Moscato v. Comerica Bank ( 2024 )

1 Craig B. Friedberg, NSB #004606 Email: attcbf@cox.net 2 LAW OFFICES OF CRAIG B. FRIEDBERG, ESQ. 4760 South Pecos Road, Suite 103 3 Las Vegas, Nevada 89121 Telephone: (702) 435-7968 4 Evan S. Rothfarb, Admitted Pro Hac Vice 5 Email: erothfarb@consumerprotection.net 6 Daniel A. Schlanger, Admitted Pro Hac Vice Email: dschlanger@consumerprotection.net 7 SCHLANGER LAW GROUP, LLP 80 Broad Street, Suite 3103 8 New York, New York 10004 Telephone: (212) 500-6114 9 Facsimile: (646) 612-7996 10 Counsel for Plaintiff David J. Moscato and the Putative Class 11 [Additional Counsel Appear on Signature Block] 12 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 13 FOR THE DISTRICT OF NEVADA 14 DAVID J. MOSCATO, on behalf of himself and all others similarly situated, NO. 2:23-cv-00993-JAD-DJA 15 16 Plaintiff, STIPULATED MOTION TO AMEND DISCOVERY PLAN (ECF NO. 36) 17 v. (FIRST REQUEST) 18 COMERICA BANK, CONDUENT STATE & 19 LOCAL SOLUTIONS, INC., and CONDUENT BUSINESS SERVICES, LLC, 20 Defendants. 21 22 23 I. STIPULATION 24 The parties respectfully stipulate to, and jointly request the Court enter, the proposed 25 Order below amending the current discovery plan and scheduling order (ECF No. 36). 26 1. Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 16(b) provides that a district court’s scheduling 27 order may be modified upon a showing of “good cause.” Fed. R. Civ. P. 16(b)(4); see also 1 Zivkovic v. S. Cal. Edison Co., 302 F.3d 1080, 1087 (9th Cir. 2002). Good cause exists to 2 modify the schedule because the parties need additional to complete discovery before Plaintiff 3 moves for class certification. 4 2. This is the parties’ first request for an extension of the case schedule. 5 3. The parties have worked diligently and cooperatively on discovery matters. The 6 parties have completed significant written discovery but believe that they will need additional 7 time to complete discovery, including depositions and expert work before class briefing class 8 certification. They request a three-month extension of the current expert, discovery, and class 9 certification deadlines. 10 4. Specifically, Plaintiff has served two sets of written discovery on Defendant 11 Conduent State & Local Services (“Conduent”), and Conduent has served its first set of written 12 discovery requests on Plaintiff. Conduent has begun producing documents responsive to 13 Plaintiff’s requests and the parties are conferring in an effort to resolve disagreements about the 14 scope of Conduent’s production. Plaintiff cannot take efficient depositions until those issues are 15 resolved and Conduent’s production of both policy documents and data relating to cardholders 16 who Plaintiff maintains may be members of the proposed class is complete. Plaintiff also 17 anticipates retaining an expert to analyze Conduent’s data to identify potential class members. 18 5. In addition, the current plan sets a deadline for dispositive motions shortly after 19 the due date for Plaintiff’s motion for class certification, which creates potential one-way 20 intervention problems. See Schwarzschild v. Tse, 69 F.3d 293 (9th Cir. 1995). Under the existing 21 schedule, if any class is certified, Plaintiff will not have sufficient time to provide notice and an 22 opportunity for exclusion to the members of the certified class before dispositive motions are 23 due. The result would be to effectively preclude Plaintiff from seeking summary judgment in the 24 event a class is certified and preclude Conduent from obtaining a summary judgment ruling 25 binding on absent class members. Accordingly, the parties request that dispositive motion 26 deadline be extended by six months to allow time for notice in the event a class is certified. 