Case Study - Floyd v. City of NY - Columbia Law School

CASE Study : Floyd V. CITY OF NEW YORK RETRIEVED FROM: CATALYSTS FOR COLLABORATION URL: Photo by: Center for Constitutional Rights If organizations dedicated to litigation have a vision to change some part of world, then they need to build partnerships with others. They need to be accountable to the community and the individuals most affected by the problem they are trying to solve. Joo-Hyun Kang, Director of Communities United for Police Reform BACKGROUND Floyd , et al. v. City of New York, et al., was a landmark federal class action lawsuit that addressed the controversial stop-and-frisk policies of the New York Police Department. The case was the result of significant collaboration of multiple advocacy, legal, and community groups that challenged the racially motivated stop and search tactics of the police. In August 2013, a federal judge held that New York City violated the Fourth Amendment of the Constitution which protects citizens from unreasonable searches and seizures and the Fourteenth Amendment which guarantees equal protection of all citizens under the law by systematically stopping innocent people in the street without any objective reason to suspect them of wrongdoing.

Analysis of the data found that the annual number of stops conducted by ... The movement also provided critical human capital for the case. Lawyers ... elevated to the ongoing political discourse of the day, including eventually becoming a …

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