Beard v. Nevada Dept. of Corrections

• Court: District Court, D. Nevada
• Decided: May 22, 2025
• Docket: 2:23-cv-01060
• Status: Unknown

Opinion

1 || AARON D. FORD Attorney General 2 || JEFFREY D. WHIPPLE (Bar No. 16346) Deputy Attorney General 3 || State of Nevada Office of the Attorney General 4 || 1 State of Nevada Way, Ste. 100 Las Vegas, Nevada 89119 5 |! (702) 486-3792 (phone) (702) 486-3768 (fax) 6 || Email: jwhipple@ag.nv.gov 7 || Attorneys for Defendants Charles Daniels, Gabriela Najera, Brian Williams, and 8 || Karissa Currier 9g UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 10 DISTRICT OF NEVADA || MATHEW BEARD, | Case No. 2:23-cv-01060-GMN-NJK 12 Plaintiff, STIPULATION AND PROPOSED 13 v. ORDER TO EXTEND DISCOVERY AND DISPOSITIVE MOTION 14 || NEVADA DEPT. OF CORRECTIONS, et □□□ DEADLINE (SECOND REQUEST) 15 Defendants. 16 Plaintiff Mathew Beard (Beard), pro se, and Defendants Charles Daniels, Gabriela 17 || Najera, Brian Williams, and Karissa Currier, by and through counsel, Aaron D. Ford, 18 || Nevada Attorney General, and Jeffrey D. Whipple, Deputy Attorney General, of the State 19 Nevada, Office of the Attorney General, hereby respectfully submit the following 29 || Stipulation and Proposed Order to Extend Discovery Deadlines [Second Request}. 21 INTRODUCTION 22 This is a pro se offender civil rights action brought by Beard. On January 22, 2025, 93 ||this Court issued a scheduling order setting the close of discovery in this matter to □□□□□□ 94 |}22, 2025.! On April 10, 2025, this Court granted in part and denied in part Plaintiffs motion 25 ||to extend discovery, setting the discovery deadline to May 22. 2025. 26 27 1 ECF No. 22. 2 ECF No. 43.

