Galvez Duran v. T&S Restaurant LLC
- Sarah Netburn
- 1:20-cv-07090
- U.S. District Court · Southern District of New York
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In Galvez Duran v. T&S Restaurant, Judge Netburn ordered the parties to submit their proposed settlement for review by April 25, 2022.
The parties to Nestor Ismael Galvez Duran’s Fair Labor Standards Act case against T&S Restaurant LLC and the other named defendants.
What happened
In Galvez Duran v. T&S Restaurant LLC, the parties reached a settlement in principle in a Fair Labor Standards Act case and agreed that Judge Sarah Netburn could review whether the settlement was fair.
Judge Netburn instructed the parties to submit the signed settlement agreement by April 25, 2022. She also stated that the agreement must be filed publicly unless a party could meet the legal standard for sealing it.
The order did not approve or reject the settlement. Judge Sarah Netburn issued instructions for the court’s settlement review.
The detailed version
- Galvez Duran v. T&S Restaurant LLC · No. 1:20-cv-07090
- Sarah Netburn
- Apr. 20, 2022
Background
Nestor Ismael Galvez Duran brought a case under the Fair Labor Standards Act, a federal law governing matters such as minimum wages and overtime. The parties told the court that they had agreed to a settlement in principle and consented to Judge Sarah Netburn’s jurisdiction to review whether the settlement was fair.
Order
The court instructed the parties to submit the executed settlement agreement for review no later than Monday, April 25, 2022. The court also ordered that the agreement be filed publicly through the court’s electronic filing system unless a party established a basis for sealing it under the standard identified in Lugosch v. Pyramid Co. of Onondaga.
Disposition
The order set the procedure for reviewing the proposed settlement. It did not state that the court had approved or rejected the settlement.
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