Tims v. City of New York

Order, Supreme Court, New York County (Cynthia Kern, J.), entered December 21, 2011, which denied plaintiff’s motion seeking injunctive relief to bar defendant Office of the Chief Medical Examiner (OCME) from disclosing the cause and manner of death of her son, Pastor Zachery Tims, Jr., to the public, and granted the defendants’ cross motion for summary judgment seeking a declaration that OCME may, upon inquiry, *458release the cause and manner of death, unanimously affirmed, without costs.

The parties agree that this appeal turns on the meaning of New York City Charter § 557 (g), which concerns…