Hendrickson v. Maimonides Medical Center
- Analisa Torres
- 1:21-cv-07808
- U.S. District Court · Southern District of New York
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In Hendrickson v. Maimonides Medical Center, Judge Moses transferred the employment-discrimination action to the Eastern District of New York under federal venue statutes.
Minnie Hendrickson, Maimonides Medical Center, and the individual defendants; the case was moved from the Southern District of New York to the Eastern District of New York.
What happened
In Hendrickson v. Maimonides Medical Center, Minnie Hendrickson, representing herself, sued Maimonides Medical Center and individual employees, alleging employment discrimination. Most defendants had answered, but Steven Tyler and Tamar Motov had not yet been served.
The parties agreed to transfer the action because Hendrickson, the answering defendants, and the relevant conduct were connected to the Eastern District of New York. The court ordered the case transferred there under federal venue laws and directed the clerk to close the case in the Southern District of New York.
Magistrate Judge Barbara Moses issued the order on February 1, 2022. The order transferred the action and did not decide the employment-discrimination claims.
The detailed version
- Hendrickson v. Maimonides Medical Center · No. 1:21-cv-07808
- Analisa Torres
- Feb. 1, 2022
Background
Minnie Hendrickson, proceeding without a lawyer and without paying the filing fee, filed a complaint alleging employment discrimination by Maimonides Medical Center and various individual Maimonides employees. The complaint was filed in the Southern District of New York.
Most defendants appeared and answered the complaint. Steven Tyler and Tamar Motov, whose name the order says is sometimes rendered as “Tamer Mobu,” had not yet been served despite attempts to serve them.
Transfer
The plaintiff and all answering defendants resided in the Eastern District of New York, and the conduct underlying the claims occurred at Maimonides in that district. During a February 1, 2022 telephone case-management conference, the parties agreed that the action should be transferred to the Eastern District of New York.
The order explains that a venue transfer is a non-dispositive matter, meaning it does not resolve the parties’ underlying claims. It cites federal venue statutes allowing transfer under 28 U.S.C. §§ 1404(a) and 1406(a).
Ruling and effect
Magistrate Judge Barbara Moses ordered that the action be transferred to the Eastern District of New York. She directed the clerk to complete the transfer immediately, mail the order to the plaintiff, and close the case in the Southern District of New York. The order did not decide whether the alleged employment discrimination occurred or whether any defendant was liable.
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