Wolfire Games LLC v. Valve Corporation ( 2022 )

1 HON. JOHN C. COUGHENOUR 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT WESTERN DISTRICT OF WASHINGTON 9 AT SEATTLE 10 Wolfire Games, LLC, Sean Colvin, Susann Davis, Daniel Escobar, William Herbert, 11 Ryan Lally, Hope Marchionda, Everett Stephens, individually and on behalf of all 12 others similarly situated, 13 Plaintiffs, Civil Action No. 2:21-cv-00563-JCC 14 vs. 15 Valve Corporation, 16 Defendant. 17 DARK CATT STUDIOS HOLDINGS, INC., a Delaware corporation, and DARK CATT Civil Action No. 2:21-cv-00872-JCC 18 STUDIOS INTERACTIVE LLC, an Illinois limited liability company, on behalf of STIPULATED MOTION TO 19 themselves and all others similarly situated, CONSOLIDATE RELATED ACTIONS UNDER LOCAL CIVIL RULE 42 20 Plaintiffs, 21 vs. NOTE ON MOTION CALENDAR: July 22, 22 Valve Corporation, 2022 23 Defendant. 24 Pursuant to Local Civil Rule (“LCR”) 42(a), Plaintiffs Wolfire Games, LLC, Dark Catt 25 Studios Holdings, Inc., Dark Catt Studios Interactive LLC, William Herbert, Daniel Escobar, Sean 26 Colvin, Everett Stephens, Ryan Lally, Susann Davis, and Hope Marchionda (collectively 27 “Plaintiffs”) and Defendant Valve Corporation (collectively with Plaintiffs, the “Parties”) 1 respectfully submit this Stipulated Motion to Consolidate Related Actions and for Leave to File a 2 Consolidated Amended Complaint. 3 This Stipulated Motion seeks to consolidate two related actions currently pending in this 4 Court: Wolfire Games et al. v. Valve Corporation, Case No. 2:21-cv-00563-JCC (W.D. Wash.) 5 (“Wolfire”), and Dark Catt Studios et al. v. Valve Corporation, Case No. 2:21-cv-00872-JCC 6 (W.D. Wash.) (“Dark Catt”). 7 The Wolfire and Dark Catt actions involve claims asserted on behalf of overlapping 8 putative classes regarding allegedly anticompetitive conduct against the same Defendant. 9 Consolidating the cases under LCR 42 will promote efficiency and conserve judicial resources, as 10 well as the Parties’ resources. 11 IT IS THEREFORE STIPULATED AND AGREED, THROUGH COUNSEL OF 12 RECORD, THAT: 13 The Court should consolidate the Dark Catt action into the lower-numbered Wolfire action, 14 under the master caption In re Valve Antitrust Litigation; and 15 If the Court consolidates the Wolfire and Dark Catt cases, Plaintiffs will file a single 16 consolidated complaint in the consolidated action on behalf of game publishers by August 26, 17 2022. 18 Plaintiffs having further stated an intention not to add to any consolidated complaint any 19 substantively new allegations that were not previously included in either the Wolfire or Dark Catt 20 complaints, and recognizing that certain of the claims in the Wolfire complaint were dismissed 21 with prejudice, but seeking to preserve the appeal rights as to those allegations, IT IS 22 THEREFORE FURTHER STIPULATED AND AGREED THAT: 23 Pursuant to established law in this Circuit, Plaintiffs do not intend to include in any 24 consolidated complaint those claims dismissed with prejudice in the Wolfire action (Wolfire Dkt. 25 No. 80), but expressly state their intent to preserve their right to appeal the dismissal of those 26 claims.1 27 1 See, e.g., Lacey v. Maricopa Cnty., 693 F.3d 896, 928 (9th Cir. 2012) (“For claims dismissed 1 DATED July 22, 2022. 