Labombard v. Harrell
- Subramanian
- 1:22-cv-02196
- U.S. District Court · Southern District of New York
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In Labombard v. Harrell, Judge Subramanian granted a deadline extension while keeping the September 8 status conference.
The parties were given additional time to file their joint status letter, while the scheduled September 8, 2023, conference remained unchanged.
What happened
Labombard v. Harrell is a civil-rights case in which the plaintiff alleges that former Corrections Officer Brian Harrell assaulted him during pretrial detention. The City is also a defendant, and the plaintiff seeks relief against it under a legal rule concerning municipal responsibility.
The defendants’ attorney asked to move the deadline for the parties’ joint status letter from August 25, 2023, to September 1, 2023. The request was made with the plaintiff’s consent and was described as the first request to change that deadline.
Judge Arun Subramanian granted the extension. The joint status letter became due September 1, 2023, and the September 8, 2023, conference was to proceed as planned.
The detailed version
- Labombard v. Harrell · No. 1:22-cv-02196
- Subramanian
- Aug. 24, 2023
Background
The opinion is an order concerning scheduling in a civil-rights case. The plaintiff alleges that former Corrections Officer Brian Harrell assaulted him multiple times while he was held before trial at Manhattan Detention Center from July 2018 through August 2019. The plaintiff also seeks relief against the City under Monell v. Department of Social Services, a legal theory concerning when a municipality may be responsible for constitutional violations.
The case had recently been transferred to Judge Arun Subramanian. The court had directed the parties to submit a joint filing describing the case’s factual, legal, and procedural status. The parties’ joint status letter was due August 25, 2023, and a status conference was scheduled for September 8, 2023.
Request and Ruling
The defendants’ attorney requested a one-week extension of the joint-status-letter deadline, moving it to September 1, 2023. The request stated that the plaintiff consented, that it was the first request to adjourn that deadline, and that counsel had other work obligations and anticipated that the parties might need to confer before submitting the letter.
Judge Subramanian granted the request. The order states that the status letter due August 25, 2023, would instead be due September 1, 2023. It separately states that the September 8, 2023, conference would proceed as planned.
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