AAA v. Clark County School District ( 2021 )

1 PHOEBE V. REDMOND, ESQ. Nevada Bar No. 9657 2 CLARK COUNTY SCHOOL DISTRICT OFFICE OF THE GENERAL COUNSEL 3 5100 West Sahara Avenue Las Vegas, Nevada 89146 4 Tel: (702) 799-5373 Fax: (702) 799-5505 5 redmopv@nv.ccsd.net 6 Attorney for Clark County School District, et al 7 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 8 DISTRICT OF NEVADA 9 10 AAA, A MINOR, BY HER NEXT FRIEND CASE NO.: 2:20-cv-00195-JAD-BNW AND PARENT, AMIR ABDUL-ALIM 11 AND HAFSA ELARFAOUI, and on their own behalf, DEFENDANT CLARK COUNTY 12 SCHOOL DISTRICT’S MOTION FOR Plaintiffs, AN EXTENSION OF TIME TO FILE A 13 RESPONSIVE PLEADING TO v. PLAINTIFFS’ SECOND AMENDED 14 CIVIL RIGHTS COMPLAINT CLARK COUNTY SCHOOL DISTRICT, [ECF NO. 420] 15 ET AL. 16 (FIRST REQUEST) AND, 17 STATE OF NEVDA DEPARTMENT OF 18 EDUCATION, ET AL., 19 Defendants. 20 COMES NOW, Defendant Clark County School District (hereinafter referred to as 21 “Defendant CCSD”), by and through its legal counsel, Phoebe V. Redmond, Assistant General 22 Counsel, hereby submits this DEFENDANT CLARK COUNTY SCHOOL DISTRICT’S 23 MOTION FOR AN EXTENSION OF TIME TO FILE A RESPONSIVE PLEADING TO 24 PLAINTIFFS’ SECOND AMENDED CIVIL RIGHTS COMPLAINT [ECF NO. 420] 25 /./ 26 1 This Motion is based upon the pleadings on file herein, the attached Memorandum of Points 2 and Authorities, and any oral argument the Court may permit at the hearing of this matter. 3 DATED this 27th day of April, 2021. 4 CLARK COUNTY SCHOOL DISTRICT 5 OFFICE OF THE GENERAL COUNSEL 6 7 By: /s/ Phoebe V. Redmond PHOEBE V. REDMOND, ESQ 8 Nevada Bar #9657 5100 West Sahara Avenue 9 Las Vegas, NV 89146 Attorney for Clark County School District, et al 10 11 MEMORANDUM OF POINTS AND AUTHORITIES 12 I. INTRODUCTION 13 Plaintiffs initiated this action in the Eighth Judicial District Court of Nevada on 14 December 27, 2019. (ECF No. 1). This action was removed to the United States District Court 15 16 for the District of Nevada on January 29, 2020. (ECF No. 4). On November 18, 2020, Plaintiffs 17 filed a First Amended Complaint (ECF No. 255).1 Plaintiff’s Second Amended Complaint was 18 filed April 13, 2021. Accordingly, the deadline for Defendant CCSD to file a responsive 19 pleading to Plaintiffs' Complaint is April 27, 2021. For good cause, Defendant CCSD, through 20 its counsel now respectfully requests that the Court extend the Defendant CCSD’s deadline to 21 respond to Plaintiffs' Second Amended Complaint up to and including Tuesday, May 11, 2021. 22 This is due primarily to the number of issues and research required to be included in Defendant 23 CCSD’s responsive pleading. Since Plaintiffs’ Second Amended Complaint was granted 24 25 1 Defendant CCSD filed its Answer to Plaintiffs’ First Amended Complaint on December 2, 26 2020. (ECF No. 274). 1 Plaintiffs served each CCSD Defendant at their place of business, notwithstanding that as 2 counsel of record I agreed to accept service for all CCSD Defendants. This manner of service 3 greatly affected my clients which I was able to assuage on a one to one basis over the last week 4 or so. In addition, I was required to review, respond and advise clients related to approximately 5 nine filings with over 30 attendant exhibits submitted in this case since April 13, 2021. No 6 amount of preplanning could have allowed me to prepare a response for Defendant CCSD by 7 today’s deadline. It is physically impossible to provide a competent responsive pleading as of 8 today’s date. 9 II. LEGAL ARGUMENT 10 "When an act may or must be done within a specified time, the court may, for good cause, 11 extend the time on motion made after the time has expired if the party fails to act because of 12 13 excusable neglect." Fed. R. Civ. P. 6(b); see also LR IA 6-1. "The Court has inherent power and 14 discretion to control its docket, and the proceedings within the cases on its docket." Rule 6(b)(l) 15 allows for a party to move for an enlargement of time, the determination of which lies with the 16 presiding court. "The Court has inherent power and discretion to control its docket, and the 17 proceedings within the cases on its docket." Ford v. County of Missoula, Mont., 2010 U.S. Dist. 22 18 LEXIS 57511, 2010 WL 2674036, 1 (D. Mont., 2010) (citing Landis v. North American Co., 299 19 U.S. 248, 254, 57 S. Ct. 163, 81L.Ed.153 (1936); see also, Fed. R. Civ. P. 6(b) (advisory committee 20 24 note, 1946) ("Rule 6(b) is a rule of general application giving wide discretion to the court to 21 enlarge these limits or revive them after they have expired ... "). 22 /./ 23 /./ 24 /./ 25 /./ 26 I. CONCLUSION 2 Based upon the forgoing, it is respectfully request that Defendant CCSD be grant an 3 extension of time up to and including Tuesday, May 11, 2021 to submit its responsive pleading to the Second Amended Complaint. ° DATED this 27" day of April, 2021. 6 7 || For good cause shown, IT IS CLARK COUNTY SCHOOL DISTRICT ORDERED that ECF No. 436 is OFFICE OF THE GENERAL COUNSEL g || GRANTED. 9 By:_/s/ Phoebe V. Redmond IT IS SO ORDERED PHOEBE V. REDMOND, ESQ 10 |! DATED: 1:56 pm, May 10, 2021 Nevada Bar #9657 5100 West Sahara Avenue 11 Las Vegas, NV 89146 Gx le nro bata Attorney for Clark County School District, et al 12 . BRENDA WEKSLER 13 || UNITED STATES MAGISTRATE JUDGE 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 Page 4o0f 5 1 CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE 2 I HEREBY CERTIFY that on the 27th day of April, 2021, the foregoing DEFENDANT 3 CLARK COUNTY SCHOOL DISTRICT’S MOTION FOR AN EXTENSION OF TIME 4 TO FILE A RESPONSIVE PLEADING TO PLAINTIFFS’ SECOND AMENDED CIVIL 5 RIGHTS COMPLAINT [ECF NO. 420] was filed through the Nevada United States District 6 Court CM/ECF System and served upon the following person(s) in the manner(s) listed below: 7 Via Electronic 8 Amir Abdul-Alim and Hafsa Elarfaoui 9 5412 Retablo Avenue, #3 Las Vegas, NV 89103 10 aabdulalim@aol.com Plaintiffs in Proper Person 11 12 /s/ Eva Martinez 13 AN EMPLOYEE OF THE OFFICE OF THE GENERAL COUNSEL – CCSD 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26