In Re: Fairfield Sentry Limited
- Vernon Broderick
- 1:19-cv-03911
- U.S. District Court · Southern District of New York
- 30
In Fairfield Sentry v. Citibank NA London, Judge Broderick set deadlines for appeal briefs without deciding the underlying dispute.
Fairfield Sentry Limited, its foreign representative and liquidator, and the defendants-appellees in the appeals listed in Appendix A, including Citibank NA London.
What happened
Fairfield Sentry Limited, acting through its foreign representative and liquidator, appealed matters involving Citibank NA London and other parties listed in an appendix. The court had lifted a stay on briefing and directed the parties to propose a schedule for the appeals.
After the parties jointly proposed a schedule, the court ordered that the opening brief be filed by July 21, 2021, the opposition brief by October 19, 2021, and the reply brief by December 3, 2021. The order addressed briefing only and did not decide the underlying disputes.
Judge Vernon S. Broderick entered the scheduling order on April 23, 2021, according to the supplied case information.
The detailed version
- In Re: Fairfield Sentry Limited · No. 1:19-cv-03911
- Vernon Broderick
- Apr. 23, 2021
Background
The order applied to the appeals listed in Appendix A. On March 17, 2021, the court lifted its September 11, 2019 stay as to briefing on appeals that Fairfield Sentry had previously noticed. The court also directed the parties to meet and confer about a briefing schedule for those stayed appeals and for new appeals of right arising from specified bankruptcy-court decisions.
On April 22, 2021, the parties jointly submitted a letter proposing a schedule for the appeals identified as the “Second-Round Appeal.”
Order
The court ordered the following deadlines for the plaintiffs-appellants’ and defendants-appellees’ briefs in the Second-Round Appeal:
- Plaintiffs-appellants’ opening brief: July 21, 2021. - Defendants-appellees’ opposition brief: October 19, 2021. - Plaintiffs-appellants’ reply brief: December 3, 2021.
The order set a briefing schedule only. It did not decide the merits of any appeal or resolve the parties’ underlying disputes. Judge Vernon S. Broderick signed the order.
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