East Coast Novelty Co., Inc. v. City of New York

OPINION

SWEET, District Judge.

Plaintiff East Coast Novelty Company (“East Coast”) has moved in limine for an order precluding Defendants City of New York (the “City”), Frank Biehler (“Inspector Biehler”), and Mitchell Kolpan (“Detective Kolpan”) (collectively the “Defendants”) from introducing at trial any evidence, testimony or reference primarily concerning: (1) the prior arrests or convictions of East Coast’s principals; (2) references to “organized crime,” “La Cosa Nostra,” or “the Mafia”; and (3) the invocation of the Fifth Amendment privileges during the respective depositions of Louis…