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S.D.N.Y.Substantive rulingFiled Jan. 4, 2023

Morales v. Department of Corrections

Judge
Valerie Caproni
Docket
1:20-cv-10126
Court
U.S. District Court · Southern District of New York
Pages
1
Summary JudgmentCivil Procedure
In one sentence

In Morales v. Brann, Judge Caproni granted defendants’ summary-judgment motion in full and closed the case after no objections.

Who this affects

Jonathan Morales and defendants Cynthia Brann, Patsy Yang, and Margaret Egan; the defendants obtained summary judgment in full, and the case was closed.

What happened

In Jonathan Morales v. Cynthia Brann, Patsy Yang, and Margaret Egan, the court adopted the amended recommendation from a magistrate judge in full. The opinion does not state the underlying claims or explain the recommendation’s reasoning.

The defendants had asked for summary judgment, a decision without a trial. No party filed objections to the amended recommendation, which had warned the parties about the consequences of not objecting.

The court granted the defendants’ motion for summary judgment in full and closed the case. The judgment also states that the failure to object prevents appellate review of the decision. Judge Valerie Caproni is identified in the supplied case information.

The detailed version

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Case
Morales v. Department of Corrections · No. 1:20-cv-10126
Judge
Valerie Caproni
Date
Jan. 4, 2023

Ruling

The judgment states that, for the reasons given in the Court’s January 4, 2023 Order, the amended report and recommendation was adopted in full. It further states that the defendants’ motion for summary judgment was granted in full.

Summary judgment is a ruling that resolves a case without a trial when the court determines that the moving party is entitled to judgment under the applicable legal standards. This judgment does not describe the claims, evidence, or reasoning addressed in the underlying Order or amended report and recommendation.

Objections and Case Status

The judgment states that the parties received adequate warning that failing to object to the amended report and recommendation could affect appellate review. Because no objections were filed, the court held that appellate review of the decision was precluded. The case was closed.

The supplied opinion text is a judgment signed by the clerk and deputy clerk; it refers to the Court’s Order but does not identify the judge in the text itself. The judge named above comes from the supplied case information.

The authoritative version

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