City Boxing Club v. USA Boxing, Inc.

• Court: District Court, D. Nevada
• Decided: March 20, 2025
• Docket: 2:23-cv-00708
• Status: Unknown

Opinion

1 || Daniel R. Price (NV Bar No. 13564) Christopher Beckstrom (NV Bar No. 14031) 2 || Janice J. Parker (NV Bar No. 14102) Jasmin N. Stewart (NV Bar No. 16008) 3 || PRICE & BECKSTROM 1404 8. Jones Blvd. 4 ||Las Vegas, Nevada 89146 Phone: (702) 941-0503 5 || Fax: (702) 832-4026 info@pbnv.law 6 || Attorneys for Plaintiffs 7 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT DISTRICT OF NEVADA 8 CITY BOXING CLUB, et al., Case No.: 2:23-ev-00708-JAD-DJA = 9 Plaintiffs, + 10 < v. 11 Stipulation and Order to Extend USA BOXING, INC. dba USA BOXING, et | Discovery Plan and Related ca 12 al., Dates i ° + 13 Defendants. (Sixth Request) < 14 Plaintiffs, City Boxing Club, City Athletic Boxing LLC, and Armin Van Damme 15 (“Plaintiffs”), and Defendants, USA Boxing, Inc. dba USA Boxing, Scottsdale Insurance 16 Company, Nationwide Mutual Insurance Company, and K&K Insurance Group, Inc. 17 (“Defendants”) (collectively the “Parties”) hereby stipulate to and respectfully submit their 18 request that the Court enter this proposed Joint Stipulation and Order to Extend 19 Discovery Deadlines and Related Dates (Sixth Request) in the above-captioned litigation. 20 The Parties make this Stipulation pursuant to Local Rule IA 6-1 and Local Rule LR 26-3. 21 This is the Parties’ sixth request for an extension. The Parties respectfully request 22 that these deadlines be extended by seventy-five (75) days, as outlined in Section VI, infra. 23 I. Standard of Review

1 Parties seeking to extend discovery deadlines must provide the reasons for the 2 || extension and must inform the Court of all previously granted extensions. LR [A 6-1. A 3 || discovery extension also requires a showing of good cause. LR 26-3. “The ‘good cause’ 4 || inquiry focuses mostly on the movant’s diligence.” Victor v. Walmart, Inc., 2021 U.S. Dist.

5 LEXIS 163908 (slip copy Apr 8, 2021), at *41 (citing Johnson v. Mammoth Recreations,

G Inc., 975 F.2d 604, 609) (9th Cir. 1992).

7 II. Description of Discovery That Has been Completed

3 The Parties have diligently pursued discovery, and have completed the following:

z 9 1. On July 10, 2023, Defendants USA Boxing, Inc. and Michael McAtee served 10 their initial disclosures, though without attaching the documents identified in the < disclosure. 11 2. On July 31, 2023, Defendants Scottsdale Insurance Company, Nationwide

5 Mutual Insurance Company, K&K Insurance Group, Inc. served their initial disclosures, though without attaching the documents identified in the disclosure. 3. On July 31, 2023, Defendant Scottsdale Insurance Company served

interrogatories and requests for admissions upon Plaintiffs. 16 4, On August 2, 2023, Plaintiffs served their initial disclosures. M 5. On August 9, 2023, Plaintiff City Boxing Club served requests for admissions 18 and requests for production of documents upon Defendants USA Boxing, Inc., Scottsdale 19 Insurance Company, Nationwide Mutual Insurance Company, and K&K Insurance Group. 20 6. On August 18, 2023, Defendants Scottsdale Insurance Company, Nationwide 21 || Mutual Insurance Company, K&K Insurance Group, Inc. provided copies of the documents 22 || identified in their initial disclosures. 23

1 7. On August 18, 2023, Defendant Scottsdale Insurance Company served 2 |) requests for production of documents and a second set of interrogatories to Plaintiffs. 3 8. On August 18, 2022, Defendant Scottsdale Insurance Company served 4 || interrogatories to USA Boxing, Inc.

