United States Second Circuit

Plaintiffs' due process rights were violated by the post- seizure, pre-judgment retention of vehicles absent a prompt opportunity to challenge the probable validity of and justification for that deprivation pendente lite.

Appellate Information

• Decided 09/18/2002
• Published 09/18/2002

Judges

• SOTOMAYOR, Circuit Judge., Before: JACOBS, F.I. PARKER, and SOTOMAYOR, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Second Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Thomas M. O'Brien, of counsel, The Legal Aid Society, Criminal Defense Division, New York, NY, for plaintiffs-appellants.


• For Appellees:
  
• Julie Steiner, Assistant Corporation Counsel, New York, NY, for Michael D. Hess, Corporation Counsel of the City of New York (Stephen J. McGrath, on the brief), for defendants-appellees.