Stephen Yagman v. General Motors Company
- Jesse Furman
- 1:14-cv-09058
- U.S. District Court · Southern District of New York
- 42
In Yagman v. General Motors, Judge Furman granted Yagman’s request to stop electronic case notifications.
Stephen Yagman, whose electronic notifications were terminated in case numbers 14-MD-2543 and 14-CV-9058.
What happened
Yagman v. General Motors concerned an email from Stephen Yagman asking the court to stop sending him electronic case notices. The court said the email violated its filing and communication rules and was inappropriate.
The court treated the email as a motion to stop electronic notifications and granted it. It directed the clerk to stop sending Yagman notifications in both the multidistrict litigation and his related case.
Judge Jesse M. Furman did not impose sanctions for the email, although he said sanctions would have been justified.
The detailed version
- Stephen Yagman v. General Motors Company · No. 1:14-cv-09058
- Jesse Furman
- July 2, 2021
Background
The court received an email from Stephen Yagman asking that electronic case notices stop. The opinion states that Yagman was proceeding without a lawyer. The court said the email violated its rules, which require this type of submission to be filed as a letter through the court’s electronic filing system and generally prohibit direct communications by people representing themselves.
Ruling
The court treated Yagman’s email as a motion to terminate electronic notifications. It granted that motion. The clerk was directed to terminate electronic notifications to Yagman in both case number 14-MD-2543 and case number 14-CV-9058.
The court also described the communication as patently inappropriate and referred to Yagman’s history of inappropriate filings in this and other cases. Although the court stated that it would have been on firm ground sanctioning him, it declined to impose sanctions.
Effect
The order changed how Yagman would receive filings and other electronic notices in the two identified cases. It did not decide the underlying claims in the General Motors ignition-switch litigation.
Read the full 42-page opinion on CourtListener, the free public archive maintained by the Free Law Project.