Keung v. Irregular Mikes LLC
- Rochon
- 1:25-cv-03383
- U.S. District Court · Southern District of New York
- 2
In Keung v. Irregular Mikes, Judge Rochon ordered settlement discussions and a joint status letter without deciding the case.
Lin Kwok Keung, Irregular Mikes LLC, and 1152 First Avenue LLC must comply with the settlement-discussion and joint-letter deadlines.
What happened
In Keung v. Irregular Mikes LLC, the court ordered the parties to meet for at least one hour within 30 days after the summons and complaint are served. They must make a good-faith effort to settle and discuss whether Lin Kwok Keung has met the legal requirement of having standing to sue.
If the parties cannot settle, they must also discuss whether court-connected mediation or a settlement conference with a magistrate judge would be useful. Within 45 days after service, they must send the court a joint letter stating whether they settled.
If there is no settlement, the joint letter must ask either for mediation or a magistrate-judge settlement conference, while stating which option the parties prefer, or for an initial status conference. Judge Jennifer L. Rochon did not decide standing or the merits of the case.
The detailed version
- Keung v. Irregular Mikes LLC · No. 1:25-cv-03383
- Rochon
- Apr. 25, 2025
Order
Judge Rochon ordered the parties to meet and confer for at least one hour within 30 days after service of the summons and complaint. The parties must make a good-faith effort to settle the action. The order directs them to consider whether Lin Kwok Keung has satisfied the threshold requirement of standing, meaning the legal requirement that a plaintiff be entitled to bring the dispute in court. The order cites two Second Circuit decisions concerning standing.
If settlement is not reached
If the parties cannot settle on their own, they must discuss whether additional settlement discussions through the district court’s court-annexed mediation program or before a magistrate judge would be productive at that time.
Within 15 additional days—45 days after service of the summons and complaint—the parties must submit a joint letter telling the court whether they settled. If they did not settle, the letter must request either referral to mediation or to a magistrate judge for a settlement conference, and state which option the parties prefer, or an initial status conference.
What the order decided
This order sets settlement and case-management requirements. It does not decide whether Keung has standing or resolve the merits of his claims against Irregular Mikes LLC or 1152 First Avenue LLC.
Read the full 2-page opinion on CourtListener, the free public archive maintained by the Free Law Project.