Moscato v. Comerica Bank

Opinion

Craig B. Friedberg, NSB #004606 Email: attcbf@cox.net 4760 South Pecos Road, Suite 103 Las Vegas, Nevada 89121 Telephone: (702) 435-7968 Evan S. Rothfarb, Admitted Pro Hac Vice Email: erothfarb@consumerprotection.net Daniel A. Schlanger, Admitted Pro Hac Vice Email: dschlanger@consumerprotection.net 80 Broad Street, Suite 3103 New York, New York 10004 Telephone: (212) 500-6114 Facsimile: (646) 612-7996 Counsel for Plaintiff David J. Moscato and the Putative Class [Additional Counsel Appear on Signature Block] UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT DAVID J. MOSCATO, on behalf of himself and all others similarly situated, NO. 2:23-cv-00993-JAD-DJA Plaintiff, STIPULATED MOTION TO AMEND DISCOVERY PLAN (ECF NO. 36) v. (FIRST REQUEST) COMERICA BANK, CONDUENT STATE & LOCAL SOLUTIONS, INC., and CONDUENT BUSINESS SERVICES, LLC, Defendants. The parties respectfully stipulate to, and jointly request the Court enter, the proposed Order below amending the current discovery plan and scheduling order (ECF No. 36). 1. Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 16(b) provides that a district court’s scheduling order may be modified upon a showing of “good cause.” Fed. R. Civ. P. 16(b)(4); see also Zivkovic v. S. Cal. Edison Co., 302 F.3d 1080, 1087 (9th Cir. 2002). Good cause exists to modify the schedule because the parties need additional to complete discovery before Plaintiff moves for class certification. 2. This is the parties’ first request for an extension of the case schedule. 3. The parties have worked diligently and cooperatively on discovery matters. The parties have completed significant written discovery but believe that they will need additional time to complete discovery, including depositions and expert work before class briefing class certification. They request a three-month extension of the current expert, discovery, and class certification deadlines. 4. Specifically, Plaintiff has served two sets of written discovery on Defendant Conduent State & Local Services (“Conduent”), and Conduent has served its first set of written discovery requests on Plaintiff. Conduent has begun producing documents responsive to Plaintiff’s requests and the parties are conferring in an effort to resolve disagreements about the scope of Conduent’s production. Plaintiff cannot take efficient depositions until those issues are resolved and Conduent’s production of both policy documents and data relating to cardholders who Plaintiff maintains may be members of the proposed class is complete. Plaintiff also anticipates retaining an expert to analyze Conduent’s data to identify potential class members. 5. In addition, the current plan sets a deadline for dispositive motions shortly after the due date for Plaintiff’s motion for class certification, which creates potential one-way intervention problems. See Schwarzschild v. Tse, 69 F.3d 293 (9th Cir. 1995). Under the existing schedule, if any class is certified, Plaintiff will not have sufficient time to provide notice and an opportunity for exclusion to the members of the certified class before dispositive motions are due. The result would be to effectively preclude Plaintiff from seeking summary judgment in the event a class is certified and preclude Conduent from obtaining a summary judgment ruling binding on absent class members. Accordingly, the parties request that dispositive motion deadline be extended by six months to allow time for notice in the event a class is certified. For these reasons, the parties have shown good cause for the Court to amend the case schedule as follows: Event Current Deadline Proposed Deadline Expert disclosures May 28, 2024 August 28, 2024 Rebuttal expert disclosures June 25, 2024 September 25, 2024 Discovery cutoff July 25, 2024 October 25, 2024 Class certification motion August 25, 2024 November 22, 2024 Dispositive motions September 23, 2024 March 21, 2025 Joint pretrial order October 23, 2024 April 21, 2025 STIPULATED TO AND DATED this 2nd day of May, 2024. TERRELL MARSHAL LAW GROUP PLLC BALLARD SPAHR LLP By: /s/ Blythe H. Chandler By: /s/ Jenny N. Perkins Beth E. Terrell, Pro Hac Vice Forthcoming Jenny N. Perkins, Admitted Pro Hac Vice Email: bterrell@terrellmarshall.com Email: perkinsj@ballardspahr.com Blythe H. Chandler, Admitted Pro Hac Vice Colin P. Kane, Admitted Pro Hac Vice Email: bchandler@terrellmarshall.com Email: kanec@ballardspahr.com 936 North 34th Street, Suite 300 1735 Market Street, 51st Floor Seattle, Washington 98103-8869 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19103 Telephone: (206) 816-6603 Telephone: (215) 864-8378 SCHLANGER LAW GROUP LLP Mitchell Turbenson, Admitted Pro Hac Vice Email: turbensonm@ballardspahr.com Evan S. Rothfarb, Admitted Pro Hac Vice 1 East Washington Street, Suite 2300 Email: erothfarb@consumerprotection.net Phoenix, Arizona 85004 Daniel A. Schlanger, Admitted Pro Hac Vice Email: dschlanger@consumerprotection.net Madeleine Coles, NSB #16216 80 Broad Street, Suite 1301 Email: colesm@ballardspahr.com New York, New York 10016 1980 Festival Plaza Drive, Suite 900 Telephone: (212) 500-6114 Las Vegas, Nevada 89135 Telephone: (702) 379-1157 LAW OFFICES OF HOLLAND & KNIGHT LLP CRAIG B. FRIEDBERG, ESQ. John C. Grugan, Admitted Pro Hac Vice Craig B. Friedberg, NSB #004606 Email: gruganj@ballardspahr.com Email: attcbf@cox.net 1650 Market Street, Suite 3300 4760 South Pecos Road, Suite 103 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19103 4) Las Vegas, Nevada 89121 Telephone 215.252.9610 Telephone: (702) 435-7968 Attorneys for Plaintiff and the Putative Class Attorneys for Defendants IT IS SO ORDERED: I □ 1] SA“Y IYO DANIEL J. ALBREGTS | UNITED STATES MAGISTRATE JUDGE DATED: May 3, 2024

STIPULATED MOTION TO AMEND DISCOVERY PLAN (ECF NO 26) (ETRS&T REOTIEST) _A

I, Blythe H. Chandler, hereby certify that on May 2, 2024, I electronically filed the foregoing with the Clerk of the Court using the CM/ECF system which will send notification to all registered CM/ECF users: Madeleine Coles, NSB #16216 Email: colesm@ballardspahr.com BALLARD SPAHR LLP 1980 Festival Plaza Drive, Suite 900 Las Vegas, Nevada 89135 Telephone: (702) 379-1157 John C. Grugan, Admitted Pro Hac Vice Email: gruganj@ballardspahr.com Jenny N. Perkins, Admitted Pro Hac Vice Email: perkinsj@ballardspahr.com Colin P. Kane, Admitted Pro Hac Vice Email: kanec@ballardspahr.com BALLARD SPAHR LLP 1735 Market Street, 51st Floor Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19103 Telephone: (215) 864-8378 Mitchell Turbenson, Admitted Pro Hac Vice Email: turbensonm@ballardspahr.com BALLARD SPAHR LLP 1 East Washington Street, Suite 2300 Phoenix, Arizona 85004 John C. Grugan, Admitted Pro Hac Vice Email: gruganj@ballardspahr.com 1650 Market Street, Suite 3300 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19103 Telephone 215.252.9610 Attorneys for Defendants DATED this 2nd day of May, 2024. By: /s/ Blythe H. Chandler Blythe H. Chandler, Admitted Pro Hac Vice