Yaghyazarian v. Progressive Direct Insurance Company

District Court, D. Nevada

Yaghyazarian v. Progressive Direct Insurance Company

Trial Court Opinion

1 || Gustavo Ponce, Esq Nevada Bar No. 15084 2 || Mona Amini, Esq. Nevada Bar No. 15381 3 | KAZEROUNI LAW GROUP, APC 6069 South Fort Apache Road, Suite 100 4 ||Las Vegas, Nevada 89148 Telephone: (800) 400-6808 5 | Facsimile: (800) 520-5523 E-mail: [email protected] 6 || E-mail: [email protected] 7 || Scott Edelsberg, Esq. (pro hac vice) Florida Bar No. 0100537 8 Christopher Gold, Esq. (pro hac vice) Florida Bar No. 088733 9 | EDELSBERG LAW, P.A. 20900 NE 30th Ave. 10 || Suite 417 Aventura, FL 33180 U 786-673-2405 a [email protected] < |\[email protected] 2 13 || Attorneys for Plaintiffs and the Putative Class 14 O UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT = 15 FOR THE DISTRICT OF NEVADA

— GARY YAGHYAZARIAN and ELENA Case No.: 2:22-cv-01339-CDS-VCF THORMAHLEN, individually and on 17 || behalf of all others similarly situated, 18 Plaintiffs, JOINT STIPULATION FOR EXTENSION OF TIME FOR CLAS 19 vs. CERTIFICATION BRIEFING 20 || PROGRESSIVE DIRECT INSURANCE COMPANY and PROGRESSIVE MANAGEMENT ORDER 21 | NORTHERN INSURANCE COMPANY, Ohio corporations, Defendants. 23 24 25 26 27 28 -l- TOINTT CTIPTIT ATION BOR EY TENCTION OF TIME FOR CT ACS TIBICA TION

1 Plaintiffs Gary Yaghyazarian and Elena Thormahlen and Defendants Progressive Direct Insurance Company and Progressive Northern Insurance Company

4 [Jointly move to modify the Amended Case Management Order entered by this Court 5 on June 16, 2023 [D.E. 62], and state as follows: 1. District courts have inherent power to control their own dockets.

g || Hamilton Copper & Stell Corp. v. Primary Steel, Inc.,

898 F.2d 1428, 1429

(9th Cir. 1990). 2. This case is one of 35 related class actions Progressive and its affiliates 12 || challenging the calculation of the Projected Sold Adjustment (“PSA”) in valuing = 13 || total-loss claims (the “PSA Cases”). King & Spalding LLP represents the defendants © in all the PSA Cases, and Shamis & Gentile P.A., Edelsberg Law P.A., Normand 16 || PLLC, and Carney Bates & Pulliam represent nearly all plaintiffs in the PSA Cases. 17 3. On June 16, 2023, this Court granted the Parties’ Motion to Amend the Case Management Order to allow sufficient time for the voluminous and time-

9 || intensive document production of a sample of 150 claim files Plaintiffs requested 211! from Defendants and to conduct depositions. The Amended Case Management Order extended, inter alia, the deadline for Plaintiffs’ to file their Motion for Class

24 || Certification and serve their Expert Disclosures to December 7, 2023. /d. 25 4. The Parties have been diligently working to meet the deadlines transcribed in the Amended Case Management Order, however, Plaintiffs’ require 28 -2- TOINTT CTIPTIT ATION BOR EY TENCTION OF TIME FOR CT ACS TIBICA TION

1 | additional time to review and analyze the 150 sample claim files Defendants produced, confer with experts, and to file their Motion for Class Certification.

4 5. By this Motion, the Parties respectfully seek a 55-day extension of the 5 || deadline for Plaintiffs’ to file their Motion for Class Certification and serve their Expert Disclosures.

8 6. Accordingly, to allow the same amount of time as the Case Management 9|| order allotted, the Parties also respectfully request a 55-day extension to the other " deadlines below. 11 2 7. Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 6(b) permits a court to grant an = 13 | extension of time for good cause and, “like all the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, ‘[is] to be liberally construed to effectuate the general purpose of seeing that cases 16 || are tried on the merits.” Ahanchian v. Xenon Pictures, Inc.,

624 F.3d 1254

, 1258-59 7 (9th Cir. 2010) (quoting Rodgers v. Watt,

722 F.2d 456, 459

(9th Cir. 1983)). Consequently, requests for extensions of time made before the applicable deadline

9 || has passed should ‘normally ... be granted in the absence of bad faith on the part of 21)! the party seeking relief or prejudice to the adverse party.” Jd. (quoting 4B Charles Alan Wright & Arthur R. Miller, Federal Practice and Procedure § 1165 (3d ed.

