UPDATE 2: SUNY – LICH talks continue, hearing delayed Thursday morning in Brooklyn
Within a whisper of an agreement
UPDATE TWO: Lawyers working around the clock are very close to announcing a settlement in the case of Long Island College Hospital (LICH), attorney Jim Walden of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, who represents six pro-LICH community groups, said Thursday morning.
“We have reached an agreement in principle and are within a whisper of an agreement,” he told the Brooklyn Eagle Thursday morning. If all proceeds according to plan, attorneys for the State University of New York (SUNY), the state Department of Health (DOH) and a coalition fighting SUNY’s attempts to close LICH will report on their progress to state Supreme Court Justice Johnny Lee Baynes at 12:30 p.m. and return to court at 2 p.m. to announce details of the setlement.