Thomson v. Russell Investment Management LLC

Opinion

D.Matthew Moscon (admitted pro hac vice) Malori McGill Fery (admitted pro hac vice) 201 South Main Street, Suite 1100 Salt Lake City, UT 84111 Telephone: (801) 907-2703 mmoscon@mayerbrown.com mmcgillfery@mayerbrown.com Nancy G. Ross (admitted pro hac vice) 71 South Wacker Drive Chicago, IL 60606 Telephone: (312) 782-0600 nross@mayerbrown.com Alex C. Lakatos (admitted pro hac vice) MAYER BROWN LLP 1999 K Street N.W. Washington, DC 20006-1101 Telephone: (202) 263-3000 alakatos@mayerbrown.com Patrick H. Hicks, Esq. Bar. No. 004632 Diana G. Dickinson, Esq. Bar No. 13477 3960 Howard Hughes Parkway, Suite 300 Las Vegas, NV 89169-5937 Telephone: (702) 862-8800 phicks@littler.com ddickinson@littler.com Attorneys for Defendants Caesars Holdings, Inc., the Plan Investment Committee, and the 401(k) Plan Committee DISTRICT OF NEVADA Danny Wanek,Juan Duarte, and Rick Case No. 2:21-cv-00961-CDS-BNW Ruberton, as representatives of a class of similarly situated persons, on behalf of the STIPULATION REGARDING Caesars Entertainment Corporation Savings DEADLINE FOR SUMMARY & Retirement Plan, JUDGMENT MOTIONS Plaintiffs, (SECOND REQUEST REGARDING v. SUBJECT DEADLINE) Russell Investments Trust Company, Caesars Holding, Inc., the Plan Investment Committee, and the 401(k) Plan Committee, WHEREAS, the Court issued the original Scheduling Order in this case on October 12, 2021 (ECF No. 63), which listed placeholder dates to be adjusted based on the timing of the Court’s decision on Defendants’ then-pending Motions to Dismiss; WHEREAS, the Court issued an Amended Scheduling Order on April 20, 2023 (ECF No. 115)listing specific dates for each deadline; WHEREAS, on December 29, 2023, the parties jointly requested (ECF No. 149) that the Court extend the deadlines due to voluminous document productions and to allow additional time to coordinate the schedules of the multiple parties required to conduct numerous fact witness depositions; WHEREAS, the Court granted the parties’ request on January 2, 2024 (ECF No. 150) and entered an Amended Scheduling Order; WHEREAS, on August 16, 2024, the parties filed (ECF No. 189) a stipulated request to extend the deadline for expert discovery from September 6, 2024 to September 27, 2024 to allow additional time to coordinate the schedules of the multiple parties required to conduct the depositions of six expert witnesses; WHEREAS, the Court granted the parties’ stipulation to extend the expert discovery deadline on August 20, 2024 (ECF No. 190); WHEREAS, the current deadline for any party to file a motion for summary judgment is September 16, 2024, which falls approximately two weeks before the deadline for expert discovery; WHEREAS, when an existing motion deadline “cannot reasonably be met despite the [parties’] diligence,” good cause exists to extend the deadline, Johnson v. Mammoth Recs., Inc., 975 F.2d 604, 609 (9th Cir. 1992), and “[t]he proper procedure, when additional time for any purpose is needed is to present the Court a timely request for an extension before the time fixed has expired,” Kinford v. Moyle, 2021 WL 3021150, at *2 (D. Nev. July 15, 2021) (quoting Canup v.Miss. Valley Barge Line Co., 31 F.R.D. 282, 283 (D. Pa. 1962)). -1- WHEREAS, the parties timely request an extension on the deadline to file motions for summary judgment to allow adequate time to prepare such motions upon concluding expert discovery and to conduct such matters as obtaining the transcripts of all expert depositions, analyzing those