5 9. On August 18, 2022, Defendant Nationwide Mutual Insurance Company G served interrogatories to USA Boxing, Inc.

7 10. On August 30, 2023, Defendants USA Boxing, Inc. and Michael McAtee

3 served their first supplemental disclosures, with documents attached.

z 9 11. On September 8, 2023, Defendants USA Boxing, Inc. and Michael McAtee 5 10 served their second supplemental disclosures. < 12. On September 15, 2023, Defendant Nationwide Mutual Insurance Company served interrogators to City Boxing Club.

5 13. On September 18, 2023, Plaintiffs served their second supplemental 13 disclosures. 14 14. On October 6, 2023, Plaintiff City Boxing Club served interrogatories, request for admissions (set 2), and request for productions (set 2) to K&K Insurance Group. 16 15. On October 6, 2023, Plaintiff City Boxing Club served interrogatories, M request for admissions (set 2), and request for production (set 2) to USA Boxing Club. 18 16. On October 6, 2023, Plaintiff City Boxing Club served interrogatories, 19 request for admissions (set 2), and request for productions (set 2) to Scottsdale Insurance 20 Company. 21 17. On October 6, 2023, Plaintiff City Boxing Club served interrogatories, 22 || request for admissions (set 2), and request for productions (set 2) to Nationwide Mutual 23 || Insurance Company.

1 18. On October 26, 2023, Defendant Nationwide Mutual Insurance Company 2 |) served interrogatories (set 2) to City Boxing Club. 3 19. On October 30, 2023, Defendants USA Boxing, Inc. and Michael McAtee 4 || served their third supplemental disclosures.

5 20. On November 6, 20238, Plaintiff City Boxing Club served interrogatories, G requests for production (set 2), and requests for admissions (set 2) to Defendant

7 Nationwide Mutual Insurance Company.

3 21. On November 13, 2023, Defendant Scottsdale Insurance Company served

z 9 requests for admissions to Plaintiffs (set 2). 5 10 22. On November 15, 2023, Plaintiffs served their second supplemental < disclosures. 11 wv 23. On November 17, 2023, Plaintiffs served their third supplemental

5 disclosures. 13 x 24, On November 29, 2023, Defendants K&K Insurance Group, Inc. and Scottsdale Insurance Company served their first supplemental disclosures. 1 25. On November 29, 2023, Plaintiffs took the deposition of Mary Mullins, an 16 insurance adjuster with K&K Insurance Group, Inc. 26. On December 7, 2023, Plaintiffs took the deposition of Paula Creel, an 18 insurance adjuster with K&K Insurance Group, Inc. 19 27. On December 11, 2023, Plaintiffs took the deposition of Michael McAtee, the 20 || executive director of Defendant USA Boxing, in his individual capacity and as an FRCP 21 30(b)(6) designee. 22 28. On December 12, 2023, Defendant Nationwide Mutual Insurance Company 23 || served interrogatories (set 2) to Defendant USA Boxing.

1 29. On December 13, 2023, Plaintiffs took the deposition of Lynette Smith, the 2 ||membership director of Defendant USA Boxing. 3 30. On December 14, 2023, Defendant Scottsdale Insurance Company served 4 || vequests for production to USA Boxing. 5 31. On January 12, 2024, Plaintiff City Boxing Club served requests for

G production (set 3) on Defendant USA Boxing.

7 32. On January 12, 2024, Plaintiffs served their fourth supplemental disclosures.

