JLM Couture, Inc. v. Gutman
- Laura Swain
- 1:20-cv-10575
- U.S. District Court · Southern District of New York
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In JLM Couture v. Gutman, Judge Cave extended the parties’ deadline to file a joint status letter and propose a discovery schedule.
JLM Couture, Inc., Hayley Paige Gutman, and Conrad Louis Clevlen; the order required the parties to file a joint status letter and propose a discovery schedule.
What happened
In JLM Couture, Inc. v. Gutman, the court had ordered the parties to file a joint status letter by January 31, 2024, after the Second Circuit issued a decision in related appeals. The parties did not meet that deadline.
The court gave the parties a one-time extension until February 6, 2024. The letter must include a proposed schedule for completing discovery on JLM Couture’s claims against the defendants. The order also noted that the defendants’ counterclaims were automatically paused during JLM Couture’s bankruptcy case, while JLM Couture’s claims were not paused.
Judge Sarah L. Cave issued the order. This was a scheduling order and did not decide the parties’ underlying claims.
The detailed version
- JLM Couture, Inc. v. Gutman · No. 1:20-cv-10575
- Laura Swain
- Feb. 2, 2024
Background
On November 20, 2023, the court directed the parties to file a joint status letter by the earlier of March 20, 2024, or 10 business days after the Second Circuit decided the pending consolidated appeals. The Second Circuit issued its decision on January 17, 2024. As a result, the parties’ deadline was January 31, 2024. They did not file the required letter.
Order
As a one-time courtesy, the court extended the deadline to February 6, 2024. The joint status letter must include a proposed schedule for completing discovery concerning JLM Couture’s claims against Hayley Paige Gutman and Conrad Louis Clevlen.
The order also referred to an earlier order that automatically paused the defendants’ counterclaims against JLM Couture under the federal bankruptcy statute while JLM Couture’s Chapter 11 bankruptcy case was pending. The earlier order did not pause JLM Couture’s claims against the defendants.
Disposition
Judge Sarah L. Cave extended the deadline for the joint status letter. The order addressed scheduling and discovery and did not resolve the underlying claims or counterclaims.
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