transcripts, and adequately preparing their statement(s) of genuinely undisputed materials facts and accompanying motion(s) with the benefit of expert discovery; WHEREAS, although the current scheduling order does not set deadlines for a party’s response or reply to a motion for summary judgment, the parties also respectfully request an extension on the deadlines to file responses and replies to any motion for summary judgment beyond those established by Local Rule 7-2(b) to account for the substantial amount of fact and expert discovery that will affect such responses and replies; WHEREAS, there is good cause to reasonably extend the deadline to file motions for summary judgment and the deadlines to file responses and replies to any motion for summary judgment and this request is not the result of unnecessary delay or a lack of diligence by any party; and WHEREAS, this is the second request for an extension of time affecting the deadline for motions for summary judgment and the first request for an extension of time affecting the deadlines for responses and replies to motions for summary judgment; IT IS HEREBY STIPULATED AND AGREED, pursuant to Local Rules IA 6-1 and 26- 3 and subject to the approval of the Court, that the briefing schedule for summary judgment be extended as follows: Event Existing Date Proposed Date Deadline to file motions for September 16, 2024 November 22, 2024 summary judgment Deadline to file responses to October 7, 2024 December 20, 2024 motions for summary judgment Deadline to file replies to October 21, 2024 January 17, 2025 motions for summary judgment -2- Dated: August 27, 2024 /s/ D. Matthew Moscon Nancy G. Ross (admitted pro hac vice) 71 South Wacker Drive Chicago, IL 60606 Telephone: (312) 782-0600 nross@mayerbrown.com D.Matthew Moscon (admitted pro hac vice) Malori McGill Fery (admitted pro hac vice) 201 S. Main Street, Suite 1100 Salt Lake City, UT 84111 Telephone: (801) 907-2703 mmoscon@mayerbrown.com mmcgillfery@mayerbrown.com Alex C. Lakatos (admitted pro hac vice) 1999 K Street N.W. Washington, DC 20006-1101 Telephone: (202) 263-3000 alakatos@mayerbrown.com LITTLER MENDELSON P.C. Patrick H. Hicks, Esq. Bar. No. 004632 Diana G. Dickinson, Esq. Bar No. 13477 3960 Howard Hughes Parkway, Suite 300 Las Vegas, Nevada 89169-5937 Telephone: (702) 862-8800 phicks@littler.com ddickinson@littler.com Attorneys for Defendants Caesars Holdings, Inc., the Plan Investment Committee, and the 401(k) Plan Committee /s/ Robert C. Hora Sean M. Murphy, Esq. (admitted pro hac vice) Robert C. Hora, Esq. (admittedpro hac vice) 55 Hudson Yards, 34th Floor New York, NY 10001-2163 Telephone: (212) 530-5000 smurphy@milbank.com rhora@milbank.com -3- Rew R. Goodenow, Esq., NSBN 3722 Michael R. Kealy, Esq., NSBN 971 50 West Liberty Street, Suite 750 Reno, NV 89501 Telephone: (775) 323-1601 rgoodenow @ parsonsbehle.com mkealy @ parsonsbehle.com Attorneys for Defendant Russell Investments Trust Company /s/_ Benjamin J. Bauer NICHOLS KASTER, PLLP Paul J. Lukas, Esq. (admitted pro hac vice) Brock J. Specht, Esq. (admitted pro hac vice) Benjamin J. Bauer, Esq. (admitted pro hac vice) ll 4700 IDS Center 80S. 8th Street Minneapolis, MN 55402 Telephone: (612) 256-3200 PAUL PADDA LAW, PLLC Paul S. Padda, Esq. 4560 South Decatur Blvd., Suite 300 Las Vegas, NV 89103 Telephone: (702) 366-1888 Attorneys for Plaintiffs 91 DATED: _8/29/2024 IT IS SO ORDERED. pa a8 fn ITED STATES DISTRICT JUDGE UNITED STATES MAGISTRATE JUDGE “+ STIPULATION REGARDING DEADLINE FOR SUMMARY JUDGMENT MOTION, Ss