Lucas v. MGM Resorts International

Opinion

1 LMAarWtin O LF.F WICeEls hO, FE HsqAuiYreE S & WELSCH 2 Nevada Attorney (NV Bar #8720) 199 North Arroyo Grand Boulevard 3 Suite 200 Henderson, NV 89074 4 mwelsch@lvlaw.com (702)509-7310 5 Fax (702) 434-3739 6 Counsel for Plaintiffs and the Putative Class 7 8 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 9 DISTRICT OF NEVADA 10 EBONI D. LUCAS, JEREMY GOARD, CHRISTOPHER MANLONGAT and 11 SHAWNDREA STAFFORD, individually and on behalf of all others similarly 12 situated, CIVIL ACTION NO. 2:20-cv-01750 13 Plaintiffs, v. 14 MGM RESORTS INTERNATIONAL, 15 THE INTERNAL COMPENSATION COMMITTEE OF MGM RESORTS 16 INTERNATIONAL, THE O PR END DER IN G GR UA NN IT TI EN DG SS TT AIP TU EL SA ST UE PD R EST MA EY ADMINISTRATIVE COMMITTEE OF COURT DECISION 17 MGM RESORTS INTERNATIONAL, and JOHN DOES 1-30 18 ECF NosE. C29F, N44o,. 5545, 55 Defendants. 19 20 Plaintiffs, Eboni D. Lucas, Jeremy Goard, Christopher Manlongat and Shawndrea Stafford 21 and Defendants MGM Resorts International and The Internal Compensation Committee of MGM 22 Resorts International, the Administrative Committee of MGM Resorts International have moved 23 the Court to stay and suspend all deadlines under the Joint Discovery Plan (ECF 38) pending a 24 decision from this court on Defendants’ Motion to Dismiss and the United States Supreme 25 Court in the case captioned Hughes v. Northwestern University, No. 19-1401, 141 S. Ct. 2882 26 (July 2, 2021) (the “Hughes Case”). After considering the Parties’ Stipulated Motion, [ECF 27 No. 55] the Motion is hereby GRANTED. 28 1 IT IS HEREBY ORDERED that this action is STAYED for all purposes pending the 2 | United States Supreme Court's decision in Hughes v. Northwestern University, No. 19-1401. 3 | Within 14 days of that ruling, the parties must meet and confer and submit a proposed 4 | Amended Joint Discovery Schedule to the Court that will include revised dates for an 5 | Amended Complaint, should Plaintiffs opt to amend, a revised deadline for a Motion to 6 | Dismiss, if necessary, and other revised scheduling dates. The parties must submit a joint motion 7 | to lift stay along with that proposed schedule. g IT IS FURTHER ORDERED that the Motion to Dismiss [ECF No. 29] is DENIED g | without prejudice to its prompt refiling after the stay is lifted, and the original motion to stay and 10 | request to supplement that motion [ECF Nos. 44, 54] are DENIED as moot. 11 6th BY THE COURT D ATED this day of January, 2022.

14 The Honorable Jennifer A Dorsey 15 United States District Court Judge 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28