Sosa v. Asset Marketing Services, LLC
- Ronnie Abrams
- 1:20-cv-07129
- U.S. District Court · Southern District of New York
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In Sosa v. Asset Marketing Services, LLC, Judge Abrams discontinued the action after an agreement in principle, allowing restoration within 30 days.
Yony Sosa, the people he sought to represent, and Asset Marketing Services, LLC; the case was closed subject to a possible application to restore it within 30 days.
What happened
In Sosa v. Asset Marketing Services, LLC, the court reported that the parties had reached an agreement in principle to settle the case. The opinion does not describe the agreement’s terms.
The court discontinued the action without costs to either party and without prejudice to restoring it if an application was filed within 30 days. The court also directed the Clerk of Court to close the case.
Judge Ronnie Abrams ordered that any request for the court to retain authority to enforce a settlement must place the agreement’s terms on the public record and receive the court’s approval within the same 30-day period.
The detailed version
- Sosa v. Asset Marketing Services, LLC · No. 1:20-cv-07129
- Ronnie Abrams
- Mar. 2, 2021
Background
Yony Sosa brought the action on behalf of himself and all other persons similarly situated against Asset Marketing Services, LLC. The court stated that it had been informed that the parties had reached an agreement in principle to settle the matter. The opinion does not provide the agreement’s terms or decide the underlying claims.
Court’s action
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 Clerk of Court was directed to close the case.
Settlement enforcement
The court stated that, if the parties wanted it to retain authority 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 order did not itself state that the court approved any settlement terms. Judge Ronnie Abrams signed the order on March 2, 2021.
Read the full 1-page opinion on CourtListener, the free public archive maintained by the Free Law Project.