Schorr v. Wolf Principal Holdings, LP
Schorr v. Wolf Principal Holdings, LP
Trial Court Opinion
1 JSakyy lJa. rS Achraukttaewrta, -EPsaqm. p(ShBilNon 8, 6E5s6q). (SBN 15864) 2 EVANS FEARS SCHUTTERT MCNULTY MICKUS 6720 Via Austi Parkway, Suite 300 3 Las Vegas, NV 89119 Telephone: (702) 805-0290 4 Facsimile: (702) 805-0291 5 Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] 6 Attorneys for Defendant/Cross-Defendant Schindler Elevator Corporation 7 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 8 FOR THE STATE OF NEVADA 9 SETH SCHORR, Case No. 2:22-cv-01806-MMD-MDC 10 Plaintiff, JOINT STIPULATION AND ORDER 11 TO EXTEND DISCOVERY AND 12 vs. DISPOSITIVE MOTION DEADLINES
13 WOLFF PRINCIPAL HOLDINGS, LP d/b/a (SIXTH REQUEST) FREMONT & 9TH APARTMENTS; 14 SCHINDLER ELEVATOR CORPORATION; DOES I through X; and ROE BUSINESS 15 ENTITIES I through X, inclusive,
16 Defendants, 17 18 and related cross-claims. 19 20 IT IS STIPULATED AND AGREED, by and between Plaintiff Seth Schorr, by and through 21 his attorney of record, Nia Killebrew, Esq. of Richard Harris Law Firm; Defendant Wolff Principal 22 Holdings, LP d/b/a Fremont & 9th Apartments, by and through its attorney of record, David S. Lee, 23 Esq. of Lee, Landrum & Ingle, and Defendant Schindler Elevator Corporation, by and through its 24 attorney of record, Jay J. Schuttert of Evans Fears Schuttert McNulty Mickus, that the January 27, 25 2025 discovery cut off, February 24, 2025 dispositive motion, and March 24, 2025 pretrial order 26 deadlines in the Stipulation and Order to Modify Discovery Plan and Scheduling Order to Extend 27 Discovery Deadlines [ECF NO. 39] be continued by 60 days as follows: 28 1 I. DISCOVERY COMPLETED TO DATE 2 • The parties participated in the Fed. R. Civ. P. 26(f) conference on December 6, 2022. 3 • Plaintiff produced his Initial Fed. R. Civ. P. 26(a) Disclosures on December 9, 2022. 4 • Plaintiff produced his 1st Supplement to Initial Fed. R. Civ P. 26(a) Disclosures on March 5 6, 2023. 6 • Defendant Wolff Principal Holdings, LP dba Fremont & 9th Apartments produced its Initial 7 Fed. R. Civ. P. 26(a) Disclosures on January 25, 2023. 8 • Defendant Schindler Elevator Corporation produced its Initial Fed. R. Civ. P. 26(a) 9 Disclosures on January 4, 2023. 10 • Defendant Schindler Elevator Corporation produced its 1st Supplement to its Initial Fed. R. 11 Civ. P. 26(a) Disclosures on February 3, 2023. 12 • Plaintiff served Interrogatories and Requests for Production of Documents to Defendant 13 Wolff Principal Holding, LP dba Fremont & 9th Apartments. 14 • Plaintiff served Interrogatories and Request for Production of Documents to Defendant 15 Schindler Elevator Corporation. 16 • Defendant Wolff Principal Holding, LP dba Fremont & 9th Apartments served 1st Set of 17 Interrogatories and 1st Set of Request for Production of Documents to Plaintiff. 18 • Defendant Wolff Principal Holding, LP dba Fremont & 9th Apartments served 2nd Set of 19 Interrogatories and 1st Set of Requests for Admissions to Plaintiff. 20 • Defendant Wolff Principal Holding, LP dba Fremont & 9th Apartments served 1st Set of 21 Interrogatories 1st Set of Request for Production of Documents and 1st Set of Requests for 22 Admissions to Defendant Schindler Elevator Corporation. 23 • Defendant Schindler Elevator Corporation served 1st Set of Interrogatories and 1st Set of 24 Requests for Production of Documents to Plaintiff. 25 • Plaintiff served his responses to Defendant Wolff Principal Holding, LP dba Fremont & 9th 26 Apartments’ 1st Set of Interrogatories, 2nd Set of Interrogatories, 1st Set of Request for 27 Production of Documents, and 1st Set of Requests for Admissions. 28 1 • Plaintiff served his responses to Schindler Elevator Corporation’ 1st Set of Interrogatories 2 and 1st Set of Requests for Production of Documents, 2nd Set of Interrogatories and 2nd Set 3 of Requests for Production of Documents. 