Stanton v. Rainbow Cotton Candy LLC

• Court: District Court, D. Arizona
• Decided: November 6, 2020
• Docket: 2:19-cv-05719
• Status: Unknown

Opinion

1 WO 2 3 4 5 6 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 7 FOR THE DISTRICT OF ARIZONA 8

Tyler R. Stanton, ) No. CV-19-05719-PHX-SPL ) 9 ) 10 Plaintiff, ) ORDER vs. ) ) 11 ) Rainbow Cotton Candy LLC, ) 12 ) 13 Defendant. ) ) 14 ) 15 Before the Court is Defendant Rainbow Cotton Candy LLC’s Motion to Dismiss, 16 with Prejudice, for Violating Repeated Court Orders (Doc. 47), filed pursuant to Federal 17 Rules of Civil Procedure 16(b) and 37(b) on October 5, 2020. For the following reasons, 18 the Motion is granted. 19 The failure of Plaintiff to respond to the Motion to Dismiss may in the discretion of 20 the Court be deemed as consent to the granting of that Motion without further notice, and 21 judgment may be entered dismissing the complaint and action with prejudice pursuant to 22 LRCiv 7.2(i). See Brydges v. Lewis, 18 F.3d 651 (9th Cir. 1994) (per curiam). Here, 23 Plaintiff filed a Motion to Stay Judgment on Any Pending Motions (Doc. 48) as well as an 24 Addendum (Doc. 49) in which he stated he would need more time to file a substantive 25 response to Defendant’s Motion to Dismiss. (Doc. 49 at 1–2) The Court gave Plaintiff far 26 more time than is typical to file his response; Plaintiff had until November 4, 2020, which 27 was a day shy of a month after Defendant filed its Motion. Plaintiff has not met the 28 extended deadline provided by the Court and thus the Court takes his silence as consent to 1 | the granting of the Motion to Dismiss. 2 Regardless of Plaintiff's failure to submit a response, Defendant’s Motion is well taken by the Court and under the circumstances, Plaintiffs failure to cooperate with the 4| Court’s settlement conference order (Minute Entry 29) warrants the dismissal of the case. See Pitman v. Brinker Int’l, Inc., 216 F.R.D. 481, 484 (D. Ariz. 2003) (failure to comply 6 | with a settkement conference order warrants harsh sanctions imposed by district court). 7 Therefore, 8 IT IS ORDERED that Defendant’s Motion to Dismiss with Prejudice, for Violating Repeated Court Orders (Doc. 47) is granted and Plaintiff's Complaint (Doc. 1) is 10 | dismissed with prejudice. 11 IT IS FURTHER ORDERED that the Clerk of Court shall terminate this action. 12 Dated this 5th day of November, 2020. 13

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