Benjamin, et al., v. Horn, et al.,

Filing 688

ORDER granting 687 Letter Motion for Extension of Time to File. The extension request is approved. SO ORDERED. (Signed by Judge Loretta A. Preska on 9/18/2020) (va)

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Prisoners' Rights Project
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John K. Carroll
President

September 17, 2020

Mary Lynne Werlwas
Director
Prisoners' Rights Project

VIA ECF
The Honorable Loretta A. Preska
United States District Court
Southern District of New York
500 Pearl Street
New York, New York 10007
Re:

Janet E. Sabel
Attorney-in-Chief
Chief Executive Officer

Benjamin v. Brann, 75-CV-3073 (LAP)
Joint motion to adjourn OCC progress report submission date

Your Honor:
I write on behalf of all parties, and with the consent of the Office of Compliance Consultants
(“OCC”), to request a two-week extension of time for the parties to submit comments to OCC
concerning its Draft Report on Enviromental Conditions for the May – August 2020 reporting
period, and a corresponding two-week extension of time for OCC to submit the finalized progress
report to this Court. This is the first request for an extension related to the progress report for this
reporting period.
OCC’s progress report is currently due to the Court on September 30, 2020. (See Order dated
September 22, 2015, ECF No. 628). OCC requires at least five working days in order to incorporate
and respond to the parties’ comments to the draft report, and it has therefore requested that the
parties’ comments be submitted to it by September 22, 2020. Unfortunately, due to a combination of
previously planned vacations and competing case commitments, plaintiffs require a brief
adjournment of the submission dates. As stated, defendants have graciously joined this application,
to which OCC consents. If the Court were to grant the extension, the parties’ comments to OCC
would be due on October 6, 2020, and OCC’s finalized progress report to the Court would be due
October 14, 2020. We respectfully request that the Court endorse this brief extension.
We thank the Court for its time and consideration.
Respectfully submitted,
/s/
Robert M. Quackenbush
cc:

all counsel of record
(via ECF)

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Nicole N. Austin-Best, OCC
(via email)

The extension request is approved.
SO ORDERED.
Dated: September 18, 2020

_____________________________
LORETTA A. PRESKA, U.S.D.J.

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