UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK ----------------------------------------------------------X EVERCARE CHOICE INC., ORDER Plaintiff, v. 20-CV-02733 (PMH)

PKF O’CONNOR DAVIES, LLP; O’CONNOR DAVIES, LLP, O’CONNOR DAVIES MUNNS & DOBBINS, LLP; and Individuals THOMAS P. KENNEDY; CHRISTOPHER J. McCARTHY; MICHAEL J. SUAREZ; GARRETT M. HIGGINS; DOROTHEA RUSSO, AND JOHN DOES 1-10, Defendants. ---------------------------------------------------------X

PHILIP M. HALPERN, United States District Judge:

Counsel for all parties appeared via telephone at 10:00 a.m. today for a status conference. Oral argument was held on the record. For the reasons indicated on the record and law cited therein, defendants’ motion to compel arbitration (Doc. 24) is GRANTED. This action is hereby STAYED pending mediation and arbitration. All currently scheduled conferences and deadlines are cancelled. See transcript. The Clerk of the Court is respectfully directed to terminate the pending motion (Doc. 24) and administratively close this case, without prejudice to either party moving by letter motion to reopen the case within thirty days of the conclusion of the arbitration proceedings.1 SO ORDERED:

Dated: New York, New York January 5, 2021 ____________________________ Philip M. Halpern United States District Judge

1 See Zimmerman v. UBS AG,

, at *6 (S.D.N.Y. Aug. 24, 2018), appeal dismissed,

, 915–16 (2d Cir. 2020) (summary order) (“The district court’s administrative closure of the case does not constitute a final decision: there is no jurisdictional significance to [a] docket entry marking [a] case as ‘closed,’ which