27 1 For these reasons, the parties have shown good cause for the Court to amend the case 2 schedule as follows: 3 4 Event Current Deadline Proposed Deadline 5 Expert disclosures May 28, 2024 August 28, 2024 6 Rebuttal expert disclosures June 25, 2024 September 25, 2024 7 Discovery cutoff July 25, 2024 October 25, 2024 8 Class certification motion August 25, 2024 November 22, 2024 9 Dispositive motions September 23, 2024 March 21, 2025 10 Joint pretrial order October 23, 2024 April 21, 2025 11 12 13 STIPULATED TO AND DATED this 2nd day of May, 2024. 14 TERRELL MARSHAL LAW GROUP PLLC BALLARD SPAHR LLP 15 16 By: /s/ Blythe H. Chandler By: /s/ Jenny N. Perkins Beth E. Terrell, Pro Hac Vice Forthcoming Jenny N. Perkins, Admitted Pro Hac Vice 17 Email: bterrell@terrellmarshall.com Email: perkinsj@ballardspahr.com 18 Blythe H. Chandler, Admitted Pro Hac Vice Colin P. Kane, Admitted Pro Hac Vice Email: bchandler@terrellmarshall.com Email: kanec@ballardspahr.com 19 936 North 34th Street, Suite 300 1735 Market Street, 51st Floor Seattle, Washington 98103-8869 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19103 20 Telephone: (206) 816-6603 Telephone: (215) 864-8378 21 SCHLANGER LAW GROUP LLP Mitchell Turbenson, Admitted Pro Hac Vice 22 Email: turbensonm@ballardspahr.com Evan S. Rothfarb, Admitted Pro Hac Vice 1 East Washington Street, Suite 2300 23 Email: erothfarb@consumerprotection.net Phoenix, Arizona 85004 Daniel A. Schlanger, Admitted Pro Hac Vice 24 Email: dschlanger@consumerprotection.net Madeleine Coles, NSB #16216 25 80 Broad Street, Suite 1301 Email: colesm@ballardspahr.com New York, New York 10016 1980 Festival Plaza Drive, Suite 900 26 Telephone: (212) 500-6114 Las Vegas, Nevada 89135 Telephone: (702) 379-1157 27 1 LAW OFFICES OF HOLLAND & KNIGHT LLP CRAIG B. FRIEDBERG, ESQ. 2 John C. Grugan, Admitted Pro Hac Vice Craig B. Friedberg, NSB #004606 Email: gruganj@ballardspahr.com Email: attcbf@cox.net 1650 Market Street, Suite 3300 4760 South Pecos Road, Suite 103 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19103 4) Las Vegas, Nevada 89121 Telephone 215.252.9610 5 Telephone: (702) 435-7968 6| Attorneys for Plaintiff and the Putative Class Attorneys for Defendants 7 8 9 10 IT IS SO ORDERED: I □ 1] SA“Y IYO DANIEL J. ALBREGTS | 12 UNITED STATES MAGISTRATE JUDGE 13 DATED: May 3, 2024 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 STIPULATED MOTION TO AMEND DISCOVERY PLAN (ECF NO 26) (ETRS&T REOTIEST) _A 1 CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE 2 I, Blythe H. Chandler, hereby certify that on May 2, 2024, I electronically filed the 3 foregoing with the Clerk of the Court using the CM/ECF system which will send notification to 4 all registered CM/ECF users: 5 Madeleine Coles, NSB #16216 6 Email: colesm@ballardspahr.com BALLARD SPAHR LLP 7 1980 Festival Plaza Drive, Suite 900 Las Vegas, Nevada 89135 8 Telephone: (702) 379-1157 9 John C. Grugan, Admitted Pro Hac Vice 10 Email: gruganj@ballardspahr.com Jenny N. Perkins, Admitted Pro Hac Vice 11 Email: perkinsj@ballardspahr.com Colin P. Kane, Admitted Pro Hac Vice 12 Email: kanec@ballardspahr.com BALLARD SPAHR LLP 13 1735 Market Street, 51st Floor 14 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19103 Telephone: (215) 864-8378 15 Mitchell Turbenson, Admitted Pro Hac Vice 16 Email: turbensonm@ballardspahr.com BALLARD SPAHR LLP 17 1 East Washington Street, Suite 2300 18 Phoenix, Arizona 85004 19 John C. Grugan, Admitted Pro Hac Vice 20 Email: gruganj@ballardspahr.com 21 HOLLAND & KNIGHT LLP 1650 Market Street, Suite 3300 22 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19103 Telephone 215.252.9610 23 Attorneys for Defendants 24 25 DATED this 2nd day of May, 2024. 26 27 By: /s/ Blythe H. Chandler 1 Blythe H. Chandler, Admitted Pro Hac Vice 2 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