Greenberg v. Amazon.com Inc

• Court: District Court, W.D. Washington
• Decided: January 16, 2025
• Docket: 2:21-cv-00898
• Status: Unknown

Opinion

6 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 7 WESTERN DISTRICT OF WASHINGTON AT SEATTLE 8 ALVIN GREENBERG, MICHAEL NO. 2:21-CV-00898-RSL 9 STEINBERG, JULIE HANSON, CHRISTINA KING, and RONNELL STIPULATED MOTION AND 10 ROBERTSON, on behalf of themselves and ORDER RE STATE OF 11 all others similarly situated, WASHINGTON’S INTERVENTION AS PLAINTIFF 12 Plaintiffs, UNDER FED. R. CIV. P. 5.1 AND 28 U.S.C. § 2403(b) 13 and

14 STATE OF WASHINGTON,

15 Proposed Plaintiff- Intervenor, 16

17 v.

18 AMAZON.COM, INC., a Delaware corporation, 19 Defendant. 20 21 Pursuant to LCR 7(d)(1), the undersigned parties respectfully stipulate to Proposed 22 Plaintiff-Intervenor the State of Washington’s intervention in the above-captioned matter, and 23 the State of Washington respectfully requests that the Court grant intervention as a matter of 24 right. Such intervention shall be for the limited purpose of defending the constitutionality of the 25 26 1 Washington Consumer Protection Act (CPA), RCW 19.86, as interpreted by the Washington 2 Supreme Court in Greenberg, et al. v. Amazon.com, Inc., 3 Wash. 3d 434, 553 P.3d 626 (2024). 3 Defendant Amazon.com, Inc.’s Motion to Dismiss under Rule 12(b)(6) and Motion to 4 Strike Class Allegations under Rule 12(f) (Dkt. 73), among other things, challenges the 5 application of the CPA, as interpreted and applied by the Washington Supreme Court’s answer 6 to this Court’s certified questions to Plaintiffs’ allegations in this case. See Dkt. 73 at 13 n.10. 7 On November 21, 2024, Defendant Amazon.com, Inc. filed a notice of constitutional challenge. 8 Dkt. 77. 9 Pursuant to Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 5.1(c) and 28 U.S.C. § 2403(b), the State 10 “shall [be] permit[ted] . . . to intervene . . . on the question of constitutionality.” 11 28 U.S.C. § 2403(b). The parties are not requesting any alteration of dates previously set by the 12 Court, but request the Court enter the following stipulated briefing schedule regarding the State’s 13 substantive brief in opposition to Amazon’s Motion to Dismiss: 14  The State’s opposition brief shall be filed on or before January 29, 2025; 15  Replies by Plaintiffs and/or Amazon to the State’s brief, if any, shall be filed on 16 or before February 26, 2025. 17 IT IS SO STIPULATED, THROUGH COUNSEL OF RECORD. 18 DATED this 15th day of January, 2025. 19 NICHOLAS W. BROWN Attorney General 20

21 s/ Ben Brysacz BEN BRYSACZ, WSBA #54683 22 Assistant Attorney General 800 Fifth Avenue, Suite 2000 23 Seattle, WA 98104-3188 (206) 464-7744 24 Ben.Brysacz@atg.wa.gov 25 Attorneys for Proposed Plaintiff-Intervenor State of 26 Washington 1 HAGENS BERMAN SOBOL SHAPIRO LLP 2

/s Steve W. Berman (via email) 3 STEVE W. BERMAN, WSBA #12536 4 1301 Second Avenue, Suite 2000 Seattle, WA 98101 5 (206) 623-7292 steve@hbsslaw.com 6

7 BEN HARRINGTON (pro hac vice) BENJAMIN SIEGEL (pro hac vice) 8 John Michael Grant (pro hac vice forthcoming) 715 Hearst Avenue, Suite 300 9 Berkeley, CA 94710 (510) 725-3000 10 benh@hbsslaw.com 11 bens@hbsslaw.com john.grant@hbslaw.com 12 Attorneys for Plaintiffs and the Proposed Class 13

14 DAVIS WRIGHT TREMAINE LLP

15 s/ John Goldmark (via email) STEPHEN M. RUMMAGE, WSBA #11168 16 JOHN GOLDMARK, #40980 MARYANN T. ALMEIDA, WSBA #49086 17 NICK VALERA, WSBA #54220 18 CAITLYN G. COWAN, WSBA #62344 920 Fifth Avenue, Suite 3300 19 Seattle, WA 98104-1610 (206) 622-3150 20 steverummage@dwt.com johngoldmark@dwt.com 21 maryyannalmeida@dwt.com 22 nickvalera@dwt.com caitlyncowan@dwt.com 23 JOHN D. FREED (pro hac vice) 24 50 California St., Suite 2300 25 San Francisco, CA 94111 (415) 276-6500 26 jakefreed@dwt.com 1 CLEARY GOTTLIEB STEEN & HAMILTON LLP 2

RYAN SHORES (pro hac vice) 3 NOWELL D. BAMBERGER (pro hac vice) 4 2112 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW Washington, DC 20057 5 (202) 974-1500 rshores@cgsh.com 6 nbamberger@cgsh.com 7 JENNIFER KENNEDY PARK (pro hac vice) 8 MATTHEW YELOVICH (pro hac vice) 1841 Page Mill Road, Suite 250 9 Palo Alto, CA 94304 (650) 815-4100 10 jkpark@cgsh.com 11 myelovich@cgsh.com

12 CHARITY E. LEE (pro hac vice) One Liberty Plaza 13 New York, New York 10006 (212) 225-2000 14 charitylee@cgsh.com 15 Attorneys for Defendant Amazon.com, Inc. 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 1 PURSUANT TO STIPULATION, IT IS SO ORDERED. The Clerk of Court is directed 2 to renote defendant’s motion to dismiss (Dkt. # 73) on the Court’s calendar for February 26, 3 2025. 4 Dated this 16th day of January, 2025. 5

6 7 Robert S. Lasnik United States District Judge 8

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