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S.D.N.Y.OtherFiled Oct. 13, 2021

La Spina v. U.S. Attorney's Office

Judge
John Koeltl
Docket
1:21-cv-01556
Court
U.S. District Court · Southern District of New York
Pages
14
Civil ProcedurePro Se
In one sentence

In La Spina v. U.S. Attorney’s Office, Judge Koeltl ordered the clerk to mail Lawrence La Spina a copy of the order and record service.

Who this affects

Lawrence La Spina and the Clerk’s Office; the order directed the clerk to mail La Spina a copy and record service.

What happened

In La Spina v. U.S. Attorney’s Office, the court received an opposition brief from plaintiff Lawrence La Spina, who was representing himself.

The attached brief opposed the defendants’ motion to dismiss and discussed restitution collection, notice, and deductions from La Spina’s Social Security payments. The order itself did not address those arguments.

Judge John G. Koeltl directed the Clerk’s Office to mail a copy of the order to La Spina’s last known address and record service on the docket.

The detailed version

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

Case
La Spina v. U.S. Attorney's Office · No. 1:21-cv-01556
Judge
John Koeltl
Date
Oct. 13, 2021

What the court addressed

The court stated that it had received an opposition brief from plaintiff Lawrence La Spina, who was proceeding without a lawyer. The attached brief opposed the defendants’ motion to dismiss for failure to state a claim and raised arguments about the collection of criminal restitution, notice of an intended debt offset, and deductions from La Spina’s Social Security payments.

What the court ordered

The court did not rule on the motion to dismiss or decide the issues discussed in the attached brief. Instead, Judge John G. Koeltl directed the Clerk’s Office to mail a copy of the order to La Spina’s last known address and to note service on the docket.

The authoritative version

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