Deltoro v. Department of Social Services
- Laura Swain
- 1:25-cv-05445
- U.S. District Court · Southern District of New York
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In Deltoro v. Department of Social Services, Judge Swain dismissed the action and denied permission to appeal without paying filing fees.
Maria Deltoro and Kathy Deltoro, whose action was dismissed and whose permission to appeal without paying filing fees was denied; the listed Department of Social Services-related defendants were no longer required to defend this action in the district court.
What happened
Deltoro v. Department of Social Services involved Maria Deltoro and Kathy Deltoro as plaintiffs and several Department of Social Services-related defendants. The judgment does not describe the claims or the parties’ arguments.
The court said the action was dismissed for the reasons given in an August 12, 2025, order, but that order is not included in the provided text. The available judgment therefore does not explain why the case was dismissed.
On August 14, 2025, Judge Laura Taylor Swain entered judgment dismissing the action. She also ruled that an appeal would not be taken in good faith and denied permission to appeal without paying filing fees.
The detailed version
- Deltoro v. Department of Social Services · No. 1:25-cv-05445
- Laura Swain
- Aug. 14, 2025
What the judgment says
Maria Deltoro and Kathy Deltoro were the plaintiffs. The defendants were listed as the Department of Social Services; Department of Social Services attorneys; a Department of Social Services judge; a Department of Social Services school teacher; and Department of Social Services nurse/doctors.
The court stated: “For the reasons stated in the August 12, 2025, order, this action is dismissed.” The August 12 order is not included in the provided opinion text, so the basis for dismissal and the underlying claims cannot be determined from this judgment alone.
Appeal-related ruling
The court certified under 28 U.S.C. § 1915(a)(3) that any appeal from the judgment would not be taken in good faith. It therefore denied the plaintiffs permission to appeal without paying the filing fees. The judgment cited a Supreme Court decision explaining that good faith exists when an appellant seeks review of a nonfrivolous issue.
Disposition
The action was dismissed. Permission to appeal without paying filing fees was denied. The provided text does not state whether the dismissal reached the merits or rested on a threshold ground; this summary classifies the order as procedural because the judgment itself provides only a dismissal and an appeal-related ruling, while referring to a separate order for its reasons.
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