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S.D.N.Y.Procedural orderFiled Oct. 21, 2022

Mazzocchi v. Windsor Owners Corp.

Judge
Ronnie Abrams
Docket
1:11-cv-07913
Court
U.S. District Court · Southern District of New York
Pages
1
Civil ProcedureContract
In one sentence

In Mazzocchi v. Windsor Owners Corp., Judge Abrams discontinued the settled case without costs and without prejudice to timely restoration.

Who this affects

The plaintiff and defendants in Mazzocchi v. Windsor Owners Corp.; the case was closed after the reported settlement, subject to the court’s 30-day restoration and settlement-enforcement conditions.

What happened

In Mazzocchi v. Windsor Owners Corp., the court was informed that the parties had settled the case.

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 was made within 30 days. The Clerk of Court was directed to close the case.

Judge Ronnie Abrams also stated that any request for the court to retain authority to enforce the settlement had to be placed on the public record and approved by the court within the same 30-day period.

The detailed version

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

Case
Mazzocchi v. Windsor Owners Corp. · No. 1:11-cv-07913
Judge
Ronnie Abrams
Date
Oct. 21, 2022

Background

The court stated that it had been informed that the case had settled. The opinion does not describe the parties’ settlement terms or the underlying claims.

Order

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 stated that any application to reopen filed after that period could be denied solely because it was late.

The court further stated that, if the parties wanted the court to retain authority to enforce the 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 Clerk of Court was directed to close the case.

Disposition

Judge Ronnie Abrams discontinued the action under the stated conditions. The order did not decide the merits of the underlying dispute.

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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