Brown v. New York City Department of Education et al

Filing 141

ORDER granting 140 Letter Motion for Extension of Time to File. Application GRANTED. Defendant's motion for summary judgment is due December 6, 2024. Plaintiff's opposition, if any, is due January 31, 2025. Defendant's reply, if any, is due February 14, 2024. There will be no further extensions to the briefing schedule. SO ORDERED. (Signed by Magistrate Judge Ona T. Wang on 11/22/2024) (sgz)

MEMO ENDORSED.

THE CITY OF NEW YORK

LAW DEPARTMENT

MURIEL GOODE-TRUFANT
Acting Corporation Counsel

100 CHURCH STREET
NEW YORK, NY 10007

ZACHARY T. ELLIS
Assistant Corporation Counsel
Labor and Employment Law Division
[phone]
[e-mail]

November 21, 2024
Via CM/ECF
Honorable Ona T. Wang
United States Magistrate Judge
Southern District of New York
500 Pearl Street, Courtroom 20D
New York, New York 10007
Re:

Brown v. New York City Department of Education
Civil Action No. 1:20-CV-02424-VEC-OTW
Law Dep’t File No. 2020-038133

Dear Judge Wang:
I am an Assistant Corporation Counsel in the Office of Muriel Goode-Trufant, Acting
Corporation Counsel of the City of New York, representing Defendant, the New York City
Department of Education (“DOE”), in the above-referenced action. In accord with Your Honor’s
Individual Rules of Practice, I write to respectfully request a two-week extension of time for the
DOE to file its Motion for Summary Judgment, from November 22, 2024, to December 6, 20244.
This is the DOE’s second request for an extension of this deadline. Pro-Se Plaintiff Mary Hurd
Brown (“Plaintiff”) consents to the requested extension. In addition, Plaintiff requests that her
own deadline to respond to the DOE’s motion for summary judgment be extended until January
31, 2025. The DOE consents to Plaintiff’s extension request.
The extension of time is necessary because of workload issues, including a very high
volume of labor- and employment-related litigation in both federal and state court. The requested
extension is also necessary to provide my client with time to review the filing, which review will
be complicated by the fact that Thanksgiving is next week.
I thank the Court for its consideration of this request.

Respectfully submitted,
/s/
Zachary T. Ellis
Assistant Corporation Counsel
cc:

Pro-Se Plaintiff Mary Hurd Brown (by CM/ECF)

Application GRANTED.
Defendant's motion for summary judgment is due December 6, 2024. Plaintiff's opposition,
if any, is due January 31, 2025. Defendant's reply, if any, is due February 14, 2024.
There will be no further extensions to the briefing schedule.

SO ORDERED.

_____________
Ona T. Wang
U.S.M.J. 11/22/2024

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