Allen v. Vocatus, LLC

• Court: District Court, D. Nevada
• Decided: November 12, 2021
• Docket: 2:21-cv-00377
• Status: Unknown

Opinion

1 SUZANNE L. MARTIN Nevada Bar No. 8833 2 suzanne.martin@ogletree.com AMY L. HOWARD 3 Nevada Bar No. 13946 4 amy.howard@ogletree.com OGLETREE, DEAKINS, NASH, SMOAK & STEWART, P.C. 5 Wells Fargo Tower Suite 1500 6 3800 Howard Hughes Parkway Las Vegas, NV 89169 7 Telephone: 702.369.6800 8 Fax: 702.369.6888 Attorneys for Defendants Vocatus, LLC and 9 Shamoun’s, LLC

10 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT DISTRICT OF NEVADA 11

12 ERIN ALLEN, Case No. 2:21-cv-00377-APG-EJY

13 Plaintiff, 14 STIPULATION AND [PROPOSED] ORDER TO STAY ACTION PENDING vs. 15 MEDIATION

VOCATUS, LLC, a Nevada Limited Liability 16 Company; SHAMOUN’S, LLC, a Nevada 17 Limited Liability Company; and DOES and ROE entities I – X, inclusive, 18 Defendants. 19

Pursuant to Local Rules (“LR”) IA 6-2 and LR 7-1, Defendants Vocatus, LLC and 20 21 Shamoun’s, LLC (collectively, “Defendants”) and Plaintiff Erin Allen (“Plaintiff”), by and through 22 undersigned counsel, hereby request and stipulate to stay the entire action in the above-captioned 23 matter pending mediation. 24 The purpose of the stay is to promote judicial economy and allow this court to more 25 effectively control the disposition of the cases on its docket with economy of time and effort for 26 itself, for counsel, and the litigants. See Landis v. N. Am. Co., 299 U.S. 248, 254 (U.S. 1936) 27 (“[T]he power to stay proceedings is incidental to the power inherent in every court to control the 28 disposition of the causes on its docket with economy of time and effort for itself, for counsel, and 1} for litigants.”); Pate v. DePay Orthopedics, Inc., 2012 WL 3532780, at * 2 (D. Nev. Aug. 14, 2} 2012) (“A trial court may, with propriety, find it is efficient for its own docket and the fairest 3} course for the parties to enter a stay of an action before it, pending resolution of independent 4 proceedings which bear upon the case.”), citing Leyva v. Certified Grocers of Cal., Ltd., 593 F.2d 5] 857, 863 (9th Cir. 1979). 6 Plaintiff filed a Motion for Settlement Conference (“Motion”) on October 26, 2021. (ECF 7 No. 18.) Defendants filed a Notice of Non-Opposition to Plaintiff's Motion on November 5, 2021. 8] (ECF No. 19.) The Court granted Plaintiff's Motion on November 8, 2021. (ECF No. 20.) A 9 || Settlement Conference is currently set for December 14, 2021. (ECF No. 21.) Should the parties 10 | be unsuccessful at resolving this matter, the parties shall meet and confer to prepare an updated 11] Discovery Plan and Scheduling Order to address the remaining limited discovery that needs to be 12] completed, dispositive motions, and pre-trial deadlines. : 13 This Stipulation is made in good faith and not for the purposes of undue burden or delay. 38 14] DATED this 10th day of November, 2021. DATED this 10th day of November, 2021. 5 15 HATFIELD & ASSOCIATES, LTD. OGLETREE, DEAKINS, NASH, SMOAK & STEWART, 16 P.C. 7 /s/ Trevor J. Hatfield /s/ Amy L. Howard 3 1g | Trevor J. Hatfield Suzanne L. Martin Nevada Bar No. 7373 Nevada Bar No. 8833 19 | 703 S. Eighth Street Amy L. Howard Las Vegas, NV 89101 Nevada Bar No. 13946 20 || Attorneys for Plaintiff Wells Fargo Tower, Suite 1500 3800 Howard Hughes Parkway 21 Las Vegas, NV 89169 09 Attorneys for Defendants 23 ORDER 24 IT IS SO ORDERED. 25 Ce 6 U.S. DISTRICT JUDGE November 12, 2021 DATE 28