The U.S. Court of Appeals' decision to remove District Judge Shira Scheindlin from examining the constitutionality of the New York Police Department’s stop-and-frisk policy was “unprecedented and unwarranted," according to civil rights attorneys who filed an appeal on Monday in the federal appeals court. The lawyers argued that the three judges
Decision To Remove Judge In Stop-And-Frisk Case Deeply Flawed: Civil Rights Lawyers
Civil Rights attorneys argued that removing Judge Scheindlin, who had earlier ruled that the NYPD must change its stop-and-frisk policy, was unwarranted.
By Katie Rucke
