Brown v. Castle Navigation, Inc.
- Ronnie Abrams
- 1:22-cv-09001
- U.S. District Court · Southern District of New York
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In Brown v. Castle Navigation, Judge Abrams discontinued the settled case without costs, preserving possible restoration within 30 days.
Lamar Brown, Castle Navigation, Inc., and the people Brown sought to represent.
What happened
Brown v. Castle Navigation, Inc. was a case brought by Lamar Brown for himself and others similarly situated against Castle Navigation, Inc. The court was told that the case had been settled.
The court discontinued the action without costs to either party. It allowed an application to restore the case to the court’s docket if filed within 30 days; later applications could be denied solely because they were late. The order also stated that any request for the court to retain authority to enforce the settlement had to meet the conditions described in the order.
Judge Ronnie Abrams directed the Clerk of Court to close the case. The order did not describe the settlement’s terms or decide the underlying claims.
The detailed version
- Brown v. Castle Navigation, Inc. · No. 1:22-cv-09001
- Ronnie Abrams
- May 1, 2023
Background
Lamar Brown brought the action on behalf of himself and all others similarly situated against Castle Navigation, Inc. The opinion states that the Court was informed that the case had been settled. It does not provide the settlement’s terms or describe 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 an application to reopen filed after that period could be denied solely because it was late.
The order further 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 period stated in the order. The Clerk of Court was directed to close the case.
Disposition
The Court discontinued the action without costs and without prejudice to a timely application to restore it. Judge Ronnie Abrams did not decide the merits of the underlying claims in this order.
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