Angulo v. Providence Health & Services Washington

Opinion

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3 4 5 6 7 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT WESTERN DISTRICT OF WASHINGTON 8 AT SEATTLE

9 10 CAROLINE ANGULO, et al., CASE NO. C22-0915JLR 11 Plaintiffs, ORDER v. 12 PROVIDENCE HEALTH AND 13 SERVICES - WASHINGTON, et al., 14 Defendants. 15 Before the court is Plaintiffs’ motion for reconsideration of the court’s August 9, 16 2024 order, in which the court denied Plaintiffs’ motion for class certification, granted 17 Defendant Providence Health and Services – Washington’s motion to strike class 18 allegations, and granted Plaintiffs leave to file a fourth amended complaint by no later 19 than August 30, 2024. (Mot. (Dkt. # 186); see 8/9/24 Order (Dkt. # 184).) Plaintiffs ask 20 the court to modify its order to (1) defer ruling on the motion for class certification rather 21 than deny it; (2) clarify that the court did not intend, by its order, to end equitable tolling 22 1 pursuant to American Pipe & Construction Company v. Utah, 414 U.S. 538 (1974); and 2 (3) “to the extent that Plaintiffs do not file a fourth amended complaint by August 30,

3 2024 . . . toll[] the statute of limitations under American Pipe until Thursday, October 31, 4 2024, to allow unnamed class members an opportunity to bring individual cases and 5 [order] that notice to those individuals be sent using the addresses prepared by JND Legal 6 Administration during the jurisdictional discovery process.” (Mot.; Prop. Order (Dkt. 7 # 186-1).) Plaintiffs “do not ask the [c]ourt to revisit the substantive merits of any 8 matters in which it has already ruled.” (Mot. at 2.)

9 The court ORDERS Defendants to respond to Plaintiffs’ motion for 10 reconsideration by no later than September 3, 2024. See Local Rules W.D. Wash. LCR 11 7(h)(3) (providing that “[n]o response to a motion for reconsideration shall be filed unless 12 requested by the court” and “[n]o motion for reconsideration will be granted without such 13 a request”). Defendants’ response shall not exceed 1,505 words in length. (See Mot. at 6

14 (certifying that Plaintiffs’ motion contains 1,505 words).) Plaintiffs may file an optional 15 reply by no later than September 9, 2024, that does not exceeed 750 words in length. 16 The Clerk is DIRECTED to renote Plaintiffs’ motion for reconsideration (Dkt. # 186) for 17 September 9, 2024. 18 Dated this 23rd day of August, 2024.

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