Hollingsworth v. City of North Las Vegas ( 2024 )

1 2 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT DISTRICT OF NEVADA 3 4 Andrea Hollingsworth, et al., Case No. 2:21-cv-02230-CDS-NJK 5 Plaintiffs Order Lifting Stay 6 v. 7 City of North Las Vegas, et al., 8 Defendants 9 10 Plaintiffs Andrea Hollingsworth, A.R.H., and A.D.H. initiated this civil rights and 11 discrimination action in 2021. Compl., ECF No. 1. Shortly thereafter, this action was stayed “to 12 explore the possibility of resolution without incurring the time and expense of ongoing 13 litigation prior to [ ] mediation.” ECF No. 22. Mediation proved fruitless thus the stay was lifted 14 on November 7, 2022. First order, ECF No. 31. 15 In March 2024, the parties requested a thirty-day stay “to attempt to resolve this matter 16 without any further court involvement through settlement and/or alternative dispute 17 resolution.” Joint mot., ECF No. 91. This action has been stayed since April 3, 2024. Second 18 order, ECF No. 104. Last month, the parties made their fourth request to extend the stay for 19 settlement negotiations and were ordered to file a joint status report addressing the status of 20 their settlement negotiations by October 3, 2024. ECF No. 116. The deadline passed with the 21 parties failing to file the ordered status report. 22 “[T]he power to stay proceedings is incidental to the power inherent in every court to 23 control the disposition of the causes on its docket with economy of time and effort for itself, for 24 counsel, and for litigants.” Landis v. N. Am. Co., 299 U.S. 248, 254 (1936). Although the court is 25 sympathetic to the personal circumstances that have caused delays, I find that continuing the 26 stay of this matter is no longer warranted. This action has been pending for almost three years. 1 Conclusion 2 It is therefore ordered that the stay imposed on April 3, 2024, is now LIFTED. This 3]| action returns to the normal litigation track and proceeds according to the following scheduling 4] order: 5 Initial Experts: November 15, 2024 6 Rebuttal Experts: December 16, 2024 7 Discovery Cut-off: January 17, 2025 8 Dispositive Motions: February 17, 2025 9 Joint Pretrial Order: March 17, 2025, or thirty days after the resolution of clispositive motions or further court order. 10 Dated: October 9, 2024 /, ) 12 LL B Lia_=—— Cassane D. Silva . 14 Yn ted States District Judge 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26