Update: According to reader Susan Raboy (see comments) there will be no hearing today (Thursday, February 20). We will update with a new top post as soon as more information is available. Shortly after this morning’s hearing began, the Eagle’s Mary Frost reports, representatives of the two union plaintiffs in the action against SUNY’s aattempt […]
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LICH Contempt Hearing On Tomorrow Morning
The Eagle reports that the hearing to determine whether SUNY, its Board of Trustees and officials should be held in contempt for violation of court orders barring actions to close Long Island College Hospital will be held tomorrow (Tuesday, February 18) morning starting at 10:00, with security doors opening at 9:00, at the Kings County […]
LICH Contempt Hearing Postponed to February 11; SUNY Makes Settlement Offer
We previously reported that the hearing to ddtermine whehter SUNY should be found in contempt of court orders mandating the continuation of hospital services at Long Island College Hospital had been postponed from today (Tuesday, January 21) at least until tomorrow. Now, thanks to Bill Ringler, former chairperson of the Riverside Tenants’ Association, we know […]
LICH Update: Contempt Hearing Postponed
Judy Stanton, Executive Director of the Brooklyn Heights Association, advises us that the court hearing to determine whether SUNY should be held in contempt of court orders concerning Long Island College Hospital will not be held this coming Tuesday, January 21, as had previously been announced. ” As of now,” she said, “Tuesday will be […]
Lecture on Co-Op Shareholders’ and Tenants’ Rights at Brooklyn Bar Ass’n This Evening
This evening (Monday, January 13) there will be “an informational lecture on co-operative apartments and the rights of shareholders and renters under the Martin Act and New York State Constitution in New York City” from 6:00 to 7:30 at the Brooklyn Bar Association, 123 Remsen Street (between Clinton and Henry). “Topics will include leases, dealing […]
Battle for LICH is Not Over: Lawyer for BHA and Others
The Brooklyn Heights Association has sent us a letter from Jim Walden of Gibson Dunn LLP, attorney for the BHA and other petitioners opposing the closure of Long Island College Hospital. In it, Mr. Walden assures those concerned that even if, as expected, SUNY’s Board of Trustees votes to select an as yet unnamed party […]
SUNY Issues Layoff Notices to 500 LICH Workers
Update: there will be a complete LICH update at the Cobble Hill Association’s Fall Meeting this Monday, October 28, 7:30 p.m., at the Cobble Hill Health Center, 380 Henry Street. More details here. According to Crain’s New York Business, SUNY Downstate Medical Center has sent layoff notices to 500 workers at Long Island College Hospital. […]
#SaveLICH Flash: Justice Demarest Orders Ambulances Back
The Brooklyn Daily Eagle reports that New York Supreme Court Justice Carolyn Demarest has ordered the restoration of ambulance service to Long Island College Hospital, along with a re-opening of LICH’s Intensive Care Unit. Ambulance and emergency services must be restored by 3:00 p.m. this coming Monday, August 26. Justice Demarest has scheduled another hearing […]
#SaveLICH Court Hearing Tomorrow Morning
Update: The hearing will continue tomorrow (Thursday, August 8), at 10:00 a.m., same place. There will be a hearing tomorrow (Wednesday, August 7) at 10:00 a.m. in Justice Johnny Lee Baynes’ courtroom on the fourth floor of 360 Adams Street at which oral arguments in the lawsuit against SUNY Downstate’s plan to close Long Island […]
#SaveLICH: Millman and de Blasio Intervene to Get Sick Infant Admitted; AG Investigating Disappearance of 81 Year Old with Dementia
Update: LICH still open; another court hearing Wednesday (NY1); another #SaveLICH rally tomorrow (Sunday, July 28) at noon across from the main entrance at 339 Hicks Street. According to State Assembly Member Joan Millman’s office, administrators at Long Island College Hospital tried to deny treatment to a sick eleven month old infant who had been […]
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