| South Korea
UN Mission Case For Shorting Driver
Waiting at Mistress' Home Reassigned
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Patreon
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SDNY COURTHOUSE,
Sept 22 – Hyanhuy Nam
worked as a chauffeur for
South Korea's Mission to the
UN, driving a Minister back
and forth to 14 Homestead Road
in Tenafly, New Jersey - and
to run the Ministers' family
members' "personal errands
including providing free
transportation services to his
family
members."
He was not paid
overtime or "spread of hours"
and so he sued.
The case was
assigned to U.S. District
Court for the Southern
District of New York Judge
Alison J. Nathan, before she
was nominated for the Second
Circuit Court of Appeals.
Inner City Press is covering
the South Korean UN Mission
case, as well as other cases
before Judge Nathan including
US v. Ghislaine
Maxwell.
The Nam complaint
alleges that his job for the
Minister included "driving him
and his female companions to a
discrete rondeau at her
apartment" at 867 Metropolitan
Avenue, Brooklyn NY
11211."
There are other allegations in
the complaint, against other
South Korean diplomats, which
Inner City Press will continue
to cover.
The
defendants have sought to stay
discovery, but on December 27
Judge Nathan denied the
request, specifying that if
the South Korean Mission or
officials "believe Plaintiff's
discovery requests exceed the
scope of Rule 26 or the
parties' protective order
entered November 5, 20221,
then Defendants may, after
meeting and conferring with
Plaintiff, file an
objection."
A focus
seems to be erasing the names
of some defendants from the
caption. The parties have
agreed to take out the names
of Hyun Cho, Jinho Jo and
Daeyoung Chung." But the
Mission to the UN is still
being sued.
On March 15, 2022
the Mission through counsel
wrote in to say it is invoking
immunity, not waived by
voluntary appearance at the
noticed Rule 30b(6)
deposition.
On April 12 after
Judge Nathan was confirmed to
the Second Circuit, the case
was reassigned to Judge Ronnie
Abrams: "ORDER: This case was
recently reassigned to me from
Judge Nathan. By Orders dated
October 7, 2021 and January
21, 2022, Judge Nathan
scheduled a post-fact
discovery conference for April
15, 2022. See Dkts. 30, 61. On
February 24, 2022, Judge
Nathan granted the parties'
request to extend the
discovery deadlines, with all
fact discovery to be completed
by May 12, 2022, and all
expert discovery to be
completed by June 28, 2022.
See Dkt. 68. The Court hereby
adjourns the post-fact
discovery conference to May
20, 2022 at 10:30 a.m... No
later than one week in advance
of the conference, the parties
are to submit a joint letter
updating the Court on the
status of the case, including
but not limited to whether
either party intends to file a
dispositive motion and what
efforts the parties have made
to settle the action. SO
ORDERED."
In September 2022
the case was re-assigned for
the second time: "NOTICE OF
CASE REASSIGNMENT to Judge
Jennifer L. Rochon. Judge
Ronnie Abrams is no longer
assigned to the case."
The case is now
Nam v. Permanent Mission of
the Republic of Korea to the
United Nations, 21-cv-6165
(Rochon)
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