Harbers v. Eddie Bauer LLC

• Court: District Court, W.D. Washington
• Decided: October 1, 2019
• Docket: 2:19-cv-01012
• Status: Unknown

Opinion

1 THE HONORABLE JAMES L.. ROBART 2 3 .

4 5 6 4 8 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 9 WESTERN DISTRICT OF WASHINGTON . 10 AT SEATTLE ll JENNIFER HARBERS, for Herself, as a Private Attorney No. 2:19-cv-01012-JLR 12 General, and/or On Behalf Of All - Others Similarly □□□□□□□□□□□□□□□□□□□□□□□□□□□□□□□□□□□□□□□□□ TT PULLED MOTTON ANY B FREPSSED| ORDER RESOLVING Plaintiff, DEFENDANT’S MOTION 14 TO STAY DISCOVERY (DKT. 32) . ¥, 15 EDDIE BAUER LLC, NOTE ON MOTION CALENDAR: 16 and DOES 1-20, inclusive, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 2019 7 Defendants. 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25. 26 27 28 . □ STIPULATED MOTION FOR ORDER HATTIS & LUKACS RESOLVING DEFENDANT'S 400 108" Avenue NE, Suite 500 MOTION TO STAY DISCOVERY - 1 Bellevue, WA 98004 la rnp ninin ay 425.233.8650 | FAX: 435.412.7171

1 . STIPULATION 2 WHEREAS, on July 23, 2019, this Court entered a Rule 16(b) And Rule 23(d)(2) 3|| Scheduling Order Regarding Class Certification Motion (Dkt. 24) which, among other things, 4}| set a deadline for Plaintiff Jennifer Harbers to complete discovery on class certification on or 5 || by November 24, 2019, and set a deadline for Plaintiff Harbers to file a motion for class 6|| certification on or by December 24, 2019; 7 WHEREAS, on July 3, 2019, Defendant Eddie Bauer, LLC (“Rddie Bauer”), filed its 8 i] Motion To Compel Arbitration Or, In The Alternative, Dismiss Plaintiff's Complaint (Dki. 13), a motion which has been fully briefed by the parties and which is pending; 10 WHEREAS, on September 16, 2019, Eddie Bauet filed and served its Motion To Stay 11 || Discovery (Dkt. 32), which asks the Court to stay discovery until the ruling upon Defendant's Metien-Fe-Compel-Arbitration-Or nthe Alternative, Dismiss Plaintiffs Complaint (kt □□□□□□□□□ 13 || on the grounds that district courts within the Ninth Circuit have held that a stay of discovery is 14]| appropriate while a plaintiff is challenging the Court’s jurisdiction (Motion To Stay Discovery, 15 || Dkt. 32, pp. 3:2-4:13); : 16 WHEREAS, after a review of the court decisions cited by Eddie Bauer and other legal 17|| authorities (¢.g., Mahamedi IP Law, LEP y, Paradice & Li, LLP, 2017 WL 2727874, *1 (N.D. 18]| Cal. Feb. 14, 2017) (collecting cases staying discovery until resolution of arbitration motion)), Plaintiff Harbers concludes that she does not have an objection to a limited stay of all discovery 20 || and that it would not be a good use of judicial resources for this Court to adjudicate Eddie Bauer’s Motion To Stay Discovery (Dkt. 32)—provided that Plaintiff's deadlines to complete class certification discovery and to file a motion for class certification are continued for a 23 || period of time equal to the period of the discovery stay; 24 NOW, THEREFORE, Plaintiff Jennifer Harbers (“Harbers”) and Defendant Eddie 25 Bauer, LLC (“Eddie Bauer”) hereby STIPULATE and AGREE as follows: 26 1. All discovery in this civil action should be suspended from the day of the

27\| Courts granting of this Stipulated Motion to and through the day of the Court’s entry of an order adjudicating Defendant’s Motion To Compel Arbitration Or, In The Alternative, Dismiss | □ RESOLVING DEFENDANT'S. st esa MOTION TO STAY DISCOVERY - 2 9g tere WA S800 Sy

Plaintiffs Complaint (the “Period of Stay”), with this stay of discovery being lifted upon this 2|| Court’s entry of an order adjudicating Defendant’s Motion To Compel Arbitration Or, In The Alternative, Dismiss Plaintiff's Complaint, 4 2. The deadlines of November 24, 2019 (to complete class certification discovery), 5 |] and December 24, 2019 (to file a motion for class certification), as stated in the Rule 16(b) And Rule 23(d)(2} Scheduling Order Regarding Class Certification Motion (Dkt. 24), should be 7|| amended and continued by the number of calendar days in the Period of Stay. 8 3, Phe-Conrtshenk-racate the □□□□□□□□□□□□□□□□□□□□□ Bauer’s Motion To Stay Discovery (Dkt. 32) 1S DENTED as moot. Ve 10 Wl DATE: September 23, 2019 .

Respectfully submitted, Respectfully submitted, 13 14 SEED IP Law Group LLP HATTIS & LUKACS 15 16 by: /s/ Mare C. Levy by: _4s/ Daniel M. Haitis 17 || Mare C. Levy, WSBA No. 19203 Daniel M. Hattis, WSBA 50428 Thomas A. Shewmake, WSBA No. 50765 Paul Karl Lukacs (admitted pro hac vice) 181701 Fifth Avenue, Suite 5400 - Che Corrington, WSBA No. 54241 19 || Seattle, WA 98104 400 108" Avenue NE, Suite 500 Telephone: 206-622-4900 Bellevue, WA 98004 . 20 || Facsimile: 206-682-603 1 Telephone: 425-233-8628 marcl@seedip.com Facsimile: 425-412-7171 21 |] tomshewmake@seedip.com che@hattislaw.com dan(@hattislaw.com 221 STEPTOE & JOHNSON LLP pkl@hattislaw.com 3 Stephanie A. Sheridan (admitted pro hac vice) Anthony J. Anscombe (admitted pro hac vice) Attorney for 94 || Meegan B. Brooks (admitted pro hac vice) Plaintiff Jennifer Harbers One Market Street and the Proposed Class 25 || Steuart Tower, Suite 1800 San Francisco, CA 94105 26 |! Telephone: 415-365-6700 Facsimile: 415-365-6699 27 . ssheridan@steptoe.com 28 || aanscombe@steptoe.com STIPULATED MOTION FOR ORDER HATTIS & LUKACS RESOLVING DEFENDANT’S 400 108" Avenue NE, Suite 500 MOTION TO STAY DISCOVERY - 3 Bellevue, WA 98004 a ee 425.233, 8650 | PAX: 425.412 □□□□

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2 Aitorneys for . 3 || Defendant Eddie Bauer, LLC 4 5 ORDER 6 IT IS SO ORDERED. 7 . 8 9 10 \\ Ocholee \ ) DATED: Septersber- , 2019 a An we AAR HON. JAMESIL. ROBART Fd pe tS Biittrict Court for the Western District of Washington 14 15 . 16 WF 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 □

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I CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE 2 The undersigned certifies under penalty of perjury under the laws of the State of Washington and the United States of America that on the 23 day of September, 2019, the document attached hereto was filed with the Clerk of the Court using the CM/ECF system which will send notification of such filing to all counsel of record in the matter.

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