[Cboldt]

-- If separate plaintiffs bring civil actions based on the state's depravation of their civil rights, it will get very expensive for NY very quickly. --

I submit that is a price the state is willing to subject the taxpayers to.

The threshold for winning a 1983 action is mightly high.

[PUGACHEV]

“The threshold for winning a 1983 action is mightly high.”

The public statements of Hochul and Adams, among others, are going to effectively reverse the burden on that point.