Abraham v. Leigh et al

Filing 533

ORDER: The Court is in receipt of Plaintiff's documents, filed on August 4, 2020, styled on ECF as "Notice of Filing Supplement to Plaintiff's Motions" (Dkt. #526),"Brief" (Dkt. #527), and "Notice of Plaintiff 9;s Supplemental Exhibits" (Dkt. #529-#532). As an initial matter, the Court notes that most of these documents are misfiled. (E.g., Dkt. #527 (document filed as a "Brief" is not a brief at all, but is in fact a collection of PDFs of s everal documents styled as exhibits, two of which are labelled Exhibit A and one labelled Exhibit B)). Additionally, Plaintiff has already filed most, if not all, of these "exhibits" along with her earlier motions. They are therefore unne cessary to supplement Plaintiff's pending motions. Furthermore, the Court is concerned that Plaintiff is attempting to file motions by accretion, with voluminous, duplicative, supplemental filings, thereby abusing ECF and wasting judicial resour ces. For these reasons, the Court will accept Plaintiff's latest filings (Dkt. #526532), but nothing more until Plaintiff's pending motions are resolved. The Court reminds Plaintiff of the Order issued just two days ago, on August 3, 2020 , imploring her to think about her filings and to refrain from wasting the time and resources of the Court and parties. If Plaintiff is unwilling or unable to comply with Court orders, the Court is willing for the first time to suspend Plaintiff&# 039;s ECF filing privileges. Finally, because many of the documents Plaintiff filed on August 4, 2020, disclose irrelevant, salacious, or personally sensitive material, the Court will seal Docket Nos. 527-532, to be viewable by the Court and parties only. SO ORDERED. (Signed by Judge Katherine Polk Failla on 8/5/2020) (rro)

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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK
ROBYN ABRAHAM,
Plaintiff,
-v.-

17 Civ. 5429 (KPF)
ORDER

ABBY LEIGH, et al.,
Defendants.
KATHERINE POLK FAILLA, District Judge:

The Court is in receipt of Plaintiff’s documents, filed on August 4, 2020,
styled on ECF as “Notice of Filing Supplement to Plaintiff's Motions” (Dkt.
#526), “Brief” (Dkt. #527), and “Notice of Plaintiff's Supplemental Exhibits”
(Dkt. #529–#532). As an initial matter, the Court notes that most of these
documents are misfiled. (E.g., Dkt. #527 (document filed as a “Brief” is not a
brief at all, but is in fact a collection of PDFs of several documents styled as
exhibits, two of which are labelled Exhibit A and one labelled Exhibit B)).
Additionally, Plaintiff has already filed most, if not all, of these “exhibits” along
with her earlier motions. They are therefore unnecessary to supplement
Plaintiff’s pending motions. Furthermore, the Court is concerned that Plaintiff
is attempting to file motions by accretion, with voluminous, duplicative,
supplemental filings, thereby abusing ECF and wasting judicial resources. For
these reasons, the Court will accept Plaintiff’s latest filings (Dkt. #526–532),
but nothing more until Plaintiff’s pending motions are resolved. The Court
reminds Plaintiff of the Order issued just two days ago, on August 3, 2020,
imploring her to think about her filings and to refrain from wasting the time

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and resources of the Court and parties. If Plaintiff is unwilling or unable to
comply with Court orders, the Court is willing — for the first time — to
suspend Plaintiff’s ECF filing privileges. Finally, because many of the
documents Plaintiff filed on August 4, 2020, disclose irrelevant, salacious, or
personally sensitive material, the Court will seal Docket Nos. 527–532, to be
viewable by the Court and parties only.
SO ORDERED.
Dated:

August 5, 2020
New York, New York

__________________________________
KATHERINE POLK FAILLA
United States District Judge

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