Yensy Contreras v. Stewart Charley Ventures, LLC
- Ronnie Abrams
- 1:22-cv-00065
- U.S. District Court · Southern District of New York
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In Yensy Contreras v. Stewart Charley Ventures, Judge Abrams discontinued the action without costs or prejudice while the parties finalized a settlement.
Yensy Contreras, the putative similarly situated plaintiffs, and Stewart Charley Ventures, LLC; the action was discontinued while the parties finalized a settlement.
What happened
Yensy Contreras v. Stewart Charley Ventures, LLC involved Contreras’s case brought individually and for others similarly situated. The court was told that the parties were finalizing a settlement agreement.
The court discontinued the action without costs to either party and without prejudice to restoring it if an application was made within 30 days. The court directed the Clerk to close the case. Any request for the court to keep authority to enforce a settlement had to place the settlement terms on the public record and receive the court’s approval within that same period.
Judge Ronnie Abrams entered the order on July 11, 2022. The opinion did not decide the underlying claims or address the settlement’s terms.
The detailed version
- Yensy Contreras v. Stewart Charley Ventures, LLC · No. 1:22-cv-00065
- Ronnie Abrams
- July 11, 2022
Background
Yensy Contreras sued Stewart Charley Ventures, LLC, individually and on behalf of all others similarly situated. The court stated that it had been informed that the parties were in the process of finalizing a settlement agreement.
Court’s Action
The court ordered that the action be discontinued without costs to any party and without prejudice to restoring the action to the court’s docket if an application to restore it was made within 30 days. It warned that an application filed after that period could be denied solely because it was late. The Clerk of Court was directed to close the case.
The court also stated that, if the parties wanted it to retain authority to enforce a settlement agreement, the agreement’s terms had to be placed on the public record and approved by the court within the same 30-day period.
Ruling and Effect
Judge Ronnie Abrams did not decide the underlying claims or rule on the settlement’s merits. The order discontinued the action under the stated restoration conditions and closed the case.
Read the full 1-page opinion on CourtListener, the free public archive maintained by the Free Law Project.