UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, Plaintiff, ORDER -against- 19-CV-11853 (PMH) LEWIS A. SAVOY, et al., Defendants.

PHILIP M. HALPERN, United States District Judge: Pursuant to the New York COVID-19 Emergency Eviction and Foreclosure Prevention Act (“CEEFPA”), foreclosure cases such as the instant matter have been stayed by operation of law. Accordingly, it is hereby ORDERED that this action is stayed; and it is further ORDERED that the Clerk of Court shall administratively close this case, without prejudice to either party moving by letter motion to reopen the case within thirty days of the vacatur of the stay imposed by CEEFPA. See Bernardino v. Barnes & Noble Booksellers, Inc.,

, 103 (2d Cir. 2019) (there is “no jurisdictional significance to [a] docket entry marking [a] case as ‘closed,’ which . . . was made for administrative or statistical convenience.”); Abreu v. Thomas, No. 17-CV-01312,

, at *1 (N.D.N.Y. July 19, 2019) (‘Administrative closure 1s a docket management device which allows the removal of cases from the court’s docket in appropriate situations. The effect of an administrative closure is the same as a stay... .” (internal citations and quotation marks omitted)). All scheduled conferences or other scheduled court appearances are cancelled. Plaintiffis directed to mail a copy of this Order to Defendant Savoy and file proof of service on the docket by 5:00 p.m. on October 18, 2021.

SO ORDERED: Dated: White Plains, New York October 14, 2021 PHILIP M. HALPERN United States District Judge