A Brooklyn Supreme Court justice recently drew inspiration from Mel Brooks in order to better skewer the Brooklyn Public Library (BPL) and its top administrators.

A man named David Rodriguez had filed suit (Rodriguez v. Brooklyn Public Library) in March 2010 against the library, alleging that he had been injured in an April 2009 car crash that involved a library-owned van. In June 2011, BPL sought to have the suit dismissed, claiming that the library was a municipal corporation and entitled to a “notice of claim” within 90 days of any incident, failing which any suit becomes… Read More