# Nunez v. City of New York **Status: stub — expand.** The long-running federal class action over violence and dysfunction in the New York City jail system, brought by detainees and joined by federal prosecutors, resolved by consent decree and then supervised through a federal monitor for roughly a decade. Its significance to the enforcement of court orders is that it is the clearest modern worked example of [[Receivership]] — the remedy of last resort, reached only after years of documented non-compliance with a decree the defendant itself agreed to. - **13 May 2025** — the district court ordered the jails into receivership, stripping the city of unilateral control. - **27 January 2026** — the court named a **"remediation manager"** with authority to act independently of the mayor and reporting to the district judge rather than to the city, with an office budgeted at roughly $10 million for the following year. The eight-month interval between the order and a named person with a budget is the honest measure of how fast this route moves. No federal agency has ever been placed in receivership. ## See also - [[How a Federal Court Order Is Enforced]] · [[Receivership]] · [[Contempt of Court]]