Deressa v. Mayorkas ( 2022 )

1 Chief Judge Ricardo S. Martinez 2 Magistrate Judge Michelle L. Peterson 3 4 5 6 7 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 8 WESTERN DISTRICT OF WASHINGTON AT SEATTLE 9 KENBON DERESSA and KELEM BERIHUN, Case No. 2:21-cv-01528-RSM-MLP 10 Plaintiffs, STIPULATION FOR EXTENSION OF 11 TIME v. 12 Note on Motion Calendar: ALEJANDRO MAYORKAS, Secretary of the February 4, 2022 13 Department of Homeland Security; ANTONY BLINKEN, United States Secretary of State; UR 14 JADDOU, Director of United States Citizenship and Immigration Services; TRINA SWANSON, 15 United States Citizenship and Immigration Services Nairobi Field Office Director; FIONA 16 EVANS, Deputy Chief of Mission for the United States Embassy in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia; and 17 PEGGY PETROVICH, Director of the National Visa Center; 18 Defendants. 19 20 COME NOW, Plaintiffs, Kenbon Deressa, Kelem Berihun and Federal Defendants, by 21 and through their counsel of record, pursuant to Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 6 and Local 22 Rules 10(g) and 16, and hereby jointly stipulate and move to stay the initial scheduling dates set 23 24 1 by the Court (Dkt. No. 8). Defendants filed a motion to dismiss the Complaint on February 1, 2 2022 (Dkt. No. 9). 3 A court may modify a deadline for good cause. Fed. R. Civ. P. 6(b). Continuing pretrial 4 and trial dates is within the discretion of the trial judge. See King v. State of California, 5 784 F.2d 910, 912 (9th Cir. 1986). Defendants filed a motion to dismiss (Dkt. No. 9) and 6 although there are no current offers being discussed, all parties are open to resolving this matter, 7 if possible, without the need for litigation. Therefore, the parties believe good cause exists for a 8 brief stay to allow the Court to rule on the motion to dismiss in order to save the parties from 9 spending unnecessary time and resources on this matter. 10 In light of the above, the parties jointly stipulate and request that the Court: 11 1. Stay the initial scheduling dates set forth in the Court’s Scheduling Order. Dkt. No. 8. 12 13 Stipulated to and presented this 4th day of February, 2022. 14 O’SULLIVAN LAW OFFICE NICHOLAS W. BROWN 15 United States Attorney 16 s/ Jane O’Sullivan s/ Nickolas Bohl JANE O’SULLIVAN, WSBA #34486 NICKOLAS BOHL WSBA #48978 17 2417 Pacific Avenue S.E., 2nd Floor Assistant United States Attorney Olympia, WA 98501 United States Attorney’s Office 18 Phone: 360-637-3574 700 Stewart Street, Suite 5220 Email: jane@osullivanlawoffice.com Seattle, Washington 98101-1271 19 Phone: 206-553-7970 Counsel for Plaintiffs Fax: 206-553-4067 20 Email: nickolas.bohl@usdoj.gov 21 Counsel for Defendants 22 23 24 1 ORDER 2 The parties having stipulated and agreed, it is hereby so ORDERED. 3 4 DATED this 7th day of February, 2022. 5 A 6 MICHELLE L. PETERSON United States Magistrate Judge 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24