Lastres v. City Of New York
- Ronnie Abrams
- 1:21-cv-10742
- U.S. District Court · Southern District of New York
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In Lastres v. City Of New York, Judge Abrams discontinued the settled case without costs, allowing restoration within 30 days.
Daniel Lastres and the named defendants; the action was closed, subject to a possible application to restore it within 30 days.
What happened
Lastres v. City Of New York involved Daniel Lastres and the City of New York, police officers, and other named defendants. The court was informed that the case had settled.
The court discontinued the action without costs to any party. The order allowed a party to ask to restore the case to the court’s docket within 30 days, and directed the Clerk of Court to close the case.
Judge Ronnie Abrams entered the order on June 12, 2023. The order also stated that any settlement-enforcement request would require the settlement terms to be placed on the public record and approved by the court within the same 30-day period.
The detailed version
- Lastres v. City Of New York · No. 1:21-cv-10742
- Ronnie Abrams
- June 12, 2023
Background
The opinion states that the case had been reported as settled. The listed defendants were the City of New York, Police Officer Nikolas Liandrakis, Captain Christopher Treubig, and New York Police Department officers identified as John and Jane Doe 1–10, sued individually and in their official capacities.
Court’s Action
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 directed that any application to reopen the action be filed within 30 days of the order and stated that a later application could be denied solely because it was late.
The court further stated that, if the parties wanted it to retain authority to enforce a 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 without costs and directed the Clerk of Court to close the case. The opinion does not address the merits of the underlying claims or disclose the settlement’s terms.
Read the full 1-page opinion on CourtListener, the free public archive maintained by the Free Law Project.