| Bronx Center Sued For No
Sign Language But Even Pre Settlement
Scheduling Secret
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Patreon
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SDNY COURTHOUSE,
July 21 – The Plaza
Rehabilitation & Nursing
Center at 100 West Kingbridge
Road in The Bronx has been
sued for failure to provide
American Sign Language
interpreters.
On July 21, U.S.
District Court for the
Southern District of New York
Magistrate Judge Ona T. Wang
held a proceeding. Inner City
Press covered it.
Despite
high minded public interest
language in the Complaint,
when Judge Wang proposed the
next step being a
"pre-settlement conference"
scheduling conference from
which the public and press
would be excluded, plaintiff's
counsel said that would be
fine.
To be fair, while
Magistrate Judge Wang urge the
parties to consent to
assigning her the case for
"all purposes," she noted that
she is paid the same
regardless.
This dubiously
confidential pre-settlement
conference scheduling
conference was set for
Thursday, October 1, at 3:30
pm.
It's one thing
for actual settlement
conference before Magistrate
Judges to be closed to the
public and press. But
"pre-settlement conference
scheduling conferences"?
This case is
Nieves v. The Plaza
Rehabilitation & Nursing
Center et al., 20-cv-1191
(Gardephe / Wang)
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