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S.D.N.Y.Substantive rulingFiled Sept. 13, 2022

Fredrick v. Doe

Judge
Analisa Torres
Docket
1:20-cv-05738
Court
U.S. District Court · Southern District of New York
Pages
1
Summary JudgmentCivil ProcedurePro Se
In one sentence

In Nigel Fredricks v. Alexis Parrilla, Judge Torres adopted the report, granted defendants’ summary-judgment motion, denied Fredricks’s cross-motion, and closed the case.

Who this affects

Nigel Fredricks, who represented himself, and defendants Alexis Parrilla, Duayne John, John Shaheen, Travis Richards, Andrew Henry, and Omar Smith. The case was closed after the defendants won summary judgment and Fredricks’s cross-motion was denied.

What happened

In Nigel Fredricks v. Alexis Parrilla, the court considered a report and recommendation from Magistrate Judge James L. Cott. No party objected to that report.

Judge Analisa Torres reviewed the report for clear error and found none. She adopted it in full.

Judge Torres granted the defendants’ motion for summary judgment and denied Nigel Fredricks’s cross-motion for summary judgment. The court directed the Clerk to close the case and mail the order to Fredricks, who was representing himself.

The detailed version

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

Case
Fredrick v. Doe · No. 1:20-cv-05738
Judge
Analisa Torres
Date
Sept. 13, 2022

Background

The opinion states that Magistrate Judge James L. Cott issued a report and recommendation. The opinion does not describe the underlying claims or the report’s reasoning. No party filed objections.

Court’s analysis

Judge Analisa Torres reviewed the report for clear error, meaning an obvious mistake, and found none. The court therefore adopted the report and recommendation in its entirety.

Ruling

The court granted the defendants’ motion for summary judgment and denied Nigel Fredricks’s cross-motion for summary judgment. The Clerk of Court was directed to terminate the two motions, mail a copy of the order to Fredricks, who was proceeding without a lawyer, and close the case.

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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