4 • Defendant Schindler Elevator Corporation served its responses to Defendant Wolff 5 Principal Holding, LP dba Fremont & 9th Apartments’ 1st Set of Request for Production of 6 Documents and 1st Set of Requests for Admissions. 7 • Defendant Schindler Elevator Corporation produced its 2nd Supplement to its Initial Fed. 8 R. Civ. P. 26(a) Disclosures on April 17, 2023. 9 • Plaintiff produced his 2nd Supplement to Initial Fed. R. Civ P. 26(a) Disclosures on April 10 21, 2023. 11 • The parties and their experts conducted an inspection of the subject elevator on May 4, 12 2023. 13 • Plaintiff produced his 3rd Supplement to Initial Fed. R. Civ P. 26(a) Disclosures on May 14 23, 2023. 15 • Plaintiff produced his 4th Supplement to Initial Fed. R. Civ P. 26(a) Disclosures on June 16 22, 2023. 17 • Defendant Schindler Elevator Corporation produced its 3rd Supplement to its Initial Fed. 18 R. Civ. P. 26(a) Disclosures on July 5, 2023. 19 • Plaintiff produced his 5th Supplement to Initial Fed. R. Civ P. 26(a) Disclosures on July 11, 20 2023. 21 • Defendant Schindler Elevator Corporation produced its 4th Supplement to its Initial Fed. 22 R. Civ. P. 26(a) Disclosures on July 19, 2023. 23 • Plaintiff produced his 6th Supplement to Initial Fed. R. Civ P. 26(a) Disclosures on July 25, 24 2023. 25 • Plaintiff produced his 7th Supplement to Initial Fed. R. Civ P. 26(a) Disclosures on August 26 10, 2023. 27 • Defendant Schindler Elevator Corporation produced its 5th Supplement to its Initial Fed. 28 R. Civ. P. 26(a) Disclosures on September 7, 2023. 1 • Plaintiff produced his 8th Supplement to Initial Fed. R. Civ P. 26(a) Disclosures on 2 September 7, 2023. 3 • The deposition of Plaintiff Seth Schorr was taken on September 17, 2023. 4 • Plaintiff produced his 9th Supplement to Initial Fed. R. Civ P. 26(a) Disclosures on 5 September 28, 2023. 6 • Plaintiff produced his 10th Supplement to Initial Fed. R. Civ P. 26(a) Disclosures on 7 November 1, 2023. 8 • The independent medical examination of Plaintiff was performed on November 20, 2023. 9 • Defendant Schindler Elevator Corporation produced its 6th Supplement to its Initial Fed. 10 R. Civ. P. 26(a) Disclosures on December 6, 2023. 11 • The deposition of Schindler employee Michael Patton was taken on December 7, 2023. 12 • Plaintiff served his 3rd Set of Requests for Production of Documents to Schindler. 13 • The deposition of Defendant Wolff employee Flavio Rubio was taken on January 23, 2024. 14 • Defendant Schindler Elevator Corporation produced its 7th Supplement to its Initial Fed. 15 R. Civ. P. 26(a) Disclosures on March 6, 2024. 16 • The deposition of Defendant Wolff employee Penny Killen was taken on March 26, 2024. 17 • Defendant Schindler Elevator Corporation served its responses to Plaintiff’s 3rd Set of 18 Requests for Production of Documents. 19 • Defendant Schindler Elevator Corporation produced its 8th Supplement to its Initial Fed. 20 R. Civ. P. 26(a) Disclosures on April 18, 2024. 21 • The deposition of Schindler mechanic Joseph Hobby was taken on April 30, 2024. 22 • Plaintiff served his 4th Set of Requests for Production of Documents to Schindler. 23 • Defendant Schindler Elevator Corporation served its responses to Plaintiff’s 4th Set of 24 Requests for Production of Documents. 25 • Plaintiff served his responses to Schindler’s 2nd Set of Interrogatories. 26 • Plaintiff produced his Initial Expert Disclosures on July 29, 2024. 27 • Defendants Schindler Elevator Corporation and Wolff produced their Initial Expert 28 Disclosures on September 3, 2024. 1 • The deposition of state inspector Ronnie Blakeny was taken on September 5, 2024. 2 • Plaintiff produced his Rebuttal Expert disclosures on October 1, 2024, disclosing Dr. 3 Randall E. Yee as an additional expert witness. 4 • The deposition of third-party inspector, Greg Neff, was taken on November 21, 2024. 