Friedberg v. Walmart Corp
- Laura Swain
- 1:25-cv-08057
- U.S. District Court · Southern District of New York
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In Friedberg v. Walmart Corp., Judge Swain dismissed the complaint without prejudice after Friedberg neither paid filing fees nor submitted a fee-waiver application.
Donna L. Friedberg's complaint was dismissed without prejudice; the order ended the case at the district-court level without addressing the complaint's underlying claims.
What happened
In Donna L. Friedberg v. Walmart Corp., et al., the court had ordered Friedberg to submit a completed application to waive the filing fee or pay the required $405 within thirty days.
Friedberg did neither. The court dismissed the complaint without prejudice and directed the clerk to enter judgment.
Judge Laura Taylor Swain also ruled that an appeal would not be taken in good faith and denied fee-waiver status for any appeal.
The detailed version
- Friedberg v. Walmart Corp · No. 1:25-cv-08057
- Laura Swain
- Nov. 10, 2025
Background
By an order dated October 8, 2025, the court directed Donna L. Friedberg to either submit a completed application to proceed without paying the filing fee or pay the $405 required to file a civil action. The court warned that failure to comply would result in dismissal.
Ruling
Friedberg did not submit the application or pay the filing fee. The court therefore dismissed the complaint without prejudice. The court also directed the clerk to enter judgment.
Appeal-related ruling
The court certified under 28 U.S.C. § 1915(a)(3) that any appeal from the order would not be taken in good faith. It therefore denied fee-waiver status for purposes of an appeal.
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