Nunez v. N.Y.C. Department of Correction

• Court: District Court, S.D. New York
• Decided: June 14, 2024
• Docket: 1:11-cv-05845
• Status: Unknown

Opinion

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D D JUI A LA N IN AIE E P LL . J. K .H K UO AOU NRK N STEIN FT wAE wXL w: : ( (2 2 e1 1 c2 2 b) ) a w7 76 6 m3 3- - c5 5 o0 0 m0 00 1 ARD IAA DNH NIA E EL N M N M .A . EH E L B I LS SR E WU ND OBN RERE TY HG HAL R. LIEBERMAN SARA LUZ ESTELA ILANN M. MAAZEL LAURA S. KOKOTAILO KATHERINE ROSENFELD SONYA LEVITOVA ZOE SALZMAN SARAH MAC DOUGALL SAM SHAPIRO SANA MAYAT EARL S. WARD HARVEY PRAGER O.ANDREW F. WILSON VIVAKE PRASAD MAX SELVER EMILY K. WANGER MEMO ENDORSED RACHAEL WYANT May 30, 2024 By ECF Honorable Laura Taylor Swain United States District Court Southern District of New York 500 Pearl Street New York, NY 10007-1312 Re: Nunez v. City of New York, 11 Civ. 5845 (LTS) Dear Judge Swain: We write on behalf of the Plaintiff Class. Pursuant to Section 5(b)(ii) of the Court’s Individual Rules of Practice, and paragraph 8 of the Amended Protective Order Concerning Confidential Information, Dkt. 89 (the “Amended Protective Order”), we write to request permission to file under seal Exhibits 154, 156, 158-169 to the Declaration of Mary Lynne Werlwas dated May 30, 2024, which are also listed in the table below. We also seek permission to redact from the public filings Plaintiffs’ Supplemental Proposed Findings of Fact portions that discuss content that is exclusively contained in the Exhibits filed under seal. We are contemporaneously filing under seal an unredacted version of the Supplemental Proposed Findings of Fact showing in highlight the text that has been redacted from the publicly-filed version of this document. We are filing Exhibit 152, excerpts from the Preliminary Review Spreadsheets, with the identifying names and camera angles redacted, and with the City’s consent. We can file the exhibit without redactions upon the Court’s request. These Exhibits were produced by Defendants with the designation of Confidential or Attorneys’ Eyes Only. Defendants confirmed by email dated May 28, 2024 that they requested all of these Exhibits to be filed under seal. EMERY CELLI BRINCKERHOFF ABADY WARD & MAAZEL LLP Page 2

Plaimtiffs take no position on whether the following exhibits should remain under seal. Filed under Ex. | DOC Material seal DOC’s First Compliance Report, March 30, 2016 NCU’s COD Assessments from 2023 and 2024 NCU Security Audit: 2023.10.19 RMSC Building 1 NCU Security Audit: 2023.11.13 RNDC 2LS NCU Security Audit: 2023.12.13 RNDC 2LN NCU Security Audit: 2023.12.15 OBCC 5 South West NCU Security Audit: 2023.12.17 GRVC 7A NCU Security Audit: 2024.01.02 RNDC SLN NCU Security Audit: 2024.01.17 GRVC 4B NCU Security Audit: 2024.02.05 GRVC 3A NCU Security Audit: Combined 2023.10.03 GRVC 5B and 2023.11.24 GRVC | Yes 166 | 10B NCU Security Audit: Combined 2024.01.16 RNDC 6CN and 2024.01.18 Yes 167 | OBCC 8 Lower NCU Security Audit: Combined 2024.02.01 OBCC 7 Upper and 2024.02.07 Yes 168 | RNDC 2US NCU Security Audit: Combined 2024.02.15 OBCC 7 Lower and 2024.02.15 Yes 169 | RNDC 2CN We thank the Court for its attention to these matters. Respectfully submitted, [sf lsf Mary Lynne Werlwas Debra L. Greenberger Kayla Simpson Jonathan Abady Katherine Haas Katherine Rosenfeld Sophia Gebreselassie Vasudha Talla THE LEGAL AID SOCIETY Sana Mayat PRISONERS’ RIGHTS PROJECT EMERY CELLI BRINCKERHOFF ABADY WARD & MAAZEL LLP Counsel for Plaintiff Class Counsel for Plaintiff Class To be approved, any redaction or sealing of a court filing must be narrowly tailored to serve whatever purpose justifies the redaction or sealing and must be othe] wise consistent with the presumption in favor ofpublic access judicial documents. See_e.g.. Lugosch v. Pyramid Co. of Onondaga, 435 F.3d 110, _ 119-20 (2d Cir. 2006). Defendants are hereby directed to file a letter articulating why the above documents should remain under seal by June 19, 2024, at 12:00 p.m. SO ORDERED.