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Anti Stop and Frisk ruling will not be overturned by Appeals Court
Anti stop and frisk demonstrators hold placards during a silent march in New York, June 17 2012. PHOTO/Seth Wenig/AP
A federal appeals panel on Friday denied a request by lawyers for New York that it overturn a judge’s sweeping ruling on the Police Department’s stop and frisk practices, all but ending the Bloomberg administration’s ability to legally challenge the ruling.
Last month, an appeals panel had suspended the effects of a lower-court ruling.
The city had argued that the panel’s decision to remove federal Judge Shira Scheindlin meant it should also nullify her rulings.
Scheindlin ruled in August that police officers attached to the NYPD carried out stop and frisk unconstitutionally by discriminating against African American and Latino youth.
The court’s action appears to spoil the city’s bid to get Scheindlin’s rulings tossed before a new mayor sympathetic to her viewpoint takes office in January.
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