Rivers v. Sera Security Services, LLC
- Valerie Caproni
- 1:18-cv-08833
- U.S. District Court · Southern District of New York
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In Rivers v. Sera Security Services, LLC, Judge Caproni dismissed the settled case with prejudice and without costs.
Ronnell Rivers and defendants Sera Security Services, LLC, Victor Gil de Rubio, Matthew Hernandez, and Lou Sweet.
What happened
In Rivers v. Sera Security Services, LLC, the parties told the court that they had reached an agreement in principle resolving all issues. The court canceled the scheduled conferences and other deadlines.
The court dismissed the case with prejudice and without costs, including attorneys’ fees, and directed the Clerk of Court to terminate all open motions and close the case.
Judge Valerie Caproni allowed the parties to seek reopening within 30 days if they showed good cause. The parties could also ask the court to retain authority to enforce their settlement by submitting the agreement and a request within that same period.
The detailed version
- Rivers v. Sera Security Services, LLC · No. 1:18-cv-08833
- Valerie Caproni
- Jan. 13, 2020
Background
The parties notified the court that they had reached an agreement in principle resolving all issues in the case. The opinion does not describe the terms of that agreement or the underlying claims.
Order
The court canceled all previously scheduled conferences and other deadlines. It dismissed the case with prejudice and without costs, including attorneys’ fees, to either party. It directed the Clerk of Court to terminate all open motions and close the case.
The order allowed the parties to apply to reopen the case within 30 days. Any such application had to show good cause for keeping the case open in light of the settlement. The order also stated that, if the parties wanted the court to retain jurisdiction—that is, authority—to enforce the settlement agreement, they had to submit the agreement and request that authority within the same 30-day period.
Disposition
Judge Valerie Caproni dismissed the case with prejudice and without costs and closed the case, subject to the stated 30-day procedures for seeking reopening or asking the court to retain jurisdiction to enforce the settlement.
Read the full 2-page opinion on CourtListener, the free public archive maintained by the Free Law Project.