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S & P Investment Group, LLC v. Kingdom Materials Holdings LLC

Judge
Ronnie Abrams
Docket
1:20-cv-02112
Court
U.S. District Court · Southern District of New York
Pages
1
Civil Procedure
In one sentence

In S & P Investment Group v. Kingdom Materials Holdings, Judge Abrams ordered Plaintiff to explain its plans concerning Kingdom Resources by February 16, 2021.

Who this affects

S & P Investment Group, LLC was required to submit a letter by February 16, 2021, concerning how it intended to proceed against Kingdom Resources, LLC. Kingdom Resources faced possible dismissal from the action if Plaintiff did not comply.

What happened

In S & P Investment Group, LLC v. Kingdom Materials Holdings LLC, the Court had ordered Plaintiff to explain how it intended to proceed against Kingdom Resources, LLC after Kingdom Materials Holdings said the two companies were not affiliated.

Plaintiff did not meet the first deadline and also failed to respond by a later deadline. The Court gave Plaintiff until February 16, 2021, to submit a letter explaining how it would proceed against Kingdom Resources.

Judge Ronnie Abrams warned that the Court would dismiss Kingdom Resources, LLC from the case if Plaintiff did not comply. The February 9 order did not itself dismiss that defendant.

The detailed version

For law students, journalists, and other readers who want the full reasoning

Case
S & P Investment Group, LLC v. Kingdom Materials Holdings LLC · No. 1:20-cv-02112
Judge
Ronnie Abrams
Date
Feb. 9, 2021

Background

On January 13, 2021, the Court ordered Plaintiff to inform it how Plaintiff intended to proceed against Defendant Kingdom Resources, LLC. The order followed Kingdom Materials Holdings LLC’s representation that it and Kingdom Resources were not affiliated. Plaintiff was directed to respond by January 20, 2021, but did not timely comply.

The Court then issued a second order requiring Plaintiff to reply by February 5, 2021, and warned that failure to comply could result in sanctions.

Order

The Court ordered Plaintiff to submit a letter by February 16, 2021, advising how it intended to proceed against Kingdom Resources, LLC. The Court stated that if Plaintiff failed to comply by that date, it would dismiss Kingdom Resources, LLC from the action. The opinion does not state that the dismissal had already occurred.

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