Opinion ID: 2470930
Heading Depth: 2
Heading Rank: 10

Heading: The Stay Applications

Text: After numerous appeals and cross-appeals were filed, three parties sought stays or injunctions pending appeal. The Caldero Intervenors asked for a stay only as to the portion of the district court's declaratory judgment that stripped minority male recruiting-claim Offerees of seniority stemming from their permanent appointment dates. See United States v. N.Y. City Bd. of Educ., 620 F.Supp.2d 413, 415 (E.D.N.Y. 2009) [hereinafter NYC Board VI ]. The Brennan Intervenors sought to have the City Defendants enjoined from providing any competitive seniority benefits to any beneficiary of the Settlement Agreement executed on February 11, 1999 (`the Agreement') to the extent that (1) the competitive seniority benefit resulted from the Agreement, (2) [the district court] found that those benefits were not a form of make-whole relief to actual victims of discrimination, and (3) [the district court] nonetheless found that the provision of those benefits did not violate the law. Id. at 416 (modification omitted). The City Defendants sought a complete stay of the judgment. Id. The district court denied all three motions, stating that neither the threat of irreparable harm nor the likelihood of success on appeal is sufficiently one-sided to justify disturbing what the Court believes to be the legally correct result. Id. at 417.