Madariaga v. Mama Cat LLC
Ycela Madariaga and Eduardo Madariaga v. Mama Cat LLC, dba Tompkins Square Bagels, et al.
- Gregory Woods
- 1:24-cv-07715
- U.S. District Court · Southern District of New York
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In Madariaga v. Mama Cat, Judge Cave questioned the proposed settlement and scheduled a conference to discuss approval.
The order affects Ycela Madariaga, Eduardo Madariaga, Mama Cat LLC doing business as Tompkins Square Bagels, the other defendants, and the plaintiffs’ counsel because they must address the court’s questions about the proposed settlement.
What happened
Ycela Madariaga and Eduardo Madariaga and the defendants submitted a motion asking the court to approve their settlement agreement.
The court identified questions about the plaintiffs’ fee agreement with their lawyers, the release language, and a provision barring re-employment. The court scheduled a telephone conference for October 22, 2025, to discuss those issues and the settlement motion.
Judge Sarah L. Cave issued the order, which did not grant or deny the settlement-approval motion.
The detailed version
- Madariaga v. Mama Cat LLC · No. 1:24-cv-07715
- Gregory Woods
- Oct. 20, 2025
Background
The parties submitted a motion on October 14, 2025, asking the court to approve their settlement agreement under the Second Circuit’s requirements for reviewing wage-and-hour settlements.
Issues Identified by the Court
After reviewing the agreement, the court identified three matters for discussion:
- The plaintiffs’ retainer agreement with their counsel was not included with the motion. - The general-release language did not appear to be mutual when the agreement and an attached document were compared. - The agreement included a provision titled “[n]o re-employment.”
Court’s Action
The court scheduled a telephone conference for October 22, 2025, at 11:00 a.m. Eastern Time, to discuss the agreement and the motion. The order did not state that the settlement was approved, denied, or otherwise finally resolved. Judge Sarah L. Cave signed the order as a United States magistrate judge.
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