Thomson v. Russell Investment Management LLC ( 2024 )

1 D.Matthew Moscon (admitted pro hac vice) Malori McGill Fery (admitted pro hac vice) 2 MAYER BROWN LLP 201 South Main Street, Suite 1100 3 Salt Lake City, UT 84111 Telephone: (801) 907-2703 4 mmoscon@mayerbrown.com mmcgillfery@mayerbrown.com 5 Nancy G. Ross (admitted pro hac vice) 6 MAYER BROWN LLP 71 South Wacker Drive 7 Chicago, IL 60606 Telephone: (312) 782-0600 8 nross@mayerbrown.com 9 Alex C. Lakatos (admitted pro hac vice) MAYER BROWN LLP 10 1999 K Street N.W. 11 Washington, DC 20006-1101 Telephone: (202) 263-3000 12 alakatos@mayerbrown.com 13 Patrick H. Hicks, Esq. Bar. No. 004632 Diana G. Dickinson, Esq. Bar No. 13477 14 LITTLER MENDELSON P.C. 3960 Howard Hughes Parkway, Suite 300 15 Las Vegas, NV 89169-5937 Telephone: (702) 862-8800 16 phicks@littler.com ddickinson@littler.com 17 Attorneys for Defendants Caesars Holdings, Inc., 18 the Plan Investment Committee, and the 401(k) Plan Committee 19 20 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT DISTRICT OF NEVADA 21 Danny Wanek,Juan Duarte, and Rick Case No. 2:21-cv-00961-CDS-BNW 22 Ruberton, as representatives of a class of similarly situated persons, on behalf of the STIPULATION REGARDING 23 Caesars Entertainment Corporation Savings DEADLINE FOR SUMMARY & Retirement Plan, JUDGMENT MOTIONS 24 Plaintiffs, (SECOND REQUEST REGARDING 25 v. SUBJECT DEADLINE) 26 Russell Investments Trust Company, Caesars Holding, Inc., the Plan Investment 27 Committee, and the 401(k) Plan Committee, 1 WHEREAS, the Court issued the original Scheduling Order in this case on October 12, 2 2021 (ECF No. 63), which listed placeholder dates to be adjusted based on the timing of the 3 Court’s decision on Defendants’ then-pending Motions to Dismiss; 4 WHEREAS, the Court issued an Amended Scheduling Order on April 20, 2023 (ECF No. 5 115)listing specific dates for each deadline; 6 WHEREAS, on December 29, 2023, the parties jointly requested (ECF No. 149) that the 7 Court extend the deadlines due to voluminous document productions and to allow additional time 8 to coordinate the schedules of the multiple parties required to conduct numerous fact witness 9 depositions; 10 WHEREAS, the Court granted the parties’ request on January 2, 2024 (ECF No. 150) and 11 entered an Amended Scheduling Order; 12 WHEREAS, on August 16, 2024, the parties filed (ECF No. 189) a stipulated request to 13 extend the deadline for expert discovery from September 6, 2024 to September 27, 2024 to allow 14 additional time to coordinate the schedules of the multiple parties required to conduct the 15 depositions of six expert witnesses; 16 WHEREAS, the Court granted the parties’ stipulation to extend the expert discovery 17 deadline on August 20, 2024 (ECF No. 190); 18 WHEREAS, the current deadline for any party to file a motion for summary judgment is 19 September 16, 2024, which falls approximately two weeks before the deadline for expert 20 discovery; 21 WHEREAS, when an existing motion deadline “cannot reasonably be met despite the 22 [parties’] diligence,” good cause exists to extend the deadline, Johnson v. Mammoth Recs., Inc., 23 975 F.2d 604, 609 (9th Cir. 1992), and “[t]he proper procedure, when additional time for any 24 purpose is needed is to present the Court a timely request for an extension before the time fixed 25 has expired,” Kinford v. Moyle, 2021 WL 3021150, at *2 (D. Nev. July 15, 2021) (quoting Canup 26 v.Miss. Valley Barge Line Co., 31 F.R.D. 282, 283 (D. Pa. 1962)). 