Stanic Rasin v. Cigna Health and Life Insurance Company

Opinion

2 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 3 DISTRICT OF NEVADA 4 * * * 5 Irena Stanic Rasin, on her own behalf and Case No. 2:25-cv-00407-CDS-DJA 6 on behalf of all similarly situated individuals, 7 Order Plaintiff, 8 v. 9 Cigna Health and Life Insurance Company, 10 Defendant. 11 12 Before the Court is the parties’ stipulated discovery plan and scheduling order. (ECF No. 13 38). The Court grants the discovery plan in part and denies it in part. The parties seek to conduct 14 limited “phase 1” discovery prior to the Court’s decision regarding the Defendant’s motion to 15 dismiss. They seek to delay the remainder of their discovery and setting discovery deadlines until 16 after the Court decides the motion to dismiss. 17 Given the parties’ proposed discovery plan, it appears that they seek a limited stay of 18 discovery under Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 26(c). While the parties do not cite the good 19 cause standard for staying discovery, the Court finds that they have met it. See Gibson v. MGM 20 International, No. 2:23-cv-00140-MMD-DJA, 2023 WL 4455726 (D. Nev. July 11, 2023) 21 (outlining the “good cause” standard). The parties assert that this case is a complex class action 22 involving a health plan and so, they require a modified schedule. The Court will grant the parties’ 23 request for a partial stay of discovery. 24 However, the Court will deny the remainder of the parties’ proposed schedule because it 25 purports to set non-concrete deadlines. The Local Rules require that parties “state the calendar 26 date” for discovery deadlines. See LR 26-1(b). Instead of setting non-concrete deadlines, the 27 Court will require the parties to file a stipulated discovery plan within fourteen days of the 1 IT IS THEREFORE ORDERED that the parties’ stipulated discovery plan (ECF No. 2 38) is granted in part and denied in part. It is granted in part regarding the parties’ request that 3 the Court only permit the parties to engage in limited “phase 1” discovery until the Court decides 4 the Defendant’s motion to dismiss and to stay all other discovery and discovery deadlines. It is 5 denied in all other respects. 6 IT IS FURTHER ORDERED that the parties must file a renewed stipulated discovery 7 plan and scheduling order within fourteen days of the Court’s decision on the Defendant’s 8 motion to dismiss. 9 10 DATED: June 26, 2025 11 DANIEL J. ALBREGTS 12 UNITED STATES MAGISTRATE JUDGE 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27