DeVincenzi v. The City of New York
- Vernon Broderick
- 1:19-cv-06012
- U.S. District Court · Southern District of New York
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In DeVincenzi v. City of New York, Judge Broderick ordered defendants to produce certain post-incident disciplinary summaries about Defendant Rivera.
The order directly affects Sara DeVincenzi and the defendants, requiring the defendants to provide DeVincenzi with specified disciplinary-record summaries concerning Defendant Rivera.
What happened
In DeVincenzi v. The City of New York, the court considered disciplinary-record summaries concerning Defendant Rivera and a July 8, 2016 incident.
The court had previously required defendants to provide summaries of similar allegations from before that incident and to submit withheld summaries for private court review. The court reviewed the withheld materials.
Judge Vernon S. Broderick ordered defendants to produce summaries of Rivera’s disciplinary records involving similar allegations that occurred after July 8, 2016, by March 22, 2021.
The detailed version
- DeVincenzi v. The City of New York · No. 1:19-cv-06012
- Vernon Broderick
- Mar. 8, 2021
Background
The court had previously directed Defendants to produce Plaintiff Sara DeVincenzi with summaries from the IAB, CPI, and CCRB of Defendant Rivera’s disciplinary history. The summaries were to concern allegations similar in nature to the complaint and to predate the July 8, 2016 incident by ten years. The court also directed Defendants to submit any withheld summaries for the court’s private review, known as in-camera review.
The court reviewed the withheld disciplinary summaries. It cited decisions stating that events after a disputed incident may be relevant to the participants’ intent and to patterns of institutional or individual behavior. It also cited authority finding that later misconduct complaints may be relevant when the complaints were made, or the underlying allegations occurred, after the incident at issue.
Ruling
The court ordered Defendants to produce to Plaintiff, by March 22, 2021, summaries of Defendant Rivera’s disciplinary records containing allegations similar in nature to the complaint that postdated the July 8, 2016 incident. The opinion does not state the contents of the summaries or identify the specific allegations involved.
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