Legal Question in Civil Rights Law in New York

Re: Co op Board refuses to give me a copy of videotape.

Absent a court action, they do not have to give you the tape, but if you start a legal action they will be required to do so as part of the discovery process.

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Re: Co op Board refuses to give me a copy of videotape.

Generally you would have to be in the middle of a law suit in order to have a right to access to the tape, as evidence.

I would immediately contact an attorney willing to handle this case on contingency, meaning no charge what so ever to you unless he wins the case.

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Carlos Gonzalez, Esq.

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Re: Co op Board refuses to give me a copy of videotape.

Yes you do. Either they are hoping you will give up, or they are hoping that you won't go to court, which is the only way you can force them to turn it over(a subpoena or court order.)

If you were injured, and there is a chance you may actually need it to prove your case, keep track of everything that happens now with regard to the tape. In the event it is erased or destroyed, that is called spoliation of evidence, and would entitle you to a favorable

inference, adverse to the coop's interest, in a jury charge.