No. 21-5716

Pecola Cousar v. New York-Presbyterian Queens

Lower Court: Second Circuit
Docketed: 2021-09-20
Status: Denied
Type: IFP
Response WaivedIFP
Tags: civil-procedure civil-rights discovery district-court-discretion due-process pro-se-litigant procedural-error standing summary-judgment title-vii
Key Terms:
SocialSecurity
Latest Conference: 2021-10-15
Question Presented (from Petition)

Whether the district court error and/or abused its discretion by not affording the
Petitioner leave to amend her complaint and instead granted the Respondent
summary judgment without any consideration or regards to Petitioner 's substantive
rights under 281 U.S.C. § 2072 (b)?

Whether the district court error and/or abused its discretion by omitting the
Petitioner's former Counsel of Record, James D. Hartt, Esq., who initiated the Title
VII civil action on April 13, 2016 in the U.S. District Court on behalf of the
Petitioner who was not even Pro Se at the time, all of which was not mentioned in
the memorandum & Order [USDC/EDNY - 16-cv-1784 (MLK)(LB) - Doc. No. 104].

Whether the district court error and/or abused its discretion by stating in its
memorandum & order [USDC/EDNY - 16-cv-1784 (MLK)(LB) - Doc. No. 104]
"Plaintiff... [was] proceeding prose..." commenced the above-caption action on April
13, 2016, when Petitioner 's former Counsel of Record, commenced the action on
behalf of the Petitioner?

Whether the district court error and/or abused its discretion by not permitting
Petitioner liberal discovery.

Whether the district court error and/or abused its discretion by ignoring the
Petitioner's Affidavit of Request for Summary Judgment [USDC/EDNY- Doc. No.
59].

Question Presented (AI Summary)

Whether the district court erred and/or abused its discretion

Docket Entries

2021-10-18
Petition DENIED.
2021-09-30
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 10/15/2021.
2021-09-22
Waiver of right of respondent New York-Presbyterian Queens to respond filed.
2021-07-17
Petition for a writ of certiorari and motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis filed. (Response due October 20, 2021)

Attorneys

New York-Presbyterian Queens
John Houston PopeEpstein Becker & Green, P.C., Respondent
Pecola Cousar
Pecola Cousar — Petitioner