Carl E. McQuillon v. Bank United of Texas FSB, et al.

• Court: District Court, D. Nevada
• Decided: February 10, 2026
• Docket: 2:25-cv-02484
• Status: Unknown

Opinion

2 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 3 DISTRICT OF NEVADA 4

5 CARL E. MCQUILLON, Case No. 2:25-cv-02484-JCM-NJK 6 Plaintiff, Order 7 v.

8 BANK UNITED OF TEXAS FSB, et al., 9 Defendants. 10 Pending before the Court is Defendants’ status report regarding discovery plan.1 Docket 11 No. 12. 12 The Court ordered the parties to file a joint discovery plan by February 9, 2026. Docket 13 No. 11. To date, the parties have failed to comply with the Court’s order. See Docket. In the 14 instant status report, Defendants request that this Court either (1) grant a stay of all discovery until 15 after the pending dispositive motions are decided, or (2) extend the deadline to confer with Plaintiff 16 and file a discovery plan or formal motion to stay discovery until February 23, 2026.2 Docket No. 17 12 at 2. Defendants submit that Plaintiff is appearing pro se and defense counsel has not yet 18 conferred with Plaintiff regarding the stay or any discovery plan in this case. Id. 19 As to the first request, “[t]he Federal Rules of Civil Procedure do not provide for automatic 20 or blanket stays of discovery when a potentially dispositive motion is pending.” Tradebay, LLC 21 v. eBay, Inc., 278 F.R.D. 597, 601 (D. Nev. 2011). Defendants improperly seek a stay of discovery 22 without addressing the relevant standards; therefore, the Court declines to order a stay of 23 discovery. As to the second request, Defendants improperly seek to extend the deadline to file a 24 joint discovery plan or motion to stay discovery; however, Defendants fail to provide reasons for 25 the extension requested beyond merely asserting that “defense counsel has not yet conferred with 26 1 LR IA 7-1 provides that “[a]ll communications with the court must be styled as a motion, 27 stipulation, or notice.” 28 2 Requests are properly made via stipulation or motion, not a status report. 1} Plaintiff.” Docket No. 12 at 2; see also LR IA 6-1 (“A motion or stipulation to extend time must 2|| state the reasons for the extension requested”). 3 Nonetheless, in the interest of resolving this case on its merits, and as a one-time courtesy to the parties, the Court will afford the parties an extension. The parties ace ORDERED to submit 5] a joint proposed discovery plan and scheduling order or a proper request to stay discovery pending 6] resolution of the motions to dismiss addressing the relevant standards, no later than February 16, 7| 2026. 8 IT IS SO ORDERED. 9 Dated: February 10, 2026

Nancy J. Koppe * 11 United States Magistrate Judge

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