Thomas v. Hairston
- Ronnie Abrams
- 1:24-cv-04584
- U.S. District Court · Southern District of New York
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In Thomas v. Hairston, Judge Abrams discontinued the settled-in-principle case without costs and without prejudice to timely restoration.
Eric Thomas, J.B. Hunt Transport, Inc., and Sean M. Hairston; the case was closed, subject to a timely application to restore it.
What happened
Thomas v. Hairston involved Eric Thomas’s case against J.B. Hunt Transport, Inc. and Sean M. Hairston. The court was told that the case had been settled in principle.
The court discontinued the action without costs to any party. It allowed either side to ask to restore the case to the court’s docket within 30 days.
Judge Ronnie Abrams also said that any request to reopen filed after 30 days could be denied solely because it was late. The court directed the Clerk of Court to close the case.
The detailed version
- Thomas v. Hairston · No. 1:24-cv-04584
- Ronnie Abrams
- July 7, 2025
Background
The court stated that it had been informed that the case was settled in principle. The opinion does not provide the settlement’s terms or state whether a final settlement agreement had been completed.
Court’s Action
The court ordered that the action be discontinued without costs to any party and without prejudice to restoring it to the court’s docket if an application to restore was made within 30 days. Any application to reopen filed after that period could be denied solely because it was late.
The court also stated that, if the parties wanted the court to retain jurisdiction to enforce a settlement agreement, the agreement’s terms had to be placed on the public record and approved by the court within the same 30-day period. The Clerk of Court was directed to close the case.
Disposition and Classification
This was a procedural order closing the case after the reported settlement in principle; the court did not decide the underlying claims. Judge Ronnie Abrams discontinued the action under the stated terms.
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