Terry v. Wasatch Advantage Group, LLC ( 2020 )

1 Laura L. Ho (SBN 173179) lho@gbdhlegal.com 2 Anne Bellows (SBN 293722) abellows@gbdhlegal.com 3 Beth Holtzman (SBN 316400) bholtzman@gbdhlegal.com 4 GOLDSTEIN, BORGEN, DARDARIAN & HO 300 Lakeside Drive, Suite 1000 5 Oakland, CA 94612 Tel: (510) 763-9800 6 Fax: (510) 835-1417 7 Attorneys for Plaintiffs and Relators (Additional Counsel listed on the following page) 8 Joseph A. Salazar Jr. (SBN 169551) 9 Joe.Salazar@lewisbrisbois.com LEWIS BRISBOIS BISGAARD & SMITH LLP 10 2020 West El Camino Avenue, Suite 700 Sacramento, CA 95833 11 Tel: (916) 564-5400 Fax: (916) 564-5444 12 Attorney for Defendants 13 14 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 15 EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA SACRAMENTO DIVISION 16 17 UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, ex rel. Case No.: 2:15-CV-00799-KJM-DB DENIKA TERRY, ROY HUSKEY III, and 18 TAMERA LIVINGSTON, and each of them for CLASS ACTION themselves individually, and for all other persons 19 similarly situated and on behalf of the UNITED STIPULATION AND ORDER REGARDING STATES OF AMERICA AMENDMENTS TO THE SCHEDULING 20 ORDER Plaintiffs/Relators, 21 Before: Hon. Kimberly Mueller vs. 22 Trial Date: None Set WASATCH ADVANTAGE GROUP, LLC, 23 WASATCH PROPERTY MANAGEMENT, INC., WASATCH POOL HOLDINGS, LLC, 24 CHESAPEAKE COMMONS HOLDINGS, LLC, LOGAN PARK APARTMENTS, LLC, LOGAN 25 PARK APARTMENTS, LP, and DOES 1-30, 26 Defendants. 27 1 Andrew Wolff (SBN 195092) andrew@awolfflaw.com 2 Tony Ruch (SBN 242717) LAW OFFICES OF ANDREW WOLFF, PC 3 1615 Broadway, 4th Floor Oakland, CA 94612 4 Tel: (510) 834-3300 Fax: (510) 834-3377 5 Jesse Newmark (SBN 247488) 6 jessenewmark@centrolegal.org Micaela Alvarez (SBN 319908) 7 malvarez@centrolegal.org CENTRO LEGAL DE LA RAZA 8 3022 International Blvd., Suite 410 Oakland, CA 94601 9 Tel: (510) 437-1863 Fax: (510) 437-9164 10 Attorneys for Plaintiffs and Relators 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 1 Plaintiffs and Relators Denika Terry, Roy Huskey III, and Tamera Livingston and Defendants 2 Wasatch Advantage Group, LLC, Wasatch Property Management, Inc., Wasatch Pool Holdings, LLC, 3 Chesapeake Commons Holdings, LLC, Logan Park Apartments, LLC, and Logan Park Apartments, LP 4 (together, “the Parties”), by and through their undersigned counsel, hereby stipulate as follows: 5 WHEREAS, under Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 16(b)(4), the Court has broad discretion to 6 modify a pretrial scheduling order on a showing of “good cause,” focusing on the diligence of the 7 parties and the reasons for the requested modification, Johnson v. Mammoth Recreations, Inc., 975 8 F.2d 604, 609 (9th Cir. 1992); C.F. ex rel. Farnan v. Capistrano Unified Sch. Dist., 654 F.3d 975, 984 9 (9th Cir. 2011); 10 WHEREAS, fact discovery in this case is currently set to close on October 7, 2020 pursuant to 11 a stipulation approved by Court on July 11, 2019 (ECF No. 111); 12 WHEREAS, by Order on January 15, 2020 the Court indicated that it would consider further 13 requests for amendments to the scheduling order upon the filing of a stipulation and proposed order by 14 the Parties (ECF No. 115); 15 WHEREAS, the Parties have diligently pursued fact discovery but have encountered several 16 substantial delays in their ongoing merits discovery due to discovery disputes, which they have tried to 17 resolve in good faith; 18 WHEREAS, the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic and shelter in place orders have resulted in 19 unavoidable and lengthy delays at all stages of the discovery process, despite counsel’s best efforts; 20 WHEREAS, a document production by Defendants that the Parties began to discuss in January 21 of this year has still not been made; 22 WHEREAS, significant fact discovery remains to be completed, including a sizeable 23 production of Defendants’ training documents and communications; resolution of the Parties’ ongoing 24 dispute regarding the data to which Plaintiffs are entitled from Defendants’ centralized property- 25 management database and a subsequent production of data; responses to further written discovery; and 26 depositions; 27 WHEREAS, it is not possible for the Parties to complete this work in the two months 1 WHEREAS, good cause to amend the scheduling order exists based on the Parties’ diligence 2 and the importance of completing fact discovery so that this case may be resolved on its merits; 3 WHEREAS, the Parties agree that the following modifications to the Court’s scheduling order 4 would be appropriate: 5  Fact discovery shall be completed by April 7, 2021; 6  Expert witness disclosures shall be made no later than May 5, 2021; 7  Rebuttal expert witness disclosures shall be made no later May 26, 2021; 8  All expert discovery shall be completed no later than June 30, 2021; 9  All dispositive motions, except motions for continuances, temporary restraining orders 10 or other emergency applications, shall be filed no later than July 28, 2021; 11 THEREFORE, the Parties jointly stipulate and request that the Court so order. 12 Dated: August 11, 2020 Respectfully submitted, 13 GOLDSTEIN, BORGEN, DARDARIAN & HO 14 15 /s/ Anne P. Bellows Anne P. Bellows 16 Attorneys for Plaintiff and Relators 17 Dated: August 11, 2020 Respectfully submitted, 18 LEWIS BRISBOIS BISGAARD & SMITH LLP 19 20 /s/ Ryan Matthews (as authorized on 8/11/2020) Ryan Matthews 21 Attorneys for Defendants 22 23 24 25 26 27 1 IT IS SO ORDERED. 2 Dated: August 12, 2020. 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27