Opinion ID: 1037860
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Heading: The Initial District Court Proceedings

Text: In March 2008, CMS filed a “Petition to Enforce Foreign Arbitral Award” in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York, and sought to attach certain Argentine assets. The proceedings took place before Judge Loretta A. Preska. During the course of that proceeding, Judge Preska determined that CMS had not identified the assets it sought to attach with the specificity required by the FSIA. As a result of that ruling, CMS filed a notice of voluntary dismissal without prejudice pursuant to Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 41(a)(1)(A)(i).7 In June 2008, Blue Ridge notified Argentina that it had purchased CMS’s interest in the Award and, on March 13, 2009, it filed a petition to confirm the Award in the Southern District of New York. The case was assigned to then-District Judge Gerard E. Lynch. In mid-August 2009, Blue Ridge informed Judge Lynch’s chambers that it did not intend to move forward with the confirmation proceeding at that time, and wished to withdraw its petition without prejudice. On August 31, 2009, Judge Lynch, noting that the parties stated they had “reached a settlement in principle,” issued a so-called “thirty-day order,” which stated “that this action is dismissed without costs and without prejudice to restoring the action to the Court’s calendar, provided the application to restore the action is made within thirty days.” 7 Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 41(a)(1)(A)(i) provides: “Subject to Rules 23(e), 23.1(c), 23.2, and 66 and any applicable federal statute, the plaintiff may dismiss an action without a court order by filing . . . a notice of dismissal before the opposing party serves either an answer or a motion for summary judgment . . . .” 6