Gattoni v. Mount Sinai Health System, Inc.
- Vyskocil
- 1:20-cv-02947
- U.S. District Court · Southern District of New York
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In Gattoni v. Mount Sinai, Judge Vyskocil discontinued the action after a settlement in principle, allowing restoration by February 14, 2021, or making dismissal with prejudice.
Deborah Ann Gattoni and the named Mount Sinai defendants, including Mount Sinai Health System, Inc., Mount Sinai Beth Israel Medical Center, and Beth Israel Medical Center.
What happened
Gattoni v. Mount Sinai Health System, Inc. involved the parties’ notice that they had reached a settlement in principle.
The court postponed the upcoming pretrial conference and related filing deadline. It discontinued the action without costs and allowed the parties to ask to restore it if they did not execute a settlement agreement, but only if they made that request by February 14, 2021.
Judge Mary Kay Vyskocil ordered that, if no restoration request was made by that date, the dismissal would be with prejudice. The opinion did not decide the underlying claims or disclose the settlement’s terms.
The detailed version
- Gattoni v. Mount Sinai Health System, Inc. · No. 1:20-cv-02947
- Vyskocil
- Jan. 15, 2021
Background
The parties informed the court by letter that they had reached a settlement in principle. The opinion does not provide the settlement’s terms or state whether the parties ultimately executed a settlement agreement.
Court’s Order
The court adjourned the February 2, 2021 Initial Pretrial Conference and the deadline for submitting a joint letter and proposed case-management and scheduling documents. It ordered that the action be discontinued without costs to any party and without prejudice to restoring the action to the court’s calendar if the parties did not execute a settlement agreement.
The court set February 14, 2021, as the deadline for applying to restore the action. It stated that if no such application was made by that date, the dismissal would be with prejudice. The court did not rule on the underlying claims.
Disposition
Judge Mary Kay Vyskocil entered an order of dismissal conditioned on the parties’ ability to finalize the settlement and comply with the restoration deadline.
Read the full 1-page opinion on CourtListener, the free public archive maintained by the Free Law Project.