (New York)
Okum, Bess Messerman (New York)
Orlandi, Anthony A. (New York)
Ozment, Harry Elliott (New York)
Passeser, Daniel Louis (New York)
Patrick, Bradford Collins (New York)
Paylor, Alice Fountain (New York)
Payton, Cassandra S (New York)
Peterson, Matthew D (New York)
Philemond, Jessica K (New York)
Phillips, Bradley S (New York)
Pileggi, Francis G.X. (New York)
Pollack, David Michael (New York)
Pollick, Cynthia L. (New York)
Poorman, Jacob Kevin (New York)
Pritchard, Michael Todd (New York)
Priveterre, Joyce Diane (New York)
Profeta, Lawrence John (New York)
Pullio, Robyn Nicole (New York)
Rahman, Tanvir Haque (New York)
Randazza, Marc John (New York)
Rappaport, John Michael (New York)
Rattigan, Margaret Fogerty (New York)
Reddy, Prathyusha Bandi (New York)
Rehkemper, Robert G (New York)
Renaghan, Sean Robert (New York)
Reynolds, Caroline Elizabeth (New York)
Richards, Camiel S. (New York)
Richardson, Lisa Marie (New York)
Risher, Michael Temple (New York)
Rivera, Suzette Corinne (New York)
Rivera-MacMurray, Patricia (New York)
Roberts, Denetra D. (New York)
Roberts, L. Kathleen (New York)
Roberts, Susan Shawn (New York)
Rodriguez, Wilda J. (New York)
Rogers, Shane William (New York)
Roggendorf, Kristian S. (New York)
Ronstadt, Erin Rose (New York)
Rosenbaum, Jonathan E. (New York)
Rosencrantz, Caryn A. (New York)
Rosenkilde, Kiran Hans (New York)
Rosenwasser, Steven (New York)
Rubin, Jennifer Lindsay (New York)
Russell, Peter Damien (New York)
Saavedra, Daniel G. (New York)
Saint-Fort, Dominique F. (New York)
Sampale, Suvarna S. (New York)
Sanders, Elizabeth A. (New York)
Santiago, Leticia Joy (New York)
Sarko, Lynn Lincoln (New York)
Scharfstein, Susan P. (New York)
Schnell, Randi Engel (New York)
Schowengerdt, John S (New York)
Schreiber, Gerhardt Adam (New York)
Schuman, Jennifer Helen (New York)
Schwartz, Thomas E. (New York)
Seacord, Christopher Aaron (New York)
Seligman, Rachel Amy (New York)
Sen, Diana Sagorika (New York)
Sender, Jennifer Lundy (New York)
Sessions, Peter Steffens (New York)
Shaffer, Ryan Glenn (New York)
Shammas, Cheryl Leah (New York)
Shapland, David Eric (New York)
Sheppard, William J. (New York)
Shtelmakher, Milena (New York)
Siddiqi, Omar Javed (New York)
Silverberg, Steven Mark (New York)
Silvermintz, Robyn Leigh (New York)
Silverstein, Alisa Lynn (New York)
Simon, Cari Stephanie (New York)
Singleton, Gerald E. (New York)
Siskind, Shira Rachel (New York)
Sitaras, Basil Constantine (New York)
Slusher, Christopher A. (New York)
Smith, Jordan Michael (New York)
Smith, Katherine Elizabeth (New York)
Smith, Qiana Charmaine (New York)
Smith, William Douglas (New York)
Smith-Williams, Qiana Charmaine (New York)
Speight, Melanie Mary (New York)
Spielberger, Andrew J. (New York)
Spillman, Lindsay Ellis (New York)
Sprovieri, Kathryn M (New York)
Stackhouse, Noreen M. (New York)
State, David Joseph (New York)
Steinberg, James Michael (New York)
Stockman, Benjamin E. (New York)
Storey, Devin Miles (New York)
Stranch, James Gerard (New York)
Strasbaugh, Kathleen J. (New York)
Sugarman, Kenneth John (New York)
Tallberg, James Newhall (New York)
Tann, Sabrina Melissa (New York)
Telfort, Pernell Michael (New York)
Thadani, Kavin Suresh (New York)
Toporek, Alan David (New York)
Vargas, Heather Bond (New York)
Vasquez, Jessica Michelle (New York)
Verde, Joshua Armstrong (New York)
Weiler, Fred Michael (New York)
Weingarten, Richard Keith (New York)
Weir, Matthew Charles (New York)
Welch, Alicia Hayley (New York)
Wells, Elizabeth A. (New York)
Wenzel, Andrew Patrick (New York)
Weston, Kathryn Diane (New York)
White, Elizabeth Louise (New York)
Wickenheiser, Kathryn J. (New York)
Williams-Derry, Amy C (New York)
Winslow, Lamar Devaughn (New York)
Wishnie, Michael Joel (New York)
Wortman, Scott Evan (New York)
Wright, Robert Thomas (New York)
York, William Patrick (New York)
Zalkin, Alexander S (New York)
Zecchin, Anthony E. (New York)
Zgodny, Vicki Becker (New York)
Ziccardi, Richard M. (New York)
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State / Territory: New York
Case Type(s):
Special Collection(s):
Key Dates
Filing Date: May 21, 2011
Closing Date: 2012
Case Ongoing: No
Plaintiffs
Plaintiff Description:
Two livery car passengers who were stopped and searched by the NYPD.
Plaintiff Type(s):
Attorney Organizations:
New York Civil Liberties Union (NYCLU)
Public Interest Lawyer: Yes
Filed Pro Se: No
Class Action Sought: No
Class Action Outcome: Not sought
Defendants
New York Police Department (New York City), City
Case Details
Causes of Action:
Constitutional Clause(s):
Unreasonable search and seizure
Available Documents:
Injunctive (or Injunctive-like) Relief
Outcome
Prevailing Party: Plaintiff
Nature of Relief:
Injunction / Injunctive-like Settlement
Source of Relief:
Form of Settlement:
Court Approved Settlement or Consent Decree
Amount Defendant Pays: 20000
Order Duration: 2012 - 2012
Issues
Policing: