Hassan v. City of New York, 804 F.3d 277 (3d Cir. 2015)
Oct 13, 2015OUTCOME: U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit held that plaintiffs stated viable constitutional claims, reversing District Court dismissal.
Challenge to New York City Police Department's suspicionless surveillance program. "What occurs here in one guise is not new. We have been down similar roads before. Jewish-Americans during the Re ... d Scare, African-Americans during the Civil Rights Movement, and Japanese-Americans during World War II are examples that readily spring to mind. We are left to wonder why we cannot see with foresight what we see so clearly with hindsight—that “[l]oyalty is a matter of the heart and mind[,] not race, creed, or color.” Ex parte Mitsuye Endo, 323 U.S. 283, 302 (1944). "
