Matos v. City of New York
- Ronnie Abrams
- 1:19-cv-07691
- U.S. District Court · Southern District of New York
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In Matos v. City of New York, Judge Abrams discontinued the settled case without costs, allowing restoration within 30 days.
Mariela Matos and the defendants, including the City of New York, whose settled action was discontinued and closed subject to the order’s 30-day restoration conditions.
What happened
In Matos v. City of New York, the court was told that the parties had settled the case. The court discontinued the action without costs to any party and without prejudice to restoring it to the court’s docket within 30 days.
The order states that any request to reopen filed after 30 days may be denied solely because it was late. If the parties wanted the court to keep authority to enforce their settlement, they had to place the settlement terms on the public record and obtain the court’s approval within the same 30-day period.
The court directed the Clerk of Court to close the case. Judge Ronnie Abrams signed the order on April 10, 2023.
The detailed version
- Matos v. City of New York · No. 1:19-cv-07691
- Ronnie Abrams
- Apr. 10, 2023
Background
The court stated that it had been informed that the case had settled. The opinion does not describe the underlying claims or the settlement’s terms.
Ruling
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 also stated that an application to reopen filed after that period could be denied solely because it was filed late.
The court further explained that, if the parties wanted it to retain jurisdiction—legal authority—to enforce the settlement agreement, the settlement 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.
Read the full 1-page opinion on CourtListener, the free public archive maintained by the Free Law Project.