27 -1- 1 WHEREAS, the parties timely request an extension on the deadline to file motions for 2 summary judgment to allow adequate time to prepare such motions upon concluding expert 3 discovery and to conduct such matters as obtaining the transcripts of all expert depositions, 4 analyzing those transcripts, and adequately preparing their statement(s) of genuinely undisputed 5 materials facts and accompanying motion(s) with the benefit of expert discovery; 6 WHEREAS, although the current scheduling order does not set deadlines for a party’s 7 response or reply to a motion for summary judgment, the parties also respectfully request an 8 extension on the deadlines to file responses and replies to any motion for summary judgment 9 beyond those established by Local Rule 7-2(b) to account for the substantial amount of fact and 10 expert discovery that will affect such responses and replies; 11 WHEREAS, there is good cause to reasonably extend the deadline to file motions for 12 summary judgment and the deadlines to file responses and replies to any motion for summary 13 judgment and this request is not the result of unnecessary delay or a lack of diligence by any 14 party; and 15 WHEREAS, this is the second request for an extension of time affecting the deadline for 16 motions for summary judgment and the first request for an extension of time affecting the 17 deadlines for responses and replies to motions for summary judgment; 18 IT IS HEREBY STIPULATED AND AGREED, pursuant to Local Rules IA 6-1 and 26- 19 3 and subject to the approval of the Court, that the briefing schedule for summary judgment be 20 extended as follows: 21 Event Existing Date Proposed Date 22 Deadline to file motions for September 16, 2024 November 22, 2024 summary judgment 23 Deadline to file responses to October 7, 2024 December 20, 2024 24 motions for summary judgment 25 Deadline to file replies to October 21, 2024 January 17, 2025 motions for summary 26 judgment 27 -2- 1 Dated: August 27, 2024 /s/ D. Matthew Moscon 2 MAYER BROWN LLP Nancy G. Ross (admitted pro hac vice) 3 71 South Wacker Drive Chicago, IL 60606 4 Telephone: (312) 782-0600 nross@mayerbrown.com 5 D.Matthew Moscon (admitted pro hac vice) 6 Malori McGill Fery (admitted pro hac vice) 201 S. Main Street, Suite 1100 7 Salt Lake City, UT 84111 Telephone: (801) 907-2703 8 mmoscon@mayerbrown.com mmcgillfery@mayerbrown.com 9 10 Alex C. Lakatos (admitted pro hac vice) 1999 K Street N.W. 11 Washington, DC 20006-1101 Telephone: (202) 263-3000 12 alakatos@mayerbrown.com 13 LITTLER MENDELSON P.C. Patrick H. Hicks, Esq. Bar. No. 004632 14 Diana G. Dickinson, Esq. Bar No. 13477 3960 Howard Hughes Parkway, Suite 300 15 Las Vegas, Nevada 89169-5937 Telephone: (702) 862-8800 16 phicks@littler.com ddickinson@littler.com 17 18 Attorneys for Defendants Caesars Holdings, Inc., the Plan Investment Committee, and the 19 401(k) Plan Committee 20 /s/ Robert C. Hora 21 22 MILBANK LLP Sean M. Murphy, Esq. (admitted pro hac vice) 23 Robert C. Hora, Esq. (admittedpro hac vice) 55 Hudson Yards, 34th Floor 24 New York, NY 10001-2163 25 Telephone: (212) 530-5000 smurphy@milbank.com 26 rhora@milbank.com 27 PARSONS BEHLE & LATIMER -3- 1 Rew R. Goodenow, Esq., NSBN 3722 Michael R. Kealy, Esq., NSBN 971 2 50 West Liberty Street, Suite 750 3 Reno, NV 89501 Telephone: (775) 323-1601 4 rgoodenow @ parsonsbehle.com mkealy @ parsonsbehle.com 6 Attorneys for Defendant Russell Investments Trust Company /s/_ Benjamin J. Bauer NICHOLS KASTER, PLLP 9 Paul J. Lukas, Esq. (admitted pro hac vice) Brock J. Specht, Esq. (admitted pro hac vice) 10 Benjamin J. Bauer, Esq. (admitted pro hac vice) ll 4700 IDS Center 80S. 8th Street 12 Minneapolis, MN 55402 Telephone: (612) 256-3200 13 PAUL PADDA LAW, PLLC 14 Paul S. Padda, Esq. 4560 South Decatur Blvd., Suite 300 15 Las Vegas, NV 89103 16 Telephone: (702) 366-1888 7 Attorneys for Plaintiffs 18 19 20 91 || DATED: _8/29/2024 IT IS SO ORDERED. 22 pa a8 fn ITED STATES DISTRICT JUDGE 23 UNITED STATES MAGISTRATE JUDGE 24 25 26 27 28 “+ STIPULATION REGARDING DEADLINE FOR SUMMARY JUDGMENT MOTION, Ss