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S.D.N.Y.Procedural orderFiled Oct. 24, 2023

Jones v. Rock City Kicks, LLC

Judge
Ronnie Abrams
Docket
1:23-cv-04334
Court
U.S. District Court · Southern District of New York
Pages
1
Civil ProcedureContract
In one sentence

In Jones v. Rock City Kicks, Judge Abrams discontinued the settled case without costs and without prejudice to restoration within 30 days.

Who this affects

Jones and Rock City Kicks, LLC; the case was closed after the court was informed that it had settled, subject to the stated 30-day restoration and settlement-enforcement conditions.

What happened

Jones v. Rock City Kicks, LLC was reported to have settled. The opinion does not describe the parties’ claims or the settlement terms.

The court discontinued the case without costs to either party and without prejudice to restoring it if an application was filed within 30 days. The Clerk of Court was directed to close the case.

Judge Ronnie Abrams also stated that any settlement-enforcement jurisdiction would require the agreement’s terms to be placed on the public record and approved by the court within the same 30-day period.

The detailed version

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

Case
Jones v. Rock City Kicks, LLC · No. 1:23-cv-04334
Judge
Ronnie Abrams
Date
Oct. 24, 2023

Background

The court was informed that the case had been settled. The order does not identify the claims, explain the settlement, or provide its terms.

Order

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 stated that an application to reopen filed after that period might be denied solely because it was late. The Clerk of Court was directed to close the case.

The court further stated that, if the parties wanted it to retain jurisdiction to enforce the 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.

Disposition

The court closed the settled action under the stated 30-day restoration conditions. It did not decide the underlying claims.

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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