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

Paguada v. Optronic Technologies, Inc.

Judge
Ronnie Abrams
Docket
1:22-cv-00921
Court
U.S. District Court · Southern District of New York
Pages
1
Civil ProcedureContract
In one sentence

In Paguada v. Optronic Technologies, Judge Abrams discontinued the settled case without costs and without prejudice to restoration within 60 days.

Who this affects

Josue Paguada and Optronic Technologies, Inc.; the case was closed after the court was informed that it had settled, subject to the stated 60-day restoration procedure.

What happened

Paguada v. Optronic Technologies, Inc. was reported to the court as settled.

The court discontinued the case without costs to either party and allowed either side to ask to restore it to the court’s docket within 60 days. The clerk was directed to close the case.

Judge Ronnie Abrams ordered that any settlement-enforcement arrangement must be placed on the public record and approved by the court within the same 60-day period if the parties wanted the court to retain jurisdiction.

The detailed version

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

Case
Paguada v. Optronic Technologies, Inc. · No. 1:22-cv-00921
Judge
Ronnie Abrams
Date
Oct. 25, 2022

Background

The court was informed that Josue Paguada’s case against Optronic Technologies, Inc. had been settled. The opinion does not provide the settlement’s terms or describe the underlying claims.

Court’s Action

Judge Ronnie Abrams 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 60 days. The order stated that any application to reopen filed after that period could be denied solely because it was late. The Clerk of Court was directed to close the case.

Settlement Enforcement

The court stated that, if the parties wanted it to retain jurisdiction 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 60-day period.

Disposition

The action was discontinued without costs and without prejudice to restoration within 60 days.

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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