Williams v. Federal Emergency Management Agency

Filing 14

ORDER & REASONS granting 11 Motion for Summary Judgment and/or Motion to Dismiss for Lack of Jurisdiction. Party Federal Emergency Management Agency dismissed. A motion for reconsideration of this Order, if any, must be filed within twenty-eight days of the date this Order is entered by the Clerk of Court, as more fully set forth in document. Signed by Judge Kurt D. Engelhardt on 3/7/2014. (mmm)

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
EASTERN DISTRICT OF LOUISIANA
CHARMAINE WILLIAMS

CIVIL ACTION

VERSUS

NO. 13-2475

FEDERAL EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT
AGENCY

SECTION "N" (4)

ORDER AND REASONS
Local Rule 7.5 of the Eastern District of Louisiana requires that a memorandum in
opposition to a motion be filed eight days prior to the noticed submission date. No memorandum
in opposition to the following motion, noticed for submission on March 5, 2014, was filed:

“Motion to Dismiss, or Alternatively, for Summary
Judgment (Rec. Doc. 11), filed by Jeh Johnson, Secretary
for the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (“DHS”)
and W. Craig Fugate, Administrator of the Federal
Emergency Management Agency (collectively “FEMA”).

Further, the Court finds that the motion has merit. Accordingly;
IT IS ORDERED that the Motion to Dismiss, or Alternatively, for Summary Judgment
filed by the defendant (Rec. Doc. 11), is hereby GRANTED, and the plaintiff’s claims are
hereby DISMISSED WITH PREJUDICE.
A motion for reconsideration of this Order, if any, must be filed within twenty-eight days
of the date this Order is entered by the Clerk of Court. The motion must be accompanied by
opposition memorandum to the original motion. Because a motion for reconsideration would not

have been necessary had a timely opposition memorandum been filed, the costs incurred in
connection with the motion, including attorneys' fees, will be assessed against the party moving
for reconsideration. See FED. R. CIV. P. 16, 83. A statement of costs conforming to Local Rule
54.3 shall be submitted by all parties desiring to be awarded costs and attorneys’ fees no later
than eight days prior to the hearing on the motion for reconsideration.
New Orleans, Louisiana, this 7th day of March, 2014.

____________________________________
KURT D. ENGELHARDT
UNITED STATES DISTRICT JUDGE

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