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S.D.N.Y.Procedural orderFiled June 2, 2022

Fleisig v. Hartford Life and Accident Insurance Company

Judge
Denise Cote
Docket
1:21-cv-09341
Court
U.S. District Court · Southern District of New York
Pages
1
Civil ProcedureDiscovery
In one sentence

In Fleisig v. The Hartford Financial Services Group, Inc., Magistrate Judge Aaron set deadlines for Defendant’s response and the parties’ proposed discovery schedule.

Who this affects

The plaintiff, Defendant, and the court-supervised schedule of the case were affected. Defendant received a deadline to respond to the Complaint, and the parties received a later deadline to propose a discovery-completion schedule if Defendant filed an Answer.

What happened

In Fleisig v. The Hartford Financial Services Group, Inc., the court reviewed the parties’ joint letter about a proposed schedule.

The court ordered Defendant to respond to the Complaint by July 8, 2022. If Defendant filed a motion against the Complaint and sought to pause discovery, it had to explain why there was good cause for the pause. If Defendant filed an Answer, the parties had to discuss the schedule and submit a joint letter proposing when discovery should be completed by July 15, 2022.

Magistrate Judge Stewart D. Aaron entered the scheduling order on June 2, 2022.

The detailed version

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

Case
Fleisig v. Hartford Life and Accident Insurance Company · No. 1:21-cv-09341
Judge
Denise Cote
Date
June 2, 2022

Background

The court reviewed a joint letter in which the parties stated their positions about a proposed schedule.

Order

The court ordered Defendant to respond to the Complaint no later than July 8, 2022. If Defendant moved against the Complaint and requested a stay of discovery—a pause in the exchange of information between the parties—Defendant had to state good cause for that stay.

If Defendant filed an Answer, the parties then had to meet and discuss a schedule. They had to file a joint letter proposing a schedule for completing discovery no later than July 15, 2022.

Disposition

This was a scheduling order. It set deadlines and conditions for the next steps in the case; it did not decide the merits of the claims or defenses.

The authoritative version

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