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S.D.N.Y.Procedural orderFiled June 21, 2023

Trustees for The Mason Tenders District Council Welfare Fund v. Interiors

Full caption

Trustees for The Mason Tenders District Council Welfare Fund, Pension Fund, Annuity Fund, and Training Program Fund v. Ideal Interiors, Inc.

Judge
Katherine Failla
Docket
1:23-cv-05110
Court
U.S. District Court · Southern District of New York
Pages
2
ArbitrationCivil ProcedureSummary Judgment
In one sentence

In Trustees for the Mason Tenders District Council Welfare Fund v. Ideal Interiors, Judge Failla ordered petitioners to seek arbitration-award confirmation through summary judgment.

Who this affects

The petitioners and Ideal Interiors, Inc.; the order required the petitioners to file a summary-judgment motion and set deadlines for Ideal Interiors’ possible opposition and the petitioners’ reply.

What happened

In Trustees for the Mason Tenders District Council Welfare Fund, Pension Fund, Annuity Fund and Training Program Fund v. Ideal Interiors, Inc., the petitioners asked the court to confirm an arbitration award. The petition was filed on June 16, 2023.

The court ordered the petitioners to make that request through a motion for summary judgment, which asks the court to decide a matter without a trial when the required facts are not genuinely disputed. The motion must follow federal Rule 56 and the court’s local Rule 56.1.

Judge Katherine Polk Failla set August 2, 2023, for the motion; August 30 for Ideal Interiors’ opposition, if any; and September 13 for the petitioners’ reply, if any. This order set the briefing schedule and did not itself decide whether to confirm the arbitration award.

The detailed version

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Case
Trustees for The Mason Tenders District Council Welfare Fund v. Interiors · No. 1:23-cv-05110
Judge
Katherine Failla
Date
June 21, 2023

Background

The petitioners—Trustees for the Mason Tenders District Council Welfare Fund, Pension Fund, Annuity Fund and Training Program Fund, Anna Gutsin in her fiduciary capacity as Director, and Michael Prohaka as Business Manager of the Mason Tenders District Council of Greater New York—filed a petition seeking confirmation of an arbitration award on June 16, 2023.

Court’s Order

The court explained that proceedings to confirm an arbitration award are treated like a motion for summary judgment. Summary judgment is a procedure for requesting a decision without a trial under Rule 56 of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure. The court ordered the petitioners to move for confirmation using that procedure and to comply with Rule 56 and Local Rule 56.1 of the Southern District of New York.

The court set the following schedule:

- Petitioners’ motion: August 2, 2023 - Ideal Interiors’ opposition, if any: August 30, 2023 - Petitioners’ reply, if any: September 13, 2023

The order set the schedule for briefing. It did not decide whether the arbitration award should be confirmed.

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