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S.D.N.Y.Procedural orderFiled Feb. 28, 2022

Todd v. Silverman

Judge
Nelson Roman
Docket
7:20-cv-03608
Court
U.S. District Court · Southern District of New York
Pages
1
Motion to DismissCivil ProcedurePro Se
In one sentence

In Todd v. Silverman, Judge Roman granted defendants’ dismissal motion and dismissed Keith Todd’s complaint entirely without leave to replead.

Who this affects

Keith Todd’s complaint was dismissed in its entirety, and his request to appeal without paying filing fees was denied; the case was closed.

What happened

Todd v. Silverman involved Keith Todd’s complaint against Leroy Fields, Adam W. Silverman, Anne Marie McGrath, Tina Stanford, and Anthony J. Annucci. The judgment identifies Todd as representing himself.

The court granted the defendants’ motion to dismiss and dismissed the complaint in its entirety without leave to replead. It also denied Todd permission to appeal without paying filing fees, stating that any appeal would not be taken in good faith, and closed the case.

Judge Nelson Roman’s underlying Opinion and Order supplied the reasons for the dismissal, but that Opinion and Order is not included in the provided text. The judgment itself does not explain the claims or the court’s reasoning.

The detailed version

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Case
Todd v. Silverman · No. 7:20-cv-03608
Judge
Nelson Roman
Date
Feb. 28, 2022

What the judgment says

The judgment concerns plaintiff Keith Todd and defendants Leroy Fields, Adam W. Silverman, Anne Marie McGrath, Tina Stanford, and Anthony J. Annucci. It states that Todd was representing himself.

The judgment says the defendants moved to dismiss Todd’s complaint. For the reasons stated in the court’s Opinion and Order dated February 25, 2022, the court granted that motion and dismissed the complaint in its entirety without leave to replead. The supplied text does not include the February 25 Opinion and Order, so it does not reveal the claims, arguments, or reasoning behind the dismissal.

Appeal and case status

The court certified under 28 U.S.C. § 1915(a)(3) that an appeal from the order would not be taken in good faith. It therefore denied Todd permission to proceed without paying filing fees for purposes of an appeal. The judgment states that the case is closed.

Classification

This is a procedural order because the court granted a motion to dismiss and the provided judgment does not show that the court decided the underlying legal claims on their merits.

The authoritative version

Read the full 1-page opinion on CourtListener, the free public archive maintained by the Free Law Project.

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