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S.D.N.Y.Procedural orderFiled June 8, 2022

Tapia v. Huaquechula Restaurant Corp.

Judge
Andrew Krause
Docket
7:18-cv-10771-AEK
Court
U.S. District Court · Southern District of New York
Pages
1
Civil Procedure
In one sentence

In Tapia v. Lira, Judge Krause approved the parties’ settlement and terminated three defendants from the action.

Who this affects

The settlement approval affects Andrea Tapia and the other plaintiffs, and it completes the matter only as to Fidel Lira, Mary E. Maloney, and New Killmallock, Inc.; the opinion does not identify the effect on other defendants.

What happened

In Andrea Tapia v. Fidel Lira, the parties changed their proposed settlement agreement as the court had previously directed.

The court reviewed the revised agreement under the legal standards for fair and reasonable settlements. The opinion says the settlement approval completed the matter only as to Fidel Lira, Mary E. Maloney, and New Killmallock, Inc.

Judge Andrew E. Krause approved the settlement and directed the clerk to terminate those three defendants from the action. The order does not say that the entire case was completed.

The detailed version

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

Case
Tapia v. Huaquechula Restaurant Corp. · No. 7:18-cv-10771-AEK
Judge
Andrew Krause
Date
June 8, 2022

Background

The parties modified their proposed settlement agreement as directed in the court’s earlier orders. The opinion refers to those orders as ECF Nos. 108 and 121.

Ruling

The court approved the settlement agreement as fair and reasonable under the standards described in the opinion and in its prior order. The approval completed the matter only with respect to Fidel Lira, also known as Jesus Lira; Mary E. Maloney, also known as Mary Lira; and New Killmallock, Inc. The court directed the clerk to terminate those three defendants from the action. The order does not state that the claims against any other defendants were resolved.

Disposition

The settlement agreement was approved. Fidel Lira, Mary E. Maloney, and New Killmallock, Inc. were terminated from the action. A footnote states that Mary E. Maloney was sued as “Mary E. Moloney.”

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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