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S.D.N.Y.Procedural orderFiled Oct. 19, 2023

Sackey v. Abdi

Judge
Rearden
Docket
1:23-cv-05119
Court
U.S. District Court · Southern District of New York
Pages
1
Civil Procedure
In one sentence

In Sackey v. Abdi, Judge Rearden granted a request to postpone the initial pretrial conference.

Who this affects

The plaintiff, the defendants, and their attorneys are affected because the initial pretrial conference was postponed and the deadline for submitting the required joint letter and proposed case-management plan was reiterated.

What happened

In Sackey v. Abdi, the plaintiff’s lawyers asked to postpone the initial pretrial conference scheduled for October 23, 2023. The request was made with the defendants’ lawyers’ consent because of a scheduling conflict.

The court granted the request and moved the conference to October 31, 2023, at 12:15 p.m. The parties were reminded to submit their joint letter and proposed case-management plan at least one week before the conference.

Judge Jennifer H. Rearden issued the order. The text does not address the parties’ underlying claims or defenses.

The detailed version

For law students, journalists, and other readers who want the full reasoning

Case
Sackey v. Abdi · No. 1:23-cv-05119
Judge
Rearden
Date
Oct. 19, 2023

Request

Plaintiff Kelvin Sackey’s attorneys, writing with the consent of defense counsel, asked the court to adjourn—that is, postpone—the initial pretrial conference set for October 23, 2023, at 11:30 a.m. They cited a scheduling conflict and stated that this was the first request to adjourn the conference.

Ruling

The court stated: “Application GRANTED.” The initial pretrial conference was adjourned to October 31, 2023, at 12:15 p.m. The parties were reminded to submit the joint letter and proposed case-management plan described in ECF No. 7 no later than one week before the conference.

Scope of the Order

This order concerns only scheduling and pretrial submissions. The supplied text does not decide the underlying claims or defenses.

The authoritative version

Read the full 1-page opinion on CourtListener, the free public archive maintained by the Free Law Project.

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