Lawrence M. McKenna, a federal judge who in presiding over many high-profile cases in Manhattan rejected two of Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani's police initiatives as infringing on civil liberties, died on Feb. 3 in Brooklyn.He was 89.His death, in a hospice, was confirmed by his son Robert.Judge McKenna, who was appointed to the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York by President George H.W. Bush in 1990, handed down both decisions against the Giuliani administration in 2001, a year before he retired from active service and received senior status.
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