Collins v. C R Bard Incorporated

Opinion

1 ERIC W. SWANIS, ESQ. Nevada Bar No. 6840 2 GLENN F. MEIER, ESQ. 3 Nevada Bar No. 006059 GREENBERG TRAURIG, LLP 4 10845 Griffith Peak Drive, Suite 600 Las Vegas, Nevada 89135 5 Telephone: (702) 792-3773 6 Facsimile: (702) 792-9002 Email: swanise@gtlaw.com 7 meierg@gtlaw.com 8 CASEY SHPALL, ESQ.* 9 GREGORY R. TAN, ESQ.* *Admitted Pro Hac Vice 10 GREENBERG TRAURIG, LLP 11 1144 15th Street, Suite 3300 Denver, Colorado 80202 12 Telephone: (303) 572-6500 13 Email: shpallc@gtlaw.com tangr@gtlaw.com 14 Counsel for Defendants 15

16 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 17

FOR THE DISTRI CT OF NEVADA 18 PEGGY COLLINS, Case No. 2:19-cv-01864-RFB-BNW

19 Plaintiff, STIPULATION TO EXTEND DISCOVERY AND PRE-TRIAL 20 v. DEADLINES 21 (FIFTH REQUEST) C. R. BARD, INCORPORATED and BARD 22 PERIPHERAL VASCULAR, INCORPORATED,

23 Defendants. 24 25 Comes now, Defendants C. R. Bard, Inc. and Bard Peripheral Vascular, Inc. (“Bard” 26 or “Defendants”) and Plaintiff Peggy Collins (“Plaintiff”), by and through their undersigned 27 counsel of record, pursuant to LR IA 6-2, and hereby stipulate that the discovery deadlines 28 / / / 1 are extended by sixty (60) days as detailed below. This Stipulation is entered into as a result 2 of the Plaintiff’s expert, Dr. Gurvan Blackman, M.D., unavailability for deposition. 3 On July 1, 2021, Casey Shpall sent an email to Cameron Dean and Anisha Mathew 4 requesting available deposition dates for Dr. Blackman. On July 8, 2021, Ms. Shpall 5 followed-up with a voice mail to Anisha Mathew regarding available deposition dates for 6 Dr. Blackman. Ms. Shpall again followed-up with emails on July 19 and July 21, 2021, to 7 both Cameron Dean and Anisha Mathew, requesting available deposition dates for 8 Dr. Blackman. Despite Bard’s diligent effects to set the deposition of Dr. Blackman, his 9 unavailability makes it impossible to meet the current deadline of July 27, 2021 to depose 10 Plaintiff’s experts on their case-specific reports. Plaintiff’s counsel has reached out to 11 Dr. Blackman regarding the setting of this deposition but have not been able to secure dates 12 due to his involvement in his clinical practice and his role as an expert witness in other 13 litigation. His multiple roles as a clinician makes it difficult to set a deposition date prior to 14 the deadline and especially with the surge of patients brought on through the COVID-19 15 pandemic. 16 Pursuant to Federal Rules of Civil Procedure 6(b) and 26, and the Court’s inherent 17 authority and discretion to manage its own docket, this Court has the authority to grant the 18 requested extension. Fed. R. Civ. P. 6(b) (“When an act may or must be done within a 19 specified time the court may, for good cause, extend the time . . .”). Furthermore, Federal 20 Rule of Civil Procedure 26(c) and (d) vests the Court with authority to limit the scope of 21 discovery or control its sequence. Crawford-El v. Britton, 523 U.S. 574, 598 (1998) 22 (“Rule 26 vests the trial judge with broad discretion to tailor discovery narrowly and to dictate 23 the sequence of discovery.”). 24 / / / 25 / / / 26 / / / 27 / / / 28 / / / 1 This Court therefore has broad discretion to extend deadlines or stay proceedings as 2 incidental to its power to control its own docket. Bacon v. Reyes, 2013 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 3 143300, at *4 (D. Nev. Oct. 3, 2013) (citing, Munoz-Santana v. U.S. I.N.S., 742 F.2d 561, 4 562 (9th Cir. 1984)) (“Whether to grant a stay is within the discretion of the court”); Lockyer 5 v. Mirant Corp., 398 F.3d 1098, 1109 (9th Cir. 2005) (“A district court has discretionary 6 power to stay proceedings in its own court.”). The exercise of this discretion is particularly 7 appropriate where, as here, such action would promote judicial economy and efficiency. 8 Landis v. N. Am. Co., 299 U.S. 248, 254 (1936) (“[T]he power to stay proceedings is 9 incidental to the power inherent in every court to control the disposition of the causes on its 10 docket with economy of time and effort for itself, for counsel, and for litigants.”). 11 For the foregoing reasons, the Parties stipulate and request that this Court modify the 12 Stipulated Discovery Plan and Scheduling Order, Dkt. 44, as follows: 13 PROPOSED DATE DEADLINE 14 March 13, 2021 Close of case-specific fact discovery. 15 May 28, 2021 Parties shall produce case-specific expert reports. 16 June 28, 2021 Parties shall produce any case-specific rebuttal expert reports. 17 September 27, 2021 Deadline to depose Plaintiff’s experts on their case-specific 18 reports. October 19, 2021 Deadline to depose Defendants’ experts on their case-specific 19 reports. 20 December 7, 2021 Deadline to file Daubert motions and other dispositive motions. 21

22 / / / 23 / / / 24 / / / 25 / / / 26 / / / 27 / / / 28 / / / 1 IT IS SO STIPULATED. 2 Dated this 27" day of July 2021. 3 || MARTIN BAUGHMAN, PLLC GREENBERG TRAURIG, LLP 4 □ By: /s/ BewC. Martiw By: /s/ Eric W. Swaniy 5 BEN C. MARTIN, ESQ.* ERIC W. SWANIS, ESQ. 6 Admitted Pro Hac Vice swanise@gtlaw.com bmartin@martinbaughman.com GLENN F. MEIER, ESQ. 7 3710 Rawlins Street, Suite 1230 meierg@gtlaw.com Dallas, Texas 75219 Nevada Bar No. 006059 8 Telephone: (214) 761-6614 10845 Griffith Peak Drive, Ste. 600 9 Las Vegas, Nevada 89135 PETER C. WETHERALL, ESQ. 10 Nevada Bar No. 004414 CASEY SHPALL, ESQ.* pwetherall@wetherallgroup.com shpallc@gtlaw.com WETHERALL GROUP, LTD. GREGORY R. TAN, ESQ.* 12 9345 W. Sunset Road, Suite 100 tangr@gtlaw.com now Las Vegas, Nevada 89148 *Admitted Pro Hac Vice |S Telephone: (702) 838-8500 GREENBERG TRAURIG, LLP 14 1144 15" Street, Suite 3300 Counsel for Plaintiff Denver, Colorado 80202 15 16 Counsel for Defendants M ORDER 18 IT IS SO ORDERED. 19 Dated July 29, 2021. 20 51 Gx Lexy Are patna BRENDA WEKSLER 22 United States Magistrate Judge 23 24 25 26 27 28 ACTIVIE FONZNRAM4