Arzola v. Ortiz

• Court: District Court, D. Nevada
• Decided: January 12, 2022
• Docket: 3:21-cv-00367
• Status: Unknown

Opinion

1 Marquis Aurbach Coffing Brian R. Hardy, Esq. 2 Nevada Bar No. 10068 Susan E. Gillespie, Esq. 3 Nevada Bar No. 15227 10001 Park Run Drive 4 Las Vegas, Nevada 89145 Telephone: (702) 382-0711 5 Facsimile: (702) 382-5816 bhardy@maclaw.com 6 sgillespie@maclaw.com Attorneys for Defendants 7 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 8 DISTRICT OF NEVADA 9 RICHARD ARZOLA, Case Number: 10 3:21-cv-00367-MMD-WGC Plaintiff, 11 vs. STIPULATION AND ORDER TO 12 EXTEND DISCOVERY ELKO POLICE DEPARTMENT, BART 13 ORTIZ AND NATHANIEL BRADFORD, 14 Defendants. (FIRST REQUEST) 15 Pursuant to LR 6-1 and LR 26-4, Defendants Elko Police Department, Bart Ortiz and 16 Nathaniel Bradford (“Defendants”), by and through their attorneys of record, Marquis 17 Aurbach Coffing, and Plaintiff Richard Arzola (“Plaintiff”), by and through his attorney of 18 record, Shaun Rose Law LLC, hereby stipulate and request that this Court extend discovery 19 deadlines in the above-captioned matter sixty (60) days, up to and including July 13 2022. 20 In support of this stipulation and request, the parties state as follows: 21 I. PROCEDURAL HISTORY 22 1. On August 18, 2021, Plaintiff filed his Complaint. ECF No. 1. 23 2. On September 15, 2021, the Defendants filed their Answer to Plaintiff’s 24 Complaint. ECF No. 5. 25 3. On October 27, 2021, this Court entered the Discovery Plan and Scheduling 26 Order. ECF No. 8. 27 1 II. DISCOVERY COMPLETED TO DATE 2 1. The original parties participated in the FRCP 26 conference on October 27, 3 2021. 4 2. Defendants served their Initial Rule 26 Disclosures on November 24, 2021. 5 3. Plaintiff served his Initial Rule 26 Disclosures on November 24, 2021. 6 4. Plaintiff served his First Supplemental Disclosures on December 17, 2021. 7 5. Plaintiff served his Second Supplemental Disclosures on January 10, 2022. 8 III. WHY REMAINING DISCOVERY HAS NOT BEEN COMPLETED 9 The parties are actively conducting discovery. However, Defendants specifically 10 need additional time to retain and disclose their initial expert. For that reason and the 11 reasons explained below, the Parties will need additional time to propound written 12 discovery, respond to written discovery, and conduct depositions. 13 IV. REMAINING DISCOVERY 14 1. Plaintiff needs to take the depositions of the named Defendants. 15 2. Defendants need to take the deposition of the Plaintiff. 16 3. Both parties need to serve and answer written discovery. 17 4. Both parties need to disclose their experts. 18 5. Plaintiff needs to take the deposition of the Defendants’ expert(s), medical 19 expert(s) and rebuttal expert(s). 20 6. Defendants need to take the depositions of the Plaintiff’s expert(s), medical 21 expert(s), and rebuttal expert(s). 22 This section does not limit the parties’ ability to conduct other discovery. 23 V. EXTENSION OR MODIFICATION OF THE DISCOVERY PLAN AND SCHEDULING ORDER 24 LR 26-3 governs modifications of extensions of the Discovery Plan and Scheduling 25 Order. Pursuant to Local Rule 26-3, the Parties submit that good cause exists for the 26 extension requested. This is the first request for an extension of discovery deadlines in this 27 matter. The Parties acknowledge that, pursuant to Local Rule 26-3, any stipulation or motion 1 must be made no later than twenty-one (21) days before the expiration of the subject 2 deadline, and that a request made within 21 days must be supported by a showing of good 3 cause. While the majority of the deadlines the Parties seek to extend are outside of the 21- 4 day window, the deadline for initial expert disclosures is January 13, 2022. Thus, the Parties 5 must establish that good cause exists to extend this deadline. 6 The Parties have been conducting discovery in this matter. However, after a review 7 of the body cam footage in this matter and due to the complexity of the law surrounding 8 Plaintiff’s claims, it is necessary for the parties to retain an expert witness. Defendants have 9 been working to retain such expert but have been delayed and will be unable to meet the 10 current deadline. As the procedural history in this case illustrates, this is a fairly new matter 11 with initial disclosures being disclosed less than two months ago. Again, it was not until 12 after a review of the bodycam footage was it determined an expert would be necessary and 13 then the retention of an expert has been delayed slightly. The Parties together request this in 14 good faith and to further the resolution of this case on the merits, and not for any purpose of 15 delay. 16 The Parties thus respectfully request an extension of time to extend the discovery in 17 this matter to enable them to conduct necessary discovery in this matter and so that this 18 matter is fairly resolved on the merits. Assuming that the Court determines that the “good 19 cause” standard applies to all discovery deadlines sought to be extended by this Stipulation, 20 this Court noted that “Good cause to extend a discovery deadline exists ‘if it cannot 21 reasonably be met despite the diligence of the party seeking the extension.’” Derosa v. 22 Blood Sys., Inc., No. 2:13-cv-0137-JCM-NJK, 2013 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 108235, 2013 WL 23 3975764 at 1 (D. Nev. Aug. 1, 2013) (quoting Johnson v. Mammoth Recreations, Inc., 975 24 F.2d 604, 609 (9th Cir. 1992)). 25 The following is a list of the current discovery deadlines and the parties’ proposed 26 extended deadlines. 27 1 Scheduled Event Current Deadline Proposed Deadline

parties 3 | Initial Expert Disclosures | January 13, 2022 March 14, 2022 Pursuant to FRCP 26(a)(2 Rebuttal Expert Disclosures | February 14,2022 | April 14, 2022 Pursuant to FRCP 26(a)(2 5 Discovery Cut-Off March 14, 2022 May 13, 2022 6 April 13, 2022 June 13, 2022 7 | Joint Pre-Trial Order May 13, 2022 July 13, 2022 (if dispositive motions are filed the deadline for filing the 8 joint pre-trial order will be suspended until 30 days after a 9 decision on the dispositive motions 10 or further court order This request for extensions of time is not sought for any improper purpose or for © 12 purposes of delay. 5 13 WHEREFORE, the parties respectfully request that this court extend the discovery § © 1411 dates as outlined in accordance with the table above.

= 15 IT IS SO STIPULATED this 12" day of January, 2022. = 3 a 16 MARQUIS AURBACH COFFING SHAUN ROSE LAW LLC

18 By: s/Susan E. Gillespie By: ___s/Shaun M. Rose Susan E. Gillespie, Esq. Shaun M. Rose, Esq. 1 Nevada Bar No. 15227 Nevada Bar No. 13945 9 10001 Park Run Drive 9505 Hillwood Dr., Ste. 100 > Las Vegas, Nevada 89145 Las Vegas, NV 89134 0 Attorney(s) for Defendants Attorney for Plaintiff 21 7 ORDER 73 IT IS SO ORDERED January 12, 2022. 24 btu. CG. 25 United States Magistrate Judge 26 27 28 Page 4 of 4