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S.D.N.Y.Procedural orderFiled Oct. 25, 2022

Muntaz v. Fairygodboss Inc.

Judge
Ronnie Abrams
Docket
1:21-cv-09386
Court
U.S. District Court · Southern District of New York
Pages
1
Civil ProcedureContract
In one sentence

In Muntaz v. Fairygodboss Inc., Judge Abrams discontinued the settled case without costs and without prejudice to timely restoration.

Who this affects

Riaasa Muntaz and defendants Fairygodboss, Inc., Romy Newman, Maura Bradley, and Danna Hendrickson. The action was closed after the court was informed that it had settled, with a 30-day period for seeking restoration or reopening under the order’s terms.

What happened

In Muntaz v. Fairygodboss Inc., the court was informed that the case had been settled. The opinion does not provide the settlement’s terms.

The court discontinued the case without costs to any party and without prejudice to restoring it to the court’s docket if a request was made within 30 days. It also directed the Clerk of Court to close the case.

Judge Ronnie Abrams ordered that any request to reopen filed after 30 days could be denied solely because it was late. The parties could ask the court to retain authority to enforce the settlement only if they placed its terms on the public record and obtained the court’s approval within that same 30-day period.

The detailed version

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

Case
Muntaz v. Fairygodboss Inc. · No. 1:21-cv-09386
Judge
Ronnie Abrams
Date
Oct. 25, 2022

Background

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

Order

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

The court also stated that, if the parties wanted the court to retain jurisdiction—that is, 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 settlement-related terms. The opinion did not decide the underlying claims.

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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