Matthews v. Donohoe

Filing 113

ORDER OF PARTIAL FINAL JUDGMENT AND STAY OF REMAINING CLAIMS entered. The 2007 retaliation claims and the 2012 discrimination and retaliation claims are dismissed with prejudice. The 2007 discrimination claim is stayed and administratively closed pending resolution of the parallel pending EEOC class action. Case terminated on 5/11/17.(Signed by Chief Judge Lee H Rosenthal) Parties notified.(leddins, 4) Modified on 5/11/2017 (leddins, 4).

United States District Court
Southern District of Texas

ENTERED
IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
FOR THE SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF TEXAS
HOUSTON DIVISION
JANICE VINSON MATTHEWS,
Plaintiff,
VS.

MEGAN J. BRENNAN, Postmaster
General, et al.,
Defendants.

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May 11, 2017
David J. Bradley, Clerk

CIVIL ACTION NO. H-14-1825

ORDER OF PARTIAL FINAL JUDGMENT AND STAY OF REMAINING CLAIMS
For the reasons explained in the accompanying Memorandum and Opinion, the Postal
Service’s motion for partial summary judgment, Docket Entry No. 98, is granted as to Janice Vinson
Matthews’s 2007 retaliation claims and 2012 discrimination and retaliation claims. Under Federal
Rule of Civil Procedure 54(b), the court finds and concludes that there is no just cause for delay in
entering final judgment in the government’s favor. The 2007 retaliation claims and the 2012
discrimination and retaliation claims are dismissed with prejudice. The 2007 discrimination claim
is stayed and administratively closed pending resolution of the parallel pending EEOC class action.
SIGNED on May 11, 2017, at Houston, Texas.
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Lee H. Rosenthal
Chief United States District Judge