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

Holland v. B&Z Auto Enterprises, L.L.C.

Judge
Vyskocil
Docket
1:21-cv-05401
Court
U.S. District Court · Southern District of New York
Pages
1
Civil ProcedureContract
In one sentence

In Holland v. B&Z Auto Enterprises, Judge Vyskocil discontinued the action after a settlement in principle, setting April 28, 2022, as the restoration deadline.

Who this affects

Rudolph Holland, Courtney Holland, B&Z Auto Enterprises, L.L.C. doing business as Riverdale Chrysler Jeep, CCAP Auto Lease Ltd., and Santander Consumer USA Inc. doing business as Chrysler Capital.

What happened

In Holland v. B&Z Auto Enterprises, the court received a letter from the defendants reporting that the parties had reached a settlement in principle.

The court discontinued the action without costs to any party. The parties could ask to restore the case to the court’s calendar if they could not put their settlement in writing, but they had to make that request by April 28, 2022.

Judge Mary Kay Vyskocil ordered that if no restoration request was made by that date, the dismissal would be with prejudice, meaning the action could not be reopened through that procedure.

The detailed version

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

Case
Holland v. B&Z Auto Enterprises, L.L.C. · No. 1:21-cv-05401
Judge
Vyskocil
Date
Mar. 28, 2022

Background

The defendants filed a letter informing the court that the parties had reached a settlement in principle. The opinion does not describe the underlying claims or the settlement’s terms.

Order

The court ordered that the action be discontinued without costs to any party and without prejudice to restoring the action to the court’s calendar if the parties were unable to memorialize their settlement in writing. Any application to restore the action had to be made by April 28, 2022.

Effect of the Order

The order stated that if no application to restore the action was made by April 28, 2022, the dismissal would be with prejudice. Judge Mary Kay Vyskocil did not decide the underlying legal claims.

The authoritative version

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