Ke v. J R Sushi 2 Inc

Background

The order responds to Judge Engelmayer’s March 24, 2025 opinion and order. It identifies two issues for further consideration: whether Yi Mei Ke herself engaged in “willfulness, bad faith, or reasonably serious fault” that could warrant dismissal, and whether additional sanctions should be imposed directly on Troy Law, PLLC, beyond sanctions previously imposed.

Scheduling and briefing requirements

Judge Moses scheduled a conference for April 17, 2025, at 11:00 a.m. in Courtroom 20A of the Daniel Patrick Moynihan Courthouse. The plaintiff and defendants may each submit a brief of no more than eight double-spaced pages. The plaintiff’s brief is due April 3, 2025, and the defendants’ brief is due April 10, 2025.

The plaintiff’s brief must be supported by an attorney declaration listing every contact between Troy Law and Yi Mei Ke from March 28, 2022, through May 20, 2024. For each contact, Troy Law must disclose the date and time, the participating Troy Law personnel, the method of communication, and, for real-time communications such as meetings, telephone calls, or video conferences, the duration.

Translation requirement and disposition

The parties may submit additional declarations with their briefs. If a declaration is written in English by a person who is not fluent in English, the relying party must provide a certified translation in the person’s native language and admissible evidence showing that the translation was provided before the person signed the English-language declaration. The order also permits the person to sign in their native language, provided that the relying party submits a certified English translation.

This order schedules a conference and supplemental briefing; it does not itself decide whether dismissal is warranted or whether additional sanctions should be imposed. Judge Barbara Moses issued the order on March 26, 2025.