Suffolk County wants judge to toss $112M judgment over immigration detainees: court docs

Source: New York Post

Suffolk County is seeking to pull the rug out from under a $112 million class-action payout to immigration detainees who were held longer than legally allowed — claiming the jury’s decision to hand over such a bloated payout was “fundamentally flawed. ” County officials appeared in federal court last week fighting to have last November’s landmark verdict thrown out or a new trial ordered over whether the whopping price tag can stand, according to court papers. The decade-old case, which was filed during President Trump’s first term in 2017, stems from Suffolk’s policy to honor federal ICE detainer requests under former Sheriff Vincent DeMarco, which was found by the state to be unlawful in 2018.