P.M.W.A. Hair Stylist Inc. v. PMAW Hair Styling, Ltd.

• Court: District Court, S.D. New York
• Decided: November 30, 2023
• Docket: 1:23-cv-03449
• Status: Unknown

Opinion

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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK

P.M.W.A. HAIR STYLIST INC., Plaintiff, Vv. PMAW HAIR STYLING, LTD., ADRIAN H. Civil Action No. 1:23-cv-03449 - PKC WOOD, VIVIEN T. LEGUNN, LLC, and VIVIEN T. LEGUNN Defendants

PMAW HAIR STYLING, LTD. and ADRIAN H. WOOD, Counterclaim/Third-Party Plaintiffs, v. P.M.W.A. HAIR STYLIST INC.,, Counterclaim-Defendant, and WAI YEE ROONEY a/k/a SUSAN ROONEY, Third-Party Defendant

JOINT MOTION TO STAY PROCEEDINGS The parties, Plaintiff and Counterclaim Defendant P.M.W.A. Hair Stylist Inc. (“P.M.W.A.”), Third-Party Defendant Wai Yee Rooney a/k/a Susan Rooney (“Rooney”), Defendants and Counterclaim/Third-Party Plaintiffs PMAW Hair Styling Ltd. “PMAW”) and Adrian H. Wood (“Wood”), and Defendants Vivien T. Legunn, LLC and Vivien T. Legunn (collectively “Legunn Defendants”) (collectively the “Parties”), hereby respectfully jointly move this Court to stay this action in its entirety pending a final judgement in P.M. WA. Hair Stylist

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Inc., et al. v. PMAW Hair Styling, Lid, et al., Supreme Court New York County (Index Number 650915/2022) (“New York State Action”).

“The power to stay proceedings is incidental to the power inherent in every court to control the disposition of the causes on its own docket with economy of time and effort for itself, for counsel, and for litigants.” LaSala v. Needham & Co., Inc., 399 F. Supp. 2d 421, 427 (S.D.N.Y. 2005) (quoting Landis v. N. Am. Co., 299 US. 248, 254 (1936)). A stay is appropriate here not only to conserve the Parties’ and the Court’s time and resources, but also in order to further settlement. See, e.g., 13B Charles A. Wright, et al., Federal Practice & Procedure 3533.2 (2009); In re Parmalat Sec. Litig., No. 04-md-1653 (S.D.N.Y. Nov. 22, 2006).

The Parties have been engaged in settlement discussions. The Parties have met with the appointed mediator, Daniel Kolb, on numerous occasions since August 2023 and are actively working to reach a global settlement without the necessity of continued litigation. In the event the Parties are unable to reach a global settlement, the Parties currently believe that their resources, as well as judicial resources, are best spent on resolving the dispute in the New York State Action. In the event that circumstances change, the Parties reserve the right to move to the

Court to lift the stay. In the event the Court declines the Parties’ joint request to stay the case, the Parties respectfully move this Court to for a sixty (60) day extension of fact discovery and all subsequent deadlines to give the Parties sufficient time to take depositions, resolve outstanding discovery issues and complete discovery.

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‘Lori L, Cooper/ ‘Tatyana Voloshchuk/ Yuval H. Marcus (YM 5348) Tatyana Voloshchuk (TV0131) Lori L. Cooper (LC 1016} Michael Cornman (MC7134) LEASON ELLIS LLP ST. ONGE STEWARD JOHNSTON & One Barker Avenue, Fifth Floor REENS LLC White Plains, New York 10601 986 Bedford Street Phone: (914) 821-9075 Stamford, CT 06905 Email: marcus@leasonellis.com Phone: (203) 324-6155 cooper@leasonellis.com Email: tvoloshchuk@ssjr.com lelitdocketing@!easonellis.com meornman@ssjr.com litigation@ssjr.com Attorneys for Plaintiff and Third-Party Defendant P.M.W.A. Hair Stylist Inc. and Attorneys for Defendants and Wai Yee Rooney a/k/a Susan Rooney Counterclaim/Third-Party Plaintiffs PMAW Hair Styling, Ltd. and Adrian H. Wood Dated: November 14, 2023 Dated: November 14, 2023

/Robert H. Rosh/ Robert H. Rosh (RR6101) McCARTHY FINGAR LLP 711 Westchester Ave., Ste. 405 White Plains, NY 10604 Phone: (914) 946-3700 he. sel ye Lary) Email: rrosh@mecarthyfingar.com Attorneys for Defendants MM, fick, Ao 2 F Vivien T. LeGunn, LLC and Vivien T. LeGunn Porler atid eyed orl poe □□ November 14, 2023 Lot F Eb Docater i, J0O2 5 Cafe 4 ft 2 So Ordered: POL, /

P. Kevin Castel United States District Judge Dated: New York, New York November ZO 2023

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CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE I hereby certify that a true and correct copy of the foregoing document was filed electronically with the Clerk of Court using the CM/ECF system, which will automatically serve and send electronic notification of such filing to all counsel of record.

/Tatyana Voloshchuk/ Dated: November 14, 2023 Tatyana Voloshchuk