Fair v. King County

• Court: District Court, W.D. Washington
• Decided: February 27, 2024
• Docket: 2:21-cv-01706
• Status: Unknown

Opinion

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE WESTERN DISTRICT OF WASHINGTON AT SEATTLE 8 EMANUEL D. FAIR, NO. 21-cv-01706-JHC 9 Plaintiff, STIPULATED MOTION AND 10 ORDER TO EXTEND EXPERT V. DISCLOSURE DEADLINE 11 KING COUNTY, a political subdivision of the NOTING DATE: February 27, 2024 12 || State of Washington: et al., 13 Defendants. 14 Pursuant to Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 16(b)(4) and Local Civil Rule 16(b)(6), all 15 parties in this action jointly move the Court for entry of an order extending the expert disclosure 16 || deadline by two weeks as follows: " Proposed New Dat 18 Disclosure of expert testimony under FRCP March 4, 2024 March 18, 2024 26(a)(2 19 The Parties are in agreement that no other modifications to the case schedule are needed as 20 result of this proposed scheduling adjustment. 21 “The decision to modify a scheduling order is within the broad discretion of the district 22 court,” and the Court may do so on a showing of good cause. White v. Ethicon, Inc., No. C20- 23 ll osBHS, 2022 WL 596407, at *1 (W.D. Wash. Feb. 28, 2022): Fed. R. Civ. P. 16(b)(4): see also 24 STIPULATED MOTION AND ORDER TO EXTEND EXPERT 25 || DISCLOSURE DEADLINE - 1

1 LCR16(b)(6). Good cause exists where the “schedule . . . cannot reasonably be met despite the 2 diligence of the parties seeking the extension.” See Johnson v. Mammoth Recreations, Inc., 975 3 F.2d 604,609 (9th Cir. 1992) (citing Fed. R. Civ. P. 16 advisory committee’s notes (1983 4 amendment)). The rule is intended to “accomplish effective pretrial procedures and to avoid

5 wasting the time of the parties, counsel, and the court.” LCR 16(b)(4). 6 Here, good cause exists because although the Parties worked diligently to complete all 7 witness depositions ahead of the expert disclosure deadline, and those depositions have been 8 completed, the Parties and their experts are still waiting to receive some of the deposition 9 transcripts. Additionally, despite the Parties’ diligence communicating with each other regarding 10 remaining discovery requests, some documents have yet to be produced. These documents are 11 expected to arrive within the new proposed deadline in time for expert analysis. 12 In sum, good cause exists, no other deadlines need be adjusted, and this requested extension 13 will “accomplish effective pretrial procedures,” and ensure the efficiency of trial, which will, in 14 turn, “avoid wasting the time of the parties, counsel, and the court.” LCR 16(b)(4).

15 IT IS SO STIPULATED. 16 DATED this 27th day of February, 2024. 17 GALANDA BROADMAN, PLLC CHRISTIE LAW GROUP, PLLC

18 By:/s/Corinne Sebren By:/s/Salim D. Lewis Corinne Sebren, WSBA #58777 Salim D. Lewis, WSBA #52660 19 Ryan Dreveskracht, WSBA #42593 Robert L. Christie, WSBA #10895 Rachel Tobias, WSBA #34111 Attorneys for City of Redmond & Brian Coates 20 Attorneys for Plaintiff Emanuel Fair Email: bob@christielawgroup.com Email: ryan@galandabroadman.com salim@christielawgroup.com 21 corinne@galandabroadman.com rtobias@galandabroadman.com 22

24 1 LEESA MANION King County Prosecuting Attorney 2 By: /s/ Karissa Taylor 3 Carla B. Carlstrom, WSBA #27521 Karissa Taylor, WSBA #31563 4 Senior Deputy Prosecuting Attorneys Attorneys for Defendant King County 5 Email: carla.carlstrom@kingcounty.gov Karissa.taylor@kingcounty.gov 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 1 ORDER 2 PURSUANT to the Stipulation above, the Court hereby orders that the identified 3 || Disclosure of Expert Testimony under FRCP 26(a)(2) deadline be reset as agreed by the Parties, 4 sets the new deadline to March 18, 2024. 5 DATED this 27th day of February, 2024.

Chur C]ok A. John H. Chun 8 United States District Judge 9 10 1] 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 5 aune MADUINE 4 ORDER TO EXTEND EXPERT