Martin v. Dominos Pizza

Opinion

1 FISHER & PHILLIPS LLP SCOTT M. MAHONEY, ESQ. 2 Nevada Bar No. 1099 300 S. Fourth Street 3 Suite 1500 4 Las Vegas, NV 89101 Telephone: (702) 252-3131 5 E-Mail Address: smahoney@fisherphillips.com Attorney for Defendant, Domino’s Pizza LLC. 6 7 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 8 DISTRICT OF NEVADA 9 JARELL SHABAZZ MARTIN, ) Case No: 2:22-cv-00784-GMN-DJA 10 ) Plaintiff, ) MOTION FOR EXEMPTION 11 ) FROM ENE PROGRAM vs. ) 12 ) DOMINOS PIZZA; ) 13 ) 14 Defendant. ) __________________________________ ) 15

16 Defendant, Domino’s Pizza LLC (named in the Complaint as “Dominos Pizza”), 17 hereby moves this Court, pursuant to the Order Scheduling Early Neutral Evaluation 18 (ECF No. 10) and LR 16-6(c), for an order exempting this case from the Early Neutral 19 Evaluation program. 20 This Motion is based on the records, pleadings and papers on file herein, 21 22 together with the following Memorandum of Points and Authorities. 23 /// 24 /// 25 /// 26 /// 27 1 MEMORANDUM OF POINTS AND AUTHORITIES 2 Pending before the Court is Defendant’s Motion to Compel Arbitration and Stay 3 or Dismiss Proceeding (ECF No. 9). Defendant does not want any participation in an ENE to be deemed a waiver of its right to proceed with arbitration.! ‘ Further, there are reasons to believe an ENE would be a futile waste of time and

7 |Tesources. Plaintiff has demanded $2,552,000 in damages” and displayed animosity g |toward Defendant and its representatives in the past, including recently objecting to a 9 |routine request for an extension of time in this litigation, which the Magistrate Judge 10 regarded as based on a “desire to get back at Defendant.” 11 For the reasons set forth above, Domino’s respectfully requests that this case be S 12 2 exempted from the ENE program and that the pending ENE be vacated. 23 13 B 3 Respectfully submitted, e244 a 15 FISHER & PHILLIPS, LLP 5 & 8 S 16 By:_/s/_ Scott M. Mahoney, Esq. 28 300 South Fourth Street 17 Suite 1500 Las Vegas, Nevada 89101 18 Attorneys for Defendant 19 0 ORDER IT IS ORDERED that ECF No. 11 is GRANTED. 21 IT IS FURTHER ORDERED that the pre-ENE Telephonic Conference set for 22 | 11/16/2022 and the ENE set for 11/17/2022 are VACATED. 2 3 vere ven eum ber 26, 2022 Birwlewen 24 □□□ 25 26 }|_—___ SSS ' See, Morgan v. Sundance, Inc., 142 S.Ct. 1708 (2022) (litigating a case and then seeking arbitration 27 | could constitute a waiver of the right to arbitrate regardless of prejudice to the other side). 2 See, Complaint for Employment Discrimination (ECF No. 1), § V, p. 6 of 6. 28 |? See, ECF No. 8, p. 2. -2-

1 CERTIFICATE OF ELECTRONIC SERVICE

2 This is to certify that on the 21st day of September 2022, the undersigned, an 3 employee of Fisher & Phillips LLP, electronically filed the foregoing Motion for 4 Exemption from ENE Program with the United States District Court, and a copy was 5 electronically transmitted from the court to the e-mail address on file and via U.S. 6 Postal Service for: 7 8 Jarell Shabazz Martin 5250 Stewart Ave. Apt. 1072 9 Las Vegas, NV 89110 jarelljupiter@yahoo.com 10 By: /s/ Sarah Griffin 11 An employee of Fisher & Phillips LLP 12

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