5 • The Fed. R. Civ. P. 30(b)(6) deposition of Schindler’s corporate designee was taken on 6 December 6, 2024. 7 II. DISCOVERY TO BE COMPLETED 8 Plaintiff and Defendants respectfully request a 60-day extension of the January 27, 2025 9 discovery cut off date and February 24, 2025 dispositive motion deadline to complete the following 10 expert depositions: 11 • The deposition of Plaintiff’s damages expert, Dr. Mihir Patel, is set for January 10, 2025; 12 • The deposition of Plaintiff’s damages expert, Dr. David Oliveri, is set for January 21, 2025; 13 • The deposition of Plaintiff’s expert, Dennis Olson, which was set for December 12, 2024, 14 but postponed until January 23, 2025, to give Mr. Olson sufficient time to review the 15 deposition testimony of Greg Neff and Schindler’s corporate designee; 16 • The deposition of Defendants’ co-retained damages expert, Dr. Daniel Lee, is set for 17 January 24, 2025; 18 • The deposition of Defendants’ co-retained damages expert, Dr. Roger Fontes, is set for 19 January 27, 2025; 20 • The deposition of Plaintiff’s rebuttal damages expert, Dr. Randall E. Yee, is set for February 21 5, 2025; 22 • The deposition of Schindler’s expert, John Donnelly, which was set for January 9, 2024, 23 but postponed until February 11, 2025 to accommodate Dennis Olson’s rescheduled 24 deposition; 25 • The deposition of Schindler’s liability expert, Hanh Le, which was set for January 31, 2025, 26 but postponed until February 21, 2025 to accommodate Dennis Olson’s rescheduled 27 deposition; 28 1 • The deposition of Defendants’ co-retained damages expert, Dr. Staci Ross is set for 2 February 24, 2025; and 3 • The deposition of Defendant Wolff’s liability expert, Michael Fagan, which has not been 4 set due to him retiring and Defendant Wolff needing to find a replacement. 5 III. REASONS DISCOVERY WAS NOT COMPLETED AND GOOD CAUSE 6 FOR A DISCOVERY EXTENSION 7 Good cause exists to extend discovery deadlines if they “cannot reasonably be met despite 8 the diligence of the party seeking the extension.” Johnson v. Mammoth Recreations,
975 F.2d 604, 9 609 (9th Cir. 1992). The parties have been working diligently to complete discovery in this case, 10 including engaging in significant written discovery, deposing numerous fact witnesses, and setting 11 five expert depositions before the current discovery cutoff. However, despite the parties’ best 12 efforts, additional time is needed to complete discovery. Defendant Wolff has been notified that 13 its elevator expert, Michael Fagan, is retiring and counsel is currently working with his office to 14 coordinate a replacement. With the upcoming winter holidays and given that Mr. Fagan is no longer 15 available to appear for deposition or trial, the parties request that the discovery cut off, dispositive 16 motion, and pretrial order deadline be extended by 60 days. This extension will afford Defendant 17 Wolff sufficient time to select a replacement expert, who will in turn need to familiarize him or 18 herself with this case, form his or her opinions, and prepare for his or her expert deposition. 19 Besides Wolff’s expert retiring, two other expert witnesses were in any event not available 20 until after the January 27, 2025 discovery cut off. Additionally, the depositions of fact witness 21 Greg Neff and Schindler’s corporate designee were pushed to late November and early December 22 to accommodate Schindler’s fall 2024 trial conflict. Mr. Olson’s deposition, which was originally 23 set for December 12, 2024, was then postponed to January 23, 2025 to allow Mr. Olson sufficient 24 time to review this deposition testimony as well as accommodate the winter holidays. Mr. 25 Donnelly’s deposition, which was originally set for January 9, 2025 was in turn postponed to mid- 26 February 2025 to accommodate Mr. Olson’s new deposition date. And Hanh Le’s deposition, 27 which was originally set for January 31, 2025 was postponed to late-February 2025 accommodate 28 Mr. Olson and Mr. Donnelly’s new deposition dates as well. 1 Furthermore, Schindler’s counsel, Jay J. Schuttert, will be out-of-state for another product 2 liability trial beginning early-January 2025 and it is expected to go through mid-February 2025. 