Gulino, et al v. Board of Education, et al

Filing 12242

ORDER. The Court adopts the Proposed Findings of Fact and Conclusions of Law with respect to each member of the February 2025 Cohort and will enter the Proposed Judgments for the February 2025 Cohort. For the reasons set forth in the R&R, the Court holds there is no just reason for delay and certifies the judgments as final and appealable pursuant to Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 54(b). SO ORDERED. (Signed by Judge Kimba M. Wood on 3/12/25) (yv)

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK
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ELSA GULINO, ET AL.,

USDCSDNY
DOCUMENT
ELECTRONICALLY FILED
DOC#: - - - - - - DATEFILED: March 12, 2025

Plaintiffs,
v.
THE BOARD OF EDUCATION OF THE
CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT OF THE CITY
OF NEW YORK,

96-CV-8414 (KMW)
ORDER

Defendant.
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KIMBA M. WOOD, United States District Judge:
On May 20, 2014, this case was referred to Special Master John S. Siffert pursuant to
Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 53(a)(1)(B) and this Court’s inherent equitable powers and
authority. (ECF Nos. 435, 524.) On March 4, 2025, Special Master Siffert filed a Report and
Recommendation (“R&R”) regarding a cohort of claimants whose damages awards were reduced
to proposed judgments and submitted to the Special Master in February 2025 (the “February
2025 Cohort”). (ECF No. 12240.) The claimants who constitute the February 2025 Cohort are
listed in Exhibit 1 to the R&R. The Special Master recommended that this Court adopt the
Proposed Findings of Fact and Conclusions of Law for each claimant in the February 2025
Cohort, found in Exhibit 2 to the R&R; direct entry of the Proposed Judgments for those
claimants, also contained in Exhibit 2 to the R&R; and certify those Proposed Judgments as final
and appealable pursuant to Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 54(b). (Id.)
The parties agree that objections that have been preserved in the record do not need to be
resubmitted to the Court in connection with the R&R. The parties further agree that the Court
may adopt or reject the R&R on the basis of the arguments and objections to rulings contained in
the record.

As set forth in the Second Amended Order of Appointment and consistent with Federal
Rule of Civil Procedure 53(f), the Court reviews de novo all objections to conclusions of law and
findings of fact made or recommended by the Special Master. (ECF No. 524.) Upon de novo
review of the R&R, as well as the Proposed Findings of Fact and Conclusions of Law—and after
reviewing the previous Interim R&Rs that this Court has already adopted—the Court adopts the
Special Master’s R&R in its entirety.
Accordingly, the Court adopts the Proposed Findings of Fact and Conclusions of Law
with respect to each member of the February 2025 Cohort and will enter the Proposed Judgments
for the February 2025 Cohort. For the reasons set forth in the R&R, the Court holds there is no
just reason for delay and certifies the judgments as final and appealable pursuant to Federal Rule
of Civil Procedure 54(b).
SO ORDERED.
Dated: New York, New York
March 12, 2025

/s/ Kimba M. Wood
KIMBA M. WOOD
United States District Judge

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