Jury’s $112 Million Detention Award is Extreme, NY County Argues

Long Island’s Suffolk County argued during a hearing Tuesday that a $112 million jury award was “excessive” and influenced by a specific dollar amount proposed by attorneys for immigrants alleging their rights were violated when they were detained in local jails.

Judge William F. Kuntz II of the US District Court for the Eastern District of New York didn’t signal how he may rule during nearly three hours of oral arguments where attorneys for Suffolk County, home to the Hamptons, urged him to set aside the November 2025 jury verdict, order a new trial, and decertify the class of ...