• In another Legal Aid-related suit, Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe is co-counsel along with the society in a class action that claims juveniles held in New York’s youth detention facilities suffer from widespread physical abuse and a lack of adequate mental health care. The plaintiffs won an apparent victory on Wednesday when federal district court Judge Paul Crotty in Manhattan indicated he would likely decide to keep the suit in Manhattan at a hearing next month, court records show.
Such a decision would mark a loss for the state attorney general’s office, which represents the defendants–including Gladys Carrion, the commissioner of the New York State Office of Children and Family Services–and wants the case transferred upstate, according to court records.