Linksmart Wireless Technology, LLC v. Caesars Entertainment Corporation

Opinion

Patrick G. Byrne 2 Nevada Bar No. 7636 pbyrne@swlaw.com 3 Aleem A. Dhalla Nevada Bar No. 14188 4 adhalla@swlaw.com 3883 Howard Hughes Parkway, Suite 1100 5 Las Vegas, NV 89169 Telephone: 702.784.5200 6 FISH & RICHARDSON P.C. 7 Neil J. McNabnay (Admitted Pro Hac Vice) g menabnay @fr.com Ricardo J. Bonilla (Admitted Pro Hac Vice) 9g || rbonilla@fr.com Lance E. Wyatt, Jr. (Admitted Pro Hac Vice) 10 wyatt @fr.com Rodeen Talebi (Admitted Pro Hac Vice) 11 talebi@fr.com 2 1717 Main Street, Suite 5000 = Dallas, TX 75201 Zo 13 Telephone: 214.747.5070 Fax: 214.747.2091 14 15222 Attorneys for Defendants GOLDEN NUGGET, 2222 15 || LLC; LANDRY’S, LLC; LAS VEGAS SANDS 16 CORP.; and MGM RESORTS INTERNATIONAL

DISTRICT OF NEVADA 18 LLC, Case No. 2:18-cv-00862-MMD-NJK 20 Plaintiff, 21 V. CAESARS ENTERTAINMENT 22 CORPORATION, 3 Defendant. 24 25 LINKSMART WIRELESS TECHNOLOGY, LLC, 26 Plaintiff, Case No. 2:18-cv-00864-MMD-NJK 27 v. 28

1 GOLDEN NUGGET, INC. and LANDRY’S, INC., Defendants. 3 LINKSMART WIRELESS TECHNOLOGY, 4 LLC, Case No. 2:18-cv-00865-MMD-NJK 5 Plaintiff, 6 v. 7 LAS VEGAS SANDS CORP., 8 Defendant. 9 LINKSMART WIRELESS TECHNOLOGY, 10 LLC, Case No. 2:18-cv-00867-MMD-NJK 11 Plaintiff, 12 vy. | 5 3 13 || MGM RESORTS INTERNATIONAL, I 14 Defendant.

15 LINKSMART WIRELESS TECHNOLOGY, 16 LLC, Case No. 2:18-cv-00868-MMD-NJK “17 Plaintiff, 18 y. 19 WYNN LAS VEGAS LLC, 20 Defendant. 21 22 MGM RESORTS INTERNATIONAL’S UNOPPOSED MOTION FOR LEAVE TO FILE FIRST AMENDED ANSWER. AFFIRMATIVE DEFENSES, 23 AND COUNTERCLAIMS TO PLAINTIFE’S COMPLAINT 24 Defendant MGM Resorts International seeks leave pursuant to Rule 15(a)(2) of the Federal 25 Rules of Civil Procedure to file an amended answer, attached as Exhibit A. Specifically, MGM’s 26 proposed amended answer adds an additional affirmative defense based on the theory of intervening 27 rights. Linksmart has informed MGM that it does not oppose this motion. 28

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1 Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 15(a)(2) provides that once the time has passed to amend a 2 pleading as a matter of course, a party may amend its pleading “only with the opposing party’s 3 written consent or with the court’s leave,” and “[t]he court should freely give leave when justice so 4 requires.” FED. R. CIv. P. 15(a)(2). In this case, the Court has not yet set a deadline for amending 5 pleadings in the Scheduling Order. (See ECF No. 71.) Accordingly, the liberal policy of Rule 6 15(a)(2) applies to the instant unopposed motion. 7 Leave to amend a party’s pleading should be granted unless the opposing party can show 8 prejudice, bad faith, undue delay or futility. Foman vy. Davis, 371 U.S. 178, 182 (1962); see also 9 Abramson v. Gonzalez, 949 F.2d 1567, 1581 (11th Cir. 1992). Because none of these conditions 10 are present in this case, MGM respectfully requests that this Court grant it leave to amend its 11 answer. g 12 | ie 13 || ///

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1 Dated: February 21, 2020 Respectfully submitted, 2 3 By /s/ Aleem A. Dhalla Patrick G. Byrne 4 Nevada Bar No. 7636 pbyrne @swlaw.com 5 Aleem A. Dhalla 6 Nevada Bar No. 14188 adhalla@swlaw.com 7 3883 Howard Hughes Parkway, Suite 1100 Las Vegas, NV 89169 8 Tel. 702.784.5200 9 Fax. 702.784.5252

10 Neil J. McNabnay (Admitted Pro Hac Vice) menabnay @fr.com 11 Ricardo J. Bonilla (Admitted Pro Hac Vice) rbonilla@fr.com 8 12 Lance E. Wyatt, Jr. (Admitted Pro Hac Vice) wyatt @fr.com a2 13 Rodeen Talebi (Admitted Pro Hac Vice) 14 talebi@fr.com FISH & RICHARDSON P.C. 15 1717 Main Street, Suite 5000 Dallas, TX 75201 16 Tel. 214.747.5070 2 Fax. 214.747.2091 17 18 Attorneys for Defendants GOLDEN NUGGET, LLC; LANDRY’S, 19 LLC; LAS VEGAS SANDS CORP.; and MGM RESORTS INTERNATIONAL 20 22 Defendant MGM's unopposed motion for leave to file is GRANTED. Docket No. 117. Defendant shall promptly file and serve its amended pleading. 2A IT IS SO ORDERED. re oe UNITED STATES MAGISTRATE JUDGE 26 ~~) \, 27 DATED: _February 24, 2020 28