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S.D.N.Y.Procedural orderFiled May 17, 2024

Reyes v. Jamison

Judge
Vernon Broderick
Docket
1:23-cv-05241
Court
U.S. District Court · Southern District of New York
Pages
2
Civil Procedure
In one sentence

In Reyes v. Jamison, Judge Cave ordered the respondent to try to locate Reyes and mail him a prior report and recommendation.

Who this affects

Miguel Reyes and J.L. Jamison; the order required Jamison to try to locate Reyes and deliver the report and recommendation.

What happened

In Reyes v. Jamison, the court learned that a report and recommendation mailed to Miguel Reyes had been returned as undeliverable.

The court noted that the Bureau of Prisons website indicated Reyes had been released from incarceration in December 2023. Reyes had not provided the court with an updated address.

Judge Sarah L. Cave ordered J.L. Jamison to check for Reyes’s last known or forwarding address, mail the report and recommendation if an address was available, and notify the court by May 31, 2024, about those efforts.

The detailed version

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

Case
Reyes v. Jamison · No. 1:23-cv-05241
Judge
Vernon Broderick
Date
May 17, 2024

Background

On May 16, 2024, the court was notified that the copy of a March 29, 2024 report and recommendation mailed to Petitioner Miguel Reyes had been returned as undeliverable. The opinion states that the Bureau of Prisons’ website indicated Reyes had been released from incarceration in December 2023. It also states that Reyes had not provided the court with an updated address, despite an obligation to do so.

Order

The court ordered Respondent J.L. Jamison to determine whether it had Reyes’s last known address or a forwarding address. If it had such an address, Jamison was ordered to mail Reyes a copy of the report and recommendation. The court also ordered Jamison to notify the court by May 31, 2024, of its efforts to locate and serve Reyes with the report and recommendation.

Effect of the Order

This order addresses delivery of the report and recommendation and the parties’ communications with the court. It does not state a ruling on the underlying claims. The order was signed by Sarah L. Cave, United States Magistrate Judge.

The authoritative version

Read the full 2-page opinion on CourtListener, the free public archive maintained by the Free Law Project.

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