Muzumala v. Unknown Federal Agents
- Laura Swain
- 1:22-cv-07851
- U.S. District Court · Southern District of New York
- 2
In Muzumala v. Unknown Federal Agents, Judge Swain granted Muzumala 30 more days to seek reconsideration and denied an appeal fee waiver.
Joshua Muzumala, who received additional time to seek reconsideration but was denied permission to appeal without paying filing fees.
What happened
In Muzumala v. Unknown Federal Agents, Joshua Muzumala, representing himself, asked for more time to file a motion asking the court to reconsider its earlier dismissal of his complaint.
The court granted him a 30-day extension to file that motion. It did not decide the reconsideration motion in this order.
Judge Laura Taylor Swain also ruled that any appeal from this order would not be taken in good faith and denied permission to appeal without paying filing fees.
The detailed version
- Muzumala v. Unknown Federal Agents · No. 1:22-cv-07851
- Laura Swain
- Sept. 7, 2023
Background
Joshua Muzumala brought the action without a lawyer. The court had dismissed his complaint in an order dated August 28, 2023. On September 5, 2023, the court received Muzumala's letter requesting more time to file a motion for reconsideration, which is a request asking the court to revisit an earlier ruling.
Ruling
The court granted Muzumala a 30-day extension to file the motion for reconsideration. This order did not rule on whether reconsideration should be granted.
The court also certified under 28 U.S.C. § 1915(a)(3) that an appeal from this order would not be taken in good faith. It therefore denied permission to appeal without paying the filing fees. Judge Laura Taylor Swain signed the order.
Read the full 2-page opinion on CourtListener, the free public archive maintained by the Free Law Project.