Jimenez v. The Great Oregon Wine Company
- Ronnie Abrams
- 1:22-cv-05387
- U.S. District Court · Southern District of New York
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In Jimenez v. The Great Oregon Wine Company, Judge Abrams discontinued the settled-in-principle case without costs, allowing restoration within 30 days.
Vanessa Jimenez, The Great Oregon Wine Company, and the putative similarly situated group identified in the caption; the action was closed subject to a possible application to restore it within 30 days.
What happened
Vanessa Jimenez brought this action individually and on behalf of others similarly situated against The Great Oregon Wine Company. The court was told that the parties had settled in principle.
The court did not decide the underlying claims or state that a final settlement had been approved. Instead, it discontinued the action without costs to any party.
Judge Ronnie Abrams allowed the action to be restored to the court’s docket if an application was made within 30 days and directed the Clerk of Court to close the case. The order also stated that any request for the court to retain authority to enforce a settlement had to be placed on the public record and approved by the court within that period.
The detailed version
- Jimenez v. The Great Oregon Wine Company · No. 1:22-cv-05387
- Ronnie Abrams
- Sept. 21, 2022
Background
Vanessa Jimenez sued The Great Oregon Wine Company individually and on behalf of all others similarly situated. The opinion does not describe the claims or the proposed settlement’s terms. It states only that the court was informed that the case had been settled in principle.
Court’s Action
The court ordered that the action be discontinued without costs to any party and without prejudice to restoring it to the court’s docket if an application to restore the action was made within 30 days. The order warned that an application filed later might be denied solely because it was untimely. The Clerk of Court was directed to close the case.
The order further stated that, if the parties wanted the court 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. The opinion does not say that the court approved a final settlement or resolved the underlying claims.
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