2 /s/ Alicia Cobb /s/ Stephanie L. Jensen Alicia Cobb, WSBA #48685 Stephanie L. Jensen, WSBA #42042 3 QUINN EMANUEL URQUHART & WILSON SONSINI GOODRICH & SULLIVAN, LLP ROSATI P.C. 4 1109 First Avenue, Suite 210 701 Fifth Avenue, Suite 5100 Seattle, Washington 98101 Seattle, WA 98104-7036 5 Phone (206) 905-7000 Phone (206) 883-2500 Fax (206) 905-7100 Fax (206) 883-2699 6 aliciacobb@quinnemanuel.com sjensen@wsgr.com 7 Steig D. Olson (pro hac vice) Kenneth R. O’Rourke (pro hac vice) David LeRay (pro hac vice) Scott A. Sher (pro hac vice) 8 QUINN EMANUEL URQUHART & Allison B. Smith (pro hac vice) SULLIVAN, LLP WILSON SONSINI GOODRICH & 9 51 Madison Avenue ROSATI, P.C. New York, New York 10010 1700 K Street, NW, Suite 500 10 Phone (212) 849-7231 Washington, DC 20006 Fax (212) 849-7100 Phone (202) 973-8800 11 steigolson@quinnemanuel.com Fax (202) 973-8899 korourke@wsgr.com 12 Adam Wolfson (pro hac vice) ssher@wsgr.com QUINN EMANUEL URQUHART & allison.smith@wsgr.com 13 SULLIVAN, LLP 865 S. Figueroa St., 10th Floor W. Joseph Bruckner (pro hac vice) 14 Los Angeles, California 90017 Joseph C. Bourne (pro hac vice) Phone (213) 443-3285 LOCKRIDGE GRINDAL NAUEN P.L.L.P. 15 Fax (213) 443-3100 100 Washington Avenue S, Suite 2200 adamwolfson@quinnemanuel.com Minneapolis, MN 55401 16 Phone (612) 339-6900 Charles Stevens (pro hac vice) Fax (612) 339-0981 17 QUINN EMANUEL URQUHART & wjbruckner@locklaw.com SULLIVAN, LLP jcbourne@locklaw.com 18 50 California St., 22nd Floor San Francisco, CA 94111 19 Phone (415) 875-6600 Fax (415) 875-6700 20 charliestevens@quinnemanuel.com /s/ Gavin W. Skok 21 David Golden (pro hac vice) Gavin W. Skok, WSBA #29766 CONSTANTINE CANNON LLP FOX ROTHSCHILD LLP 22 1001 Pennsylvania Ave., 22nd Floor 1001 Fourth Avenue, Suite 4500 Washington, D.C. 20004 Seattle, WA 98154 23 Phone (202) 204-4527 Telephone: (206) 624-3600 Fax (202) 204-3501 Fax: (206) 389-1708 24 dgolden@constantinecannon.com gskok@foxrothschild.com 25 Charles B. Casper (pro hac vice) 26 with prejudice and without leave to amend, we will not require that they be repled in a 27 subsequent amended complaint to preserve them for appeal.”); see also Vien-Phuong Thi Ho v. Reconstruct Co., NA, 858 F.3d 568, 577 (9th Cir. 2017). 1 A. Owen Glist (pro hac vice) MONTGOMERY McCRACKEN WALKER Ankur Kapoor (pro hac vice) & RHOADS LLP 2 Jeffrey I. Shinder (pro hac vice) 1735 Market Street, 21st Floor CONSTANTINE CANNON LLP Philadelphia, PA 19103 3 335 Madison Avenue, 9th Floor Phone (215) 772-1500 New York, NY 10017 ccasper@mmwr.com 4 Phone (212) 350-2700 Fax (212) 350-2701 Attorneys for Defendant Valve Corporation 5 oglist@constantinecannon.com 6 Proposed Interim Co-Lead Counsel 7 Kenneth J. Rubin (pro hac vice) Timothy B. McGranor (pro hac vice) 8 Kara M. Mundy (pro hac vice) VORYS, SATER, SEYMOUR AND 9 PEASE LLP 52 East Gay Street 10 Columbus, Ohio 43215 Phone (614) 464-6400 11 Fax (614) 719-4796 kjrubin@vorys.com 12 tbmcgranor@vorys.com kmmundy@vorys.com 13 Thomas N. McCormick (pro hac vice) 14 VORYS, SATER, SEYMOUR AND PEASE LLP 15 4675 MacArthur Court, Suite 700 Newport Beach, California 92660 16 Phone (949) 526-7903 ǀ Fax (949) 383-2384 tnmccormick@vorys.com 17 Proposed Interim Executive Committee 18 Member 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 1 It is so ORDERED this 22nd day of July 2022. 2 A 3 4 5 John C. Coughenour UNITED STATES DISTRICT JUDGE 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 1 CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE 2 I hereby certify that on July 22, 2022, I caused a true and correct copy of the foregoing to 3 be filed in this Court’s CM/ECF system, which sent notification of such filing to counsel of 4 record. 5 DATED July 22, 2022. 6 7 /s/ Alicia Cobb 8 Alicia Cobb, WSBA #48685 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27