G.P.P., Inc. v. Guardian Protection Products, Inc. ( 2021 )

1 COLLEEN BAL (SBN 167637) STU ART A. WILLIAMS (pro hac vice) JOHN P. FLYNN (SBN 141094) WILSON SONSINI GOODRICH & ROSATI 2 WILSON SONSINI GOODRICH & ROSATI Professional Corporation Professional Corporation 375 Southpointe Boulevard 3 One Market Plaza Canonsburg, Pennsylvania 15317 4 Spear Tower, Suite 3300 Telephone: (917) 288-5094 San Francisco, California 94105 Facsimile: (212) 999-5899 5 Telephone: (415) 947-2000 Email: swilliams@wsgr.com Facsimile: (415) 947-2099 6 Email: jflynn@wsgr.com; cbal@wsgr.com 7 DYLAN J. LIDDIARD (SBN 203055) 8 WILSON SONSINI GOODRICH & ROSATI Professional Corporation 9 650 Page Mill Road Palo Alto, California 94304 10 Telephone: (650) 493-9300 Facsimile: (650) 565-5100 11 Email: dliddiard@wsgr.com 12 Attorneys for Plaintiff 13 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 14 EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA FRESNO DIVISION 15 ) 16 G.P.P., INC. d/b/a GUARDIAN INNOVATIVE ) Case No. 1:15-cv-00321-SKO 17 SOLUTIONS, ) ) STIPULATION AND ORDER 18 Plaintiff, ) REGARDING DEADLINE FOR ) BILL OF COSTS 19 v. ) ) (Doc. 500) 20 GUARDIAN PROTECTION PRODUCTS, INC., ) 21 and RPM WOOD FINISHES GROUP, INC., ) Courtroom: 7 (Sixth Floor) ) Judge: Hon. Sheila K. Oberto 22 Defendants. ) ) 23 24 25 26 27 1 WHEREAS, the Court entered judgment in this matter on December 13, 2021, Dkt. 499; 2 WHEREAS, under Local Rule 292, the current deadline to file bills of costs is December 3 27, 2021 and the current deadline to file motions for attorneys’ fees is January 10, 2022; 4 WHEREAS, plaintiff G.P.P. Inc. d/b/a Guardian Innovative Solutions (“GIS”), intends to 5 file a motion pursuant to FRCP 50(b) on or before January 10, 2022, which will toll the deadline 6 to file motions for attorneys’ fees until twenty-eight (28) days after the Court issues its Order on 7 GIS’s FRCP 50(b) motion. See, e.g., Bailey v. Cty. of Riverside, 414 F.3d 1023, 1025 (9th Cir. 8 2005); Hopkins v. Wells Fargo Bank, N.A., No. 2:13-444 WBS CKD, 2014 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 9 89612, at *2-3 n.4 (E.D. Cal. July 1, 2014); 10 WHEREAS, the parties have met and conferred and agreed that the deadline to file bills of 11 costs should be continued to match the deadline to file motions for attorneys’ fees; 12 WHEREAS, the parties believe that there is good cause to extend the deadline to file bills 13 of costs due to the upcoming holidays and to avoid duplicative briefing on issues common to both 14 bills of costs and motions for attorneys’ fees; 15 WHEREAS, the parties have not sought any prior extensions of the deadline to file bills of 16 costs; 17 THEREFORE, the parties hereby stipulate and respectfully request that the Court order 18 that: the deadline for any party to file a bill of costs shall be the same day as the applicable 19 deadline to file a motion for attorneys’ fees, and that the applicable deadline to file both a bill of 20 costs and a motion for attorneys’ fees shall be twenty-eight (28) days after the Court’s ruling on 21 GIS’s anticipated FRCP 50(b) motion in accordance with FRCP 54, E.D. Cal. L.R. 293, and 22 applicable law. In the event GIS does not file such a motion, then the parties request that motions 23 for fees and bills of cost be due on or before February 7, 2022 (28 days after the January 10, 2022 24 deadline for a Rule 50(b) motion). 25 26 27 1 IT IS SO STIPULATED. 2 Dated: December 20, 2021 Respectfully submitted, 3 WILSON SONSINI GOODRICH & ROSATI 4 Professional Corporation 5 By: s/ Colleen Bal 6 Attorneys for Plaintiff 7 8 GORDON & REES LLP 9 By: s/ Aaron Rudin (as authorized on December 20, 2021) 10 Attorneys for Defendants 11 12 13 ORDER 14 Pursuant the parties’ above stipulation (Doc. 500), and for good cause shown, 15 IT IS HEREBY ORDERED that the deadline for any party to file a bill of costs shall be the 16 same day as the applicable deadline to file a motion for attorneys’ fees, and that the applicable 17 deadline to file both a bill of costs and a motion for attorneys’ fees shall be twenty-eight (28) days 18 after the Court’s ruling on Plaintiff GIS’s anticipated Rule 50(b) motion. In the event GIS does not 19 file a Rule 50(b) motion, the parties’ motions for fees and bills of cost shall be filed by no later than 20 February 7, 2022. 21 IT IS SO ORDERED. 22 23 Dated: December 21, 2021 /s/ Sheila K. Oberto . UNITED STATES MAGISTRATE JUDGE 24 25 26 27