Loper v. New York City Police Department

MINER, Circuit Judge:

Defendants-appellants The New York City Police Department and Lee F. Brown, Commissioner of the Department, (“City Police”) appeal from a summary judgment entered in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York (Sweet, J.) in. favor of plaintiffs-appellees Jennifer Loper and William Kaye, on behalf of themselves and all others similarly situated (“Plaintiffs”). The district court in this case has certified a plaintiff class consisting of all “needy persons who live in the State of New York, who beg on the public streets or in the public parks of…