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Mustafa v. U.S. Embassy in Cairo

Southern District of New YorkMary Kay VyskocilDecided November 16, 2021No. 1:21-cv-09468

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Agency Not recorded Read by a model
Form or filing None named Read by a model
What the suit asked for Not recorded Read by a model
Kind of order A procedural order Read by a model
The Court directs Plaintiff to submit an IFP application or pay the $402.00 in filing fees within 30 days from the date of this order.
Motion decided None Read by a model
Whose motion The court on its own Read by a model
The Court directs Plaintiff to submit an IFP application or pay the $402.00 in filing fees within 30 days from the date of this order.
Disposition Procedural order A scheduling, briefing, stay, show-cause or other procedural order. Not counted as either side's win. Read by a model
The Court directs Plaintiff to submit an IFP application or pay the $402.00 in filing fees within 30 days from the date of this order.
Prevailing party Neither side Read by a model
The Court directs Plaintiff to submit an IFP application or pay the $402.00 in filing fees within 30 days from the date of this order.
The delay claim Not decided here Read by a model
The Court’s procedures further provide that while a plaintiff has 21 days to pay the filings fees, the Court cannot take any action in a case until the plaintiff either files a completed and signed IFP application or pays the filing fees.
Months pending Not stated Read by a model
TRAC factors The court did not weigh the TRAC factors Read by a model
Threshold rulings None Read by a model

How the case ended

Docket
No. 1:21-cv-09468
Filed
November 15, 2021
Ended
June 23, 2023
Suit's filing to its end
585 days
How it ended
Ended once the agency acted
From the record
voluntary dismissal 2023-06-23; idb disp 12 (dismissed: voluntarily)

A voluntary or stipulated dismissal is how most suits end once the agency acts; the docket rarely says why. Other suits in this court.

Supreme Court and Second Circuit authority

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