3 Specifically, Mr. Schuttert is admitted pro hac vice and will be involved in the Johnson v. Monsanto 4 (Case No. 23CV00614) trial that is pending in Butte County, California before the Honorable Judge 5 Stephen E. Benson. The trial is scheduled to begin on January 13, 2025, with pre-trial conferences 6 scheduled for the week of January 6, 2025. Because this trial is expected to take 3-4 weeks, it will 7 obviously limit Schindler’s ability to participate in expert depositions during the month of January 8 and early February 2025. Schindler is able to get coverage for the five expert depositions that will 9 likely take place while Mr. Schuttert is at trial, however, the additional time will allow Schindler’s 10 counsel flexibility to participate in the remaining five expert depositions. 11 Given Mr. Fagan’s retirement, Mr. Schuttert’s trial conflict, the aforementioned expert 12 scheduling conflicts, and the winter holidays, Plaintiff and Defendants agree to a proposed 13 extension of the current January 27, 2025 close of discovery and the February 24, 2025 dispositive 14 motion deadline by 60 days. The paties additionally agree to extend the pretrial order deadline to 15 accommodate the proposed new discovery cut off and dispositive motion deadlines. Counsel for 16 the parties have been diligently working together to prepare this stipulation and obtain an extension 17 of these case management deadlines. The parties are also hoping that the additional 60 days will 18 allow the parties the opportunity to engage in settlement negotiations prior to completing all ten 19 expert depositions. Accordingly, no party is prejudiced by the additional time necessary to conduct 20 the remaining discovery. And the foregoing circumstances constitute good cause to extend the 21 discovery cut off date and dispositive motion deadline, and the parties jointly and in good faith 22 request this Court enter an Order extending the scheduling deadlines in accordance with their 23 stipulation. There is no trial date set in this case. 24 25 26 27 28 1 IV. PROPOSED REVISED DISCOVERY PLAN 2 The parties hereby stipulate to and propose the following amendments to the current 3 scheduling deadlines: 4 Old Deadline New Deadline 5 Final date to amend pleadings or add parties: July 29, 2024 COMPLETED 6 Plaintiff’s initial expert disclosures: July 29, 2024 COMPLETED 7 Defendants’ initial expert disclosures: September 3, 2024 COMPLETED 8 Rebuttal expert disclosures: October 1, 2024 COMPLETED 9 Discovery cut off: January 27, 2025 March 28, 2025 10 Dispositive motions: February 24, 2025 April 25, 2025 11 Pre-Trial Order: March 24, 2025 May 23, 2025 12 No trial date has been set. 13
14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 1 SUBMITTED BY THE FOLLOWING COUNSEL OF RECORD: Dated: December 17, 2024. 2
3 EVANS FEARS SCHUTTERT MCNULTY RICHARD HARRIS LAW FIRM 4 MICKUS
5 /s/ Jay J. Schuttert /s/ Nia C. Killebrew Jay J. Schuttert, Esq. (SBN 8656) Nia C. Killebrew, Esq. (SBN 4553) 6 Skylar Arakawa-Pamphilon, Esq. (SBN 15864) 801 South Fourth Street 6720 Via Austi Parkway, Suite 300 Las Vegas, NV 89101 7 Las Vegas, NV 89119 8 Attorneys for Plaintiff Seth Schorr Attorneys for Defendant/Cross-Defendant 9 Schindler Elevator Corporation
10 LEE, LANDRUM & INGLE
11 /s/ David S. Lee 12 David S. Lee, Esq. (SBN 6033) 7575 Vegas Drive, Suite 150 13 Las Vegas, NV 89128
14 Attorneys for Defendant Wolff Principal Holdings, LP dba Fremont & 9th Apartments 15
16 / / / 17 / / / 18 / / / 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 1 [PROPOSED] ORDER 2 IT IS SO ORDERED. Based upon the foregoing stipulