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Disputed Deli Deal Leads To W 119 St Mystery and Motion to Judge Liman To Withdraw

By Matthew Russell Lee, Patreon
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SDNY COURTHOUSE, June 14 – Sometimes Fair Labor Standards Act litigation gets interesting or volatile. Such was the case on May 28 before Judge Lewis J. Liman of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York. Inner City Press covered the proceeding.  A settlement had been filed, but was then contested.

But Judge Liman, reading from the docket during the conference, said he was troubled by counsel's statements to the court.  

Still, judiciously, he focused on resolving the dispute, urging the parties to contact the assigned Magistrate Judge Ona T. Wang, or a mediator. If not, he's going to rule on the motion to set aside the default judgement.

  Now on June 14, the phantom settler's lawyer is seeking to withdraw, stating in part: "I have sent my client two letters by US Mail, one sent on or about April 18, 2020, and another on or about June 1, 2020. I have also emailed him, messaged him on facebook, and my office has made calls and sent text messages. In terms of calls and text messages, my office has attempted to contact him in that manner once a week for the past 3 weeks. Voicemails were left but no response was received.

10. I also attempted to visit Plaintiff at two of the physical addresses I have for him. At one address, no one answered when I knocked on the door.

11. The other address I have for Plaintiff is actually from the “Waiver of General Liability” that Defendants filed on the docket. That document lists the following address for Plaintiff: 30 West 119th Street, Apt 4, New York, NY 10026. When I went to that address, I spoke to an individual named Mansoor S. Alhalmi who said he lived there but that Plaintiff did not live there. When I asked him where Plaintiff did live, he asked me my name. I identified myself as an attorney and gave my name, Mohammed Gangat. Mr. Alhalmi stopped speaking with me immediately. Interestingly, I represent another individual in another wage and hour action against a deli where we obtained a default judgment against an individual defendant named Mansoor S. Alhalmi, residing at 30 West 119th Street, Apt 4, New York, NY 10026. See Bouhajrah v. Halmi et al., No 651962/2019 (Sup. Ct., NY Cty.)

12. In terms of communicating with the Plaintiff, I think the Defendants or Mr. Alhalmi are in contact with Plaintiff, however neither of them are willing to share any information with me so at this point I have no other ways of attempting to contact Plaintiff and must seek to withdraw." Will Judge Liman accep it?

The case is El Aalaoui v. Lucky Star Gourmet Deli Inc. et al, 19-cv-773 (Liman). 

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