24 || 2004)). 25 8. Further, “Plaintiff[s’] request for an extension of less than two months ...1s reasonable.” Godinez v. L. Offs. of Clark Garen, No.

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SACV1600828CJCDFMX,

2016 WL 4527512

, at *2 (C.D. Cal. Aug. 30, 2016) 2 9. Thus, the Parties request that the Court amend the case management 3 order to set new deadlines for expert reports and class certification briefing. 5 10. The Parties have worked diligently to meet all deadlines set by the 6 scheduling order, and have made significant strides, including the completion of fact 7 8 discovery and depositions. However, due to the demands of the other PSA Cases, accounting for the travel schedules of Counsel and Plaintiffs’ experts during the 10 holiday season, and the multitude of discovery that still needs to be reviewed, the 11 U 12 || Parties respectfully request a slight modification to the Amended Case Management 5B Order. O = 14 . . . . O 11. For the reasons discussed above, good cause exists for modifying the > 15 16 || Amended Case Management Order. 17 12. This Motion is made in good faith, not for delay or any dilatory tactic, 18 and no party will be unduly prejudiced or harmed by the grant of this Motion. 19 20 WHEREFORE, Plaintiffs and Defendants respectfully request the following 21 || modifications detailed below: 22 23 24 ee Current Deadline Proposed Deadline I Plaintiffs’ Expert December 7, 2023 January 31, 2024 26 ||| Disclosures Plaintiffs’ Motion for December 7, 2023 January 31, 2024 27 ||| Class Certification 28 -4- TOINTT CTIPTIT ATION BOR EY TENCTION OF TIME FOR CT ACS TIBICA TION

1 || Defendants’ Expert February 12, 2024 April 8, 2024 7 || Disclosures Defendants’ Opposition February 12, 2024 April 8, 2024 3 |!) to Class Certification 4 ||| Plaintiffs’ Reply in March 26, 2024 May 20, 2024 Support of Class 5 ||| Certification 6 7 8 || Respectfully submitted, 9 || KAZEROUNI LAW GROUP, APC KING & SPALDING LLP 10 |) /s/ Gustavo Ponce /s/ Allison Hill White Gustavo Ponce, Esq. Allison Hill White (pro hac vice) Mona Amini, Esq. Jeffrey S. Cashdan (pro hac vice) 6069 S. Fort Apache Rd., Suite 100 Zachary A. McEntyre (pro hac vice) < Las Vegas, Nevada 89148 J. Matthew Brigman (pro hac vice) 1180 Peachtree Street, N.E. — 13] Scott Edelsberg, Esq. (pro hac vice) Atlanta, Georgia 30309 Florida Bar No. 0100537 Christopher Gold, Esq. (pro hac vice) | SANTORO WHITMIRE Florida Bar No. 088733 James E. Whitmire, Esq. = EDELSBERG LAW, P.A. Nevada State Bar No. 6533 < 20900 NE 30th Ave. 10100 W. Charleston Blvd., Suite 250 16 || Suite 417 > Aventura, FL 33180 KING &SPALDING LLP 17 Salta WW Barrett (pro hac vice) Counsel for Plaintiffs W. 2nd street ond the beeps iss Austin, TX 78701 19 Counsel for Defendants 20 21 IT IS SO ORDERED: 22 DATED: 12-6-2023

4 Lia Piet 5 Hon. Cam Ferenbach > UNITED STATES MAGISTRATE JUDGE 26 27 28 _5- TOINT CTIPTIT ATION BOR EYTENCION OF TINIE GOR CT ASS CERTIBICA TION

1 CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE 2 I hereby certify that on December 5, 2023, I electronically filed the foregoing 3 document with the Clerk of the Court using CM/ECEF. I also certify that the foregoing 4 document is being served this day on all counsel identified below via transmission of 5 Notices of Electronic Filing generated by CM/ECF or in some other authorized manner. 6 7 8 Respectfully submitted, 9 KAZEROUNI LAW GROUP, APC /s/ Gustavo Ponce 10 Gustavo Ponce, Esq. Mona Amini, Esq. 11 6069 S. Fort Apache Rd., Suite 100 Las Vegas, Nevada 89148 =< 12

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