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2 discovery disputes. During this meet and confer session, the parties agreed that additional 3 time was necessary for Defendants to supplement certain discovery responses, and for 4 Plaintiff to engage in further discovery based on those supplemented responses. Beard 5 expressed a desire to propound further discovery requests, and undersigned counsel 6 indicated Defendants’ indication to send a limited amount of written discovery as well. 7 II. LEGAL STANDARD 8 A motion or stipulation to extend any date set by the discovery plan, scheduling 9 order, or other order must, in addition to satisfying the requirements of LR IA 6-1, be 10 supported by a showing of good cause for the extension.3 A motion or stipulation to extend 11 a discovery deadline or to reopen discovery must include: (a) a statement specifying the 12 discovery completed; (b) a specific description of the discovery that remains to be completed; 13 (c) the reasons why the deadline was not satisfied or the remaining discovery was not 14 completed within the time limits set by the discovery plan; and (d) a proposed schedule for 15 completing all remaining discovery. 16 Generally, “good cause” is equated with diligence.4 A showing of good cause requires 17 more than inadvertence or mistake of counsel.5 18 A motion or stipulation to extend time must state the reasons for the extension 19 requested and must inform the court of all previous extensions of the subject deadline the 20 court granted.6 21 III. DISCOVERY COMPLETED 22 The parties have completed the following discovery: 23 • Plaintiff’s Request for Production of Documents [Set One] and Defendants 24 Responses; 25 3 Local Rules of Practice (LR) 26-3. 4 Masters v. Sam’s West, Inc., Case No. 2:24-cv-01959-RFB-MDC, 2025 WL 69934, at 26 *2 (D. Nev. Jan. 8, 2025) (citing Wright & Miller, Federal Practice and Procedure: Civil 3d § 1337); see also Johnson v. Mammoth Recreations, Inc., 975 F.2d 604, 609 (9th Cir. 1992)). 27 5 Masters, 2025 WL 69934, at *2 (citing Townsel v. Contra costa Cnty., Cal., 820 F.2d 319, 320 (9th Cir. 1987)). 28 6 LR IA 6-1. 1 e Defendants’ Initial Disclosures; 2 e Plaintiffs Initial Disclosures; 3 e Plaintiffs Interrogatories to All Defendants [Set One] and Defendants’ 4 Responses; 5 e Plaintiffs Requests for Production of Documents to All Defendants [Set One] 6 and Defendants’ Responses; e Plaintiffs Request for Admission to Defendant Najera [Set One] and 8 Defendant Najera’s Responses; DISCOVERY THAT REMAINS TO BE COMPLETED 10 The parties have agreed that the following discovery remains to be completed: 11 *« Defendants’ Supplemental Disclosures; 12 e Plaintiffs Interrogatories to All Defendants [Set Two]; 13 ¢ Plaintiff's Request for Production of Documents to All Defendants [Set Two]; 14 ¢ Plaintiff's Request for Admission to Defendant All Remaining Defendants [Set 15 One]; 16 ¢ Defendants’ Requests for Admission to Plaintiff: 17 e Defendants’ Interrogatories to Plaintiff. 18 e Possible Deposition of Defendants 19 REASONS THE REMAINING DISCOVERY WAS NOT PREVIOUSLY COMPLETED 21 The parties have been working diligently with one another to complete discovery, 22 |; however discovery disputes and unavoidable delay in responding to Plaintiffs written 23 || discovery have slowed the pace at which discovery has been able to proceed, 24 Disputes over the completeness of Defendants’ responses to Plaintiffs 25 ||Interrogatories have resulted in multiple discovery meet-and-confer sessions and 26 || Defendants have agreed to supplement their responses to certain of Plaintiffs requests and 27 || further investigate Plaintiffs claims that certain other responses are incomplete. 28

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1 It is the parties’ position that good cause exists, and that this Court should grant the 2 || request to extend discovery for 90 days from the date of this stipulation and extend other 3 scheduling deadlines accordingly. PROPOSED SCHEDULE FOR COMPLETING REMAINING DISCOVERY 5 The parties propose that discovery be extended for 90 days from the date of this 6 || stipulation, with the following deadlines: [| Previous Duane —[ Prpened Doing

10 11 The parties anticipate that, pending any unforeseen circumstances outside the 12 || parties’ control, the above extension of the current discovery deadlines should allow the 13 || parties to conduct and complete the outstanding discovery with respect to all Defendants. | 14 || VII. CONCLUSION 15 This second request to extend discovery is made by the parties in good faith and not 16 for the purpose of delay. For the reasons above, the parties believe there is good cause to 17 |! extend the discovery period in this matter. 18 || Wy 19 20 21 ii 22 23 24 25 {I 26 ’ In the event dispositive motions are filed, the proposed date for filing the joint 2g || Pretrial order will be suspended until thirty (80) days after a decision of the dispositive motions or until further order of the Court.

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1 Further, as a trial date would necessarily be set out some time from now, extending 2 discovery in this matter would allow the parties to expand the factual evidence of the 3 || allegations, ensuring both parties are prepared to either argue the case should be dismissed 4 || prior to trial or otherwise be prepared to try this matter in front of the Court anda jury. 5 6 ||DATED thisZl__ day of May, 2025. DATED this 16th day of May, 2025. 7 AARON D. FORD 8 Attorney General 9 0 / Z By: /s/ Jeffrey D. Whipple a eard JEFFREY D. WHIPPLE (Bar No. 16346) 11 || Plaintiff, pro se Deputy Attorney General 12 Attorneys for Defendants 13 In light of the lengthy extension being 14 granted, the Court is not inclined to extend these deadlines any further in 15 the future. ORDER 6 ITIS SO ORDERED. Jin A 17 UNITED STATE GISTRATE JUDGE DATE: May 22, 2025 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28

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