New York’s Suffolk County, home to the ultra-wealthy Hamptons and the bucolic North Fork, must pay $112 million in damages to immigrants after a court ruled that their detention in local jails violated their rights.
The Long Island county disclosed the verdict, which it is appealing, to bondholders in a filing this week. A jury granted the award in November following a trial over a lawsuit filed in 2017 in federal court. The suit, which dropped during the first Trump administration, alleged hundreds of foreigners were held past their release dates.