Castillo v. Costco Wholesale Corporation

• Court: District Court, W.D. Washington
• Decided: February 18, 2025
• Docket: 2:23-cv-01548
• Status: Unknown

Opinion

7 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 8 FOR THE WESTERN DISTRICT OF WASHINGTON AT SEATTLE 9

10 JESUS CASTILLO, MARK KNOWLES, ALEX RODRIGUEZ, NICHOLAS JAMES 11 THROLSON, R.S., KIMBERLY SCOTT, ROBIN WARBEY, DANIEL SMITH, MATT NO. 2:23-cv-01548-JHC 12 GROVES, VERN DEOCHOA, TYRONE 13 WASHINGTON, individually, and on behalf of STIPULATION AND ORDER TO those similarly situated, STAY CASE SCHEDULE 14 Plaintiffs, 15 v. 16 COSTCO WHOLESALE CORPORATION, a 17 Washington corporation, 18 Defendant. 19 Plaintiffs Jesus Castillo, Mark Knowles, Alex Rodriguez, Nicholas James Throlson, 20 R.S., Kimberly Soctt, Robin Warbey, Daniel Smith, Matt Groves, Vern Deochoa, and Tyrone 21 Washington and Defendant Costco Wholesale Corporation (collectively, the “Parties”) request 22 that the Court stay the case to allow the Parties to mediate this case. 23 Courts have “broad discretion” to stay proceedings. Xirsi v. United States Dep’t of State, 24 No. 2:23-CV-00699-KKE, 2024 WL 756016, at *1 (W.D. Wash. Feb. 23, 2024) (quoting Clinton 25 v. Jones, 520 U.S. 681, 706 (1997)). “[T]he power to stay proceedings is incidental to the power 26 inherent in every court to control the disposition of the causes on its docket with economy of 1 time and effort for itself, for counsel, and for litigants.” Id. (quoting Landis v. N. Am. Co., 299 2 U.S. 248, 254 (1936)); see also Fed. R. Civ. P. 1. 3 With additional time, this case may be resolved without the need of further judicial 4 intervention, which would conserve the resources of the Parties and the Court by allowing the 5 Parties to focus on potential settlement discussions. The Parties have commenced discovery 6 and have agreed that if this Stipulation is granted that it shall also mutually stay the Parties’ 7 obligations to respond to outstanding discovery requests, but that the Parties shall cooperate in 8 good faith to provide information necessary for a productive mediation and potential resolution. 9 The Parties, therefore, respectfully request that the Court stay the case and vacate all pending 10 case deadlines until the Parties can complete mediation on May 28, 2025. The Parties propose 11 that they provide a joint update to the Court by June 6, 2025. 12 IT IS SO STIPULATED, THROUGH COUNSEL OF RECORD. 13 DATED: February 18, 2025 TOUSLEY BRAIN STEPHENS PLLC 14 By: s/ Kim D. Stephens, P.S. 15 Kim D. Stephens, P.S., WSBA #11984 16 Rebecca L. Solomon, WSBA #51520 1200 Fifth Avenue, Suite 1700 17 Seattle, WA 98101 Telephone: (206) 682-5600 18 Facsimile: (206) 682-2992 kstephens@tousley.com 19 rsolomon@tousley.com

20 ZIMMERMAN REED LLP

21 By: s/ Hart L. Robinovitch Hart L. Robinovitch (admitted pro hac vice) 22 Ryan J. Ellersick, WSBA # 43346 14648 North Scottsdale Road, Suite 130 23 Scottsdale, AZ 85254 Telephone: (480) 348-6400 24 hart.robinovitch@zimmreed.com ryan.ellersick@zimmreed.com 25 Interim Co-Lead Counsel

26 MILBERG COLEMAN BRYSON PHILLIPS GROSSMAN, PLLC 1 Gary M. Klinger (admitted pro hac vice) 2 227 W. Monroe Street, Suite 2100 Chicago, IL 60606 3 Telephone: (866) 252-0878 gklinger@milberg.com 4 Glen L. Abramson (admitted pro hac vice) 5 Alexandra M. Honeycutt (admitted pro hac vice) 6 800 S. Gay Street, Suite 1100 Knoxville, TN 37929 7 Telephone: (866) 252-0878 gabramson@milberg.com 8 ahoneycutt@milberg.com

9 BARRACK RODOS & BACINE Stephen R. Basser (admitted pro hac vice) 10 sbasser@barrack.com Samuel M. Ward (admitted pro hac vice) 11 sward@barrack.com 600 West Broadway, Suite 900 12 San Diego, CA 92101 Telephone: (619) 230-0800 13

LEVI & KORSINSKY, LLP 14 Mark S. Reich* Courtney Maccarone* 15 mreich@zlk.com cmaccarone@zlk.com 16 33 Whitehall Street, 17th Floor New York, NY 10004 17 Telephone: 212-363-7500 Fax: 212-363-7171 18

Plaintiff’s Steering Committee 19

Attorneys for Plaintiffs and the Putative 20 Class

21 DATED: February 18, 2025 HOLLAND & KNIGHT 22

By: s/ Kristin M. Asai 23 Kristin M. Asai, WSBA #49511 24 Kristin.Asai@hklaw.com 601 SW Second Avenue, Suite 1800 25 Portland, OR 97204 Telephone: 503.243.2300 26 By: s/ Ashley L. Shively 1 Ashley L. Shively By:_s/Rebecca G. Durham 2 Rebecca G. Durham Ashley.Shively@hklaw.com 3 Rebecca.Durham@hklaw.com 560 Mission Street, Suite 1900 4 San Francisco, CA 94105 5 Telephone: 415.743.6900 6 Counsel for Defendant Costco Wholesale Corporation 7 8 ORDER ? The Parties’ Stipulated Motion is GRANTED. Accordingly, the Court stays the 10 proceedings and vacates all pending case deadlines. The Parties are directed to provide a status 11 report to the Court no later than June 6, 2025.

13 IT IS SO ORDERED. 14 Dated this 18th day of February, 2025 15 16 cf ZL. Kk) (2 17 JORN H. CHUN UNITED STATES DISTRICT JUDGE 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26

STIPULATION AND ORDER TO STAY CASE SCHEDULE- 4 Case No: 2:23-cv-01548-JHC