Global Empire Corporation v. iHerb, Inc.
- Ronnie Abrams
- 1:19-cv-01836
- U.S. District Court · Southern District of New York
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In Global Empire v. iHerb, Judge Abrams discontinued the settled-in-principle case without costs, allowing restoration within 30 days.
Global Empire Corporation and iHerb, Inc., the parties to the discontinued action.
What happened
Global Empire Corporation v. iHerb, Inc. was reported to the court as settled in principle.
The court discontinued the case without costs to either party and without prejudice to restoring it if an application was made within 30 days.
Judge Ronnie Abrams also directed the Clerk of Court to close the case and explained that any settlement-enforcement request would need to meet specified public-record and timing requirements.
The detailed version
- Global Empire Corporation v. iHerb, Inc. · No. 1:19-cv-01836
- Ronnie Abrams
- Aug. 4, 2020
Background
The court stated that it had been told the case was settled in principle. The opinion does not describe the claims, the settlement terms, or the parties’ underlying positions.
Order
The court ordered that the action be discontinued without costs to any party and without prejudice to restoring the action to the court’s docket if an application to restore it was made within 30 days. It stated that 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 it 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. The opinion does not decide the underlying claims.
Disposition
Judge Ronnie Abrams discontinued the action without costs and without prejudice to a timely application to restore it, and directed the Clerk of Court to close the case.
Read the full 1-page opinion on CourtListener, the free public archive maintained by the Free Law Project.