Symeonides v. Trump Ruffin Commercial LLC ( 2024 )

1 LEWIS BRISBOIS BISGAARD & SMITH LLP JOSH COLE AICKLEN 2 Nevada Bar No. 007254 Josh.Aicklen@lewisbrisbois.com 3 DAVID B. AVAKIAN Nevada Bar No. 009502 4 YILMAZ E. TURKERI Nevada Bar No. 15468 5 David.Avakian@lewisbrisbois.com 6385 S. Rainbow Boulevard, Suite 600 6 Las Vegas, Nevada 89118 Telephone: 702.893.3383 7 Facsimile: 702.893.3789 Attorneys for Defendant TRUMP RUFFIN 8 TOWER I, LLC, erroneously sued herein as TRUMP RUFFIN COMMERCIAL, LLC, d/b/a 9 TRUMP INTERNATIONAL LAS VEGAS and TRUMP INTERNATIONAL HOTEL & 10 TOWER LAS VEGAS; and TRUMP INTERNATIONAL HOTELS MANAGEMENT, 11 LLC 12 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 13 DISTRICT OF NEVADA, SOUTHERN DIVISION 14 15 SEBASTIAN SYMEONIDES, an Case No. 2:23-cv-00854-JAD-MDC Individual, 16 STIPULATION TO EXCEED THE 10 Plaintiff, DEPOSITION LIMIT PURSUANT TO 17 RULE 30(a)(2)(A) vs. 18 TRUMP RUFFIN COMMERCIAL, LLC, a 19 Foreign Limited-Liability Company d/b/a TRUMP INTERNATIONAL LAS VEGAS 20 and TRUMP INTERNATIONAL HOTEL & TOWER LAS VEGAS; TRUMP RUFFIN 21 TOWER I, LLC, a Foreign Limited-Liability Company; TRUMP INTERNATIONAL 22 HOTELS MANAGEMENT, LLC, a Foreign Limited-Liability Company; OTIS 23 ELEVATOR CORPORATION, a Foreign Corporation; DOES I through X, inclusive; 24 and ROE BUSINESS ENTITIES I through XX, inclusive, 25 Defendants. 26 27 COMES NOW, Plaintiff SEBASTIAN SYMEONIDES, by and through his attorneys 1 of record, the law firm CHRISTIANSEN TRIAL LAWYERS, Defendant TRUMP RUFFIN 2 TOWER I, LLC, erroneously sued herein as TRUMP RUFFIN COMMERCIAL, LLC, d/b/a 3 TRUMP INTERNATIONAL LAS VEGAS and TRUMP INTERNATIONAL HOTEL & 4 TOWER LAS VEGAS; and TRUMP INTERNATIONAL HOTELS MANAGEMENT, LLC by 5 and through its counsel of record, the law firm LEWIS BRISBOIS BISGAARD & SMITH LLP 6 and Defendant OTIS ELEVATOR COMPANY by and through its counsel of record, the law 7 firm ROGERS, MASTRANGELO, CARVALHO, AND MITCHELL and TUCKER ELLIS LLP, 8 and hereby agree that the limit of ten (10) depositions per side, set forth by Fed. R. Civ. P. 9 30(a)(2)(A), will be exceeded by Defendants and by Plaintiffs as stipulated herein. 10 This matter involves allegations of personal injury by Plaintiff SEBASTIAN 11 SYMEONIDES as a result of an alleged elevator incident on February 14, 2022. Due to 12 the degree of alleged damages, as well as the complexity of the damages and the alleged 13 incident, the parties agree that the ten (10) deposition limit per side will prevent the parties 14 from adequately preparing their cases for trial in this matter. This matter involves numerous 15 fact witnesses, including numerous medical and expert witnesses, which will need to be 16 deposed to adequately resolve this matter on the merits. 17 Therefore, the parties hereby stipulate to exceed ten (10) depositions per Fed. R. 18 Civ. P 30(a)(2)(A), subject to the following: 19 1. Nothing in the parties’ stipulation or any associated Order shall be construed so 20 as to modify the Fed. R. Civ. P. 30(d)(1) limitations as to deposition duration 21 (“[u]nless otherwise stipulated or ordered by the court, a deposition is limited to 22 1 day of 7 hours”); nor shall this stipulation be construed so as to deprive any 23 party of that party’s right to seek Court relief from the Rule 30(d) deposition 24 duration limitations pursuant to that subsection. 25 2. Nothing in the parties’ stipulation or any associated Order shall be construed so 26 as to prejudice or preclude the right of any parties hereto from seeking Court 27 relief, including but not limited to any protective orders, pursuant to any 1 limited to Fed. R. Civ. P. 26(c), 30(d), 30(g). 2 || Dated this 7th day of May, 2024 Dated this 7th day of May, 2024 3 )| CHRISTIANSEN TRIAL LAWYERS LEWIS BRISBOIS BISGAARD & SMITH LLP 4 5 /s/ R. Todd Terry /s/ Josh Cole Aicklen || PETER CHRISTIANSEN, ESQ. JOSH COLE AICKLEN, ESQ. Nevada Bar No. 5254 Nevada Bar No. 7254 || R. TODD TERRY, ESQ. DAVID B. AVAKIAN, ESQ. Nevada Bar No. 6519 Nevada Bar No. 9502 KEELY P. CHIPPOLETTI, ESQ. YILMAZ E. TURKERI, ESQ. 9 Nevada Bar No. 13931 Nevada Bar No. 15468 710 South 7" Street 6385 S. Rainbow Blvd., Suite 600 10 || Las Vegas, NV 89101 Las Vegas, NV 89118 Attorneys for Plaintiff Attomeys for Defendant 11 Trump Ruffin Tower I, Trump International Dated this 7th day of May, 2024 Las Vegas and Trump International Hotel ROGERS, MASTRANGELO, CARVALHO & Tower Las Vegas and Trump emit CHELL , International Hotels Management, LLC 14 15 /s/ Rebecca L. Mastrangelo REBECCA L. MASTRANGELO, ESQ. || Nevada Bar No. 5417 17 700 South 3 Street Las Vegas, NV 89101 18 || Attorneys for Defendant Otis Elevator Company 19 Dated this__ day of May, 2024 TUCKER ELLIS LLP 21 . LAL ep /s/ Vasudhsiri T. Sathienmars ff wf 22 Lg / SU-LYN COMBS, ESQ. (Pro Hac Vice) IT IS SO $y 23 || 515 South Flower Street a ff ' Forty-Second Floor Af ff \ 24 || Los Angeles, CA 90071 . t——_. t— 25 || V. SATHIENMARS (Pro Hac Vice) United States Magistrate Judge 6 201 Mission Street, Suite 2310 San Francisco, CA 94105 27 . 5-9-2 Attorneys for Defendant Otis Elevator DATED: Oe 28 || Company wrt lf TN AAANeK □ □□□□ □□