3 33. On January 16, 2024, Plaintiffs served their fifth supplemental disclosures.

z 9 34, On January 17, 2024, Plaintiffs took the deposition of Plaintiff Armin Van 5 10 Damme, which deposition did not conclude on that date and the parties agreed to conclude < the deposition on a future date. 11 35. On February 2, 2024, Defendant Scottsdale Insurance Company notified the

5 other parties of its intent to serve a subpoena to USI Insurance Services, LLC for business records relating to this action, which subpoena was thereafter served. 36. On February 8, 2024, Defendants USA Boxing, Inc. and Michael McAtee

served their fourth supplemental disclosures. 16 37. On February 8, 2024, Defendants K&K Insurance Group, Inc. and Scottsdale Insurance Company served their second supplemental disclosures. 18 38. On February 9, 2024, the continued deposition of Plaintiff Armin Van 19 Damme, individually and as the FRCP 30(b)(6) designee of Plaintiff City Boxing Club was 20 |) concluded. 21 39. On February 13, 2024, Plaintiffs took the deposition of fact witness Jeremy 22 |! Holder, an employee of Defendant Scottsdale Insurance Company. 23

1 AO. On February 29, 2024, Defendants USA Boxing, Inc. and Michael McAtee 2 |) provided their fifth supplemental disclosures. 3 41. On February 29, 2024, Defendant USA Boxing, Inc. responded to requests 4 || for production (set 2) from Defendant Scottsdale Insurance Company. 5 42, On March 6, 2024, Defendant USA Boxing, Inc. responded to g || interrogatories from Defendant Nationwide Mutual Insurance Company. 7 43. On March 25, 2024, Defendant USA Boxing, Inc. responded to Plaintiff g || City Boxing Club’s interrogatories (set 2), requests for admissions (set 3), and requests = g || for production of documents (set 4) with documents/information still pending. 10 44, On March 25, 2024, Defendant Scottsdale Insurance Company responded 2 11 || to Plaintiff City Boxing Club’s interrogatories (set 2) and requests for production of 12 || documents (set 3).

- 13 45. On April 4, 2024, Defendant K&K Insurance Group responded to Plaintiff < 14 || City Boxing Club’s interrogatories (set 2) and requests for production of documents (set 15 || 3). 16 46. On April 11, 2024, Plaintiffs responded to Defendant Scottsdale Insurance 17 || Company’s interrogatories (set 2). 18 47. On April 17, 2024, Plaintiffs took the deposition of fact witness David 19 || Mansur, an employee of Scottsdale Insurance Company. 90 48. On April 26, 2024, Plaintiffs provided supplemental responses to 91 || Defendant Scottsdale Insurance Company’s requests for production of documents (set 22 || 2). 23

1 49. On October 7, 2024, Plaintiffs served their requests for admissions (83rd 2 || set) to Scottsdale Insurance Company, and responses thereto have been provided. 3 50. On October 7, 2024, Plaintiffs served their requests for production of 4 documents (4th set) and requests for admissions (8rd set) to K&K Insurance Group, 5 || Inc., and responses thereto have been provided. 6 51. On November 11, 2025, Scottsdale Insurance Company served their 7 || requests for production of documents (83rd set) to Plaintiffs, and responses and 8 || supplemental responses thereto have been provided. = 9 52. On December 20, 2024, Scottsdale Insurance Company filed a motion to 10 || compel Plaintiffs to disclose documents and pay sanctions, which was fully briefed and 11 then argued before the Magistrate Judge, who compelled the disclosure but did not 12 || order sanctions. - 18 53. On January 24, 2025, a stipulated protective order was entered regarding 14 || certain documents that the parties planned to disclose but sought to protect. 15 54. On January 24, 2025, Scottsdale Insurance Company and K&K Insurance 16 || Group, Inc. disclosed various documents pursuant to the protective order of the same 17 || date. 18 55. On January 29, 2025, Scottsdale Insurance Company served their 19 || interrogatories (3rd set) to Plaintiffs, and responses thereto have been provided. 20 56. On February 3, 2025, Plaintiffs and Defendants Scottsdale Insurance 21 || Company and K&K Insurance Group, Inc. respectively provided their initial expert 22 || disclosures. 23

1 57. On February 21, 2025, Plaintiffs served their sixth supplemental 2 || disclosures. 3 58. On February 21, 2025, Plaintiffs served their seventh supplemental 4 || disclosures. 5 59. On February 22, 2025, Plaintiffs served their interrogatories (3rd set) and g || requests for production of documents (4th set) to Scottsdale Insurance Company and 7 ||responses thereto are pending. 8 60. On February 22, 2025, Plaintiffs served their interrogatories (3rd set) and = 9 || requests for production of documents (5th set) to USA Boxing and responses thereto 10 || are pending. <= 11 61. On February 26, 2025, Plaintiffs served their requests to produce 12 || documents to K&K Insurance Group, Inc. (5th set) and to Scottsdale Insurance - 13 || Company (5th set), which have been withdrawn by Plaintiffs. < 14 62. On March 5, 2025, Plaintiffs and Defendants Scottsdale Insurance 15 || Company and K&K Insurance Group, Inc. respectively provided their rebuttal expert 16 || disclosures. 17 63. On March 14, 2025, third-party David Churchill produced documents in 18 || response to the subpoena that Defendant Scottsdale Insurance Company served back 19 ||in November 2024. 20 III. Description of Discovery Remaining 21 1. Depositions of disclosed witnesses, which have posed scheduling issues 99 || necessitating this extension. As of today, the following depositions are scheduled: 23

: 6 2. On March 5, 2025, Defendants Scottsdale Insurance Company and K&K 7 || Insurance Group advised all other counsel that they intend to take the depositions of 8 || David Churchill and Daniel Price as a result of the additional documents that = 9 || Plaintiffs disclosed on February 21, 2025. 10 3. On March 7, 2025, Scottsdale and K&K noticed the deposition of David 11 || Churchill to occur on March 26th. On that same day, Daniel Price notified Scottsdale 12 || and K&K that he objects to the taking of his deposition pursuant to Shelton v. Am. - 13 || Motors Corp., 805 F.2d 1323 (8th Cir. 1986). ~ 14 4. On March 10, 2025, Plaintiffs served Defendants Scottsdale Insurance 15 || Company and K&K Insurance Group each with notices to take their respective 16 || depositions pursuant to FRCP 30(b)(6). Those notices request testimony from each 17 || entity on 16 individual topics with 20 subtopics. 18 5. The Parties may wish to conduct follow-up written discovery, issue 19 || additional subpoenas, and/or conduct additional depositions depending on the 20 || information learned from the above-listed depositions. 21 22 23

1 IV. Reasons Why Discovery Will Not be Completed Within the Time 2 || Limit Set by The Original Discovery Plan 3 1. This is a complex dispute with multiple parties and multiple claims. The 4 || parties have diligently conducted discovery in this matter, including depositions, 5 mandatory disclosures and supplements thereto, and written discovery requests. Most 6 || recently the parties have disclosed initial and rebuttal expert witnesses and the parties 7 || are working together to schedule depositions of those witnesses as well as designees of 8 || Scottsdale Insurance Company and K&K Insurance Group, Inc. Because of the = 9 || multiparty nature of this action and scheduling conflicts including the schedules of the 10 || expert witnesses, completing the depositions before the close of discovery is impossible. 11 2. With respect to the deposition of Daniel Price that Scottsdale and K&K 12 || have requested, on March Mr. Price advised that he objects to his deposition - 13 || pursuant to Shelton v. Am. Motors Corp., 805 F.2d 1323 (8 Cir. 1986). As of the date 14 || of this stipulation, the parties have not yet completed their meet-and-confer obligations 15 || with respect to this issue. But all counsel intend to confer in good faith on this issue in 16 || an effort to avoid having to seek the Court’s intervention. 17 3. With respect to the deposition of David Churchill that Scottsdale and 18 || K&K have requested, on March 10th USA Boxing’s counsel notified all other counsel 19 || that he is not available on the date that Plaintiffs’ counsel and Scottsdale and K&K’s 20 || counsel had agreed upon for the deposition. As a result, the parties are still working to 21 |) schedule Mr. Churchill’s deposition for a date that works for all counsel, and it does not 22 || appear that we will be able to schedule that deposition prior to the existing April 4th 23 || discovery cutoff in light of the other depositions that are already scheduled.

1 4. On March 14, 2025, counsel for Scottsdale and K&K conferred with 2 || Plaintiffs’ counsel by phone to discuss each of the Rule 30(b)(6) deposition notices that 3 || Plaintiffs served on March 10. Scottsdale and K&K’s counsel advised that he needs to 4 ||confer with Plaintiffs’ counsel over the deposition topics set forth in each of the notices 5 that Scottsdale and K&K can identify the appropriate corporate designees to testify 6 ||on their behalf. Plaintiffs’ counsel agreed, and the parties have thus scheduled a 7 || meeting for March 20‘ to confer. Scottsdale and K&K’s counsel further advised 8 || Plaintiffs’ counsel that it is not practical for either entity to identify designees to testify = 9 |}on the numerous topics set forth in the deposition notices and schedule their respective 10 || depositions to take place prior to the existing April 4 deadline to complete discovery. 11 || Thus, the parties agreed to ask the Court for an extension of the discovery completion 12 || deadline to facilitate the necessary meet-and-confer efforts and the scheduling of the - 13 || Rule 30(b)(6) depositions that Plaintiffs have requested. 14 V. The Requested Extension Satisfies the Good Cause Standard 15 Good cause exists to grant the Parties’ requested extension of the discovery 16 || deadlines. As explained in Sections II and IV, supra, the Parties have not been idle and 17 || merely need time to accommodate schedules, including those of expert witnesses and 18 || Rule 30(b)(6) designees. Under the circumstances, the parties submit that there is good 19 || cause to grant an extension of the discovery schedule. 20 21 22 23

1 VI. Proposed Schedule for Completing All Remaining Discovery 2 The Parties propose the following deadlines: 3 Current Deadline Proposed Deadline A Initial Expert Disclosures February 3, 2025 5 Amend Pleadings and Add Parties June 7, 2024 6 Rebuttal Expert Disclosures March 5, 2025 7 Discovery Cutoff April 4, 2025 June 18, 2025.

z= 9 Joint Proposed Pretrial Order June 4, 2025 (or 30 August 18, 2025. © days after (or 30 days after 4 10 resolution of resolution of = dispositive motions) dispositive motions.

> Accordingly, the parties seek this sixth extension of the discovery deadlines, as

12 stated above. ° ~ 13 IT IS SO STIPULATED, THROUGH COUNSEL OF RECORD. 14 Dated: March 19, 2025. Dated: March 19, 2025. is oo, /s/ Daniel Price /s/Wing Wong (with permission) 16 Daniel R. Price, Esq. Wing Yan Wong, Esq. Christopher Beckstrom, Esq. Gordon Rees Scully Mansukhani, LLP 17 Janice Parker, Esq. 300 S. 4th Street, Suite 1550 Jasmin Stewart, Esq. Las Vegas, NV 89101 18 PRICE & BECKSTROM 1404 S. Jones Blvd. Stephen A. Hess, Esq. 19 Las Vegas, Nevada 89146 Law Office of Stephen A. Hess, P.C. Attorneys for Plaintiffs 111 South Tejon, Suite 102 20 Colorado Springs, CO. 80903 Attorneys for USA Boxing, Inc. 21 22 23

1 |) Dated: March 19, 2025. 2 || /s/Brian Pelanda (with permission) Christine M. Emanuelson, Esq. 3 || Nicole Hampton, Esq. Brian L. Pelanda, Esq. 4 || Law Office of Hines Hampton Pelanda LLP 5 || 400 South 4 Street Las Vegas, NV 89101 6 || Attorneys for Nationwide Mutual Insurance Company, Scottsdale 7 || Insurance Company, and K&K Insurance Group 8 = 9

— » 10 IT IS SO ORDERED. “11 \ A /)

vu pO 12 DANIEL J. ALBBREGTS 5 UNITED STATES MAGISTRATE JUDGE + 13 = DATED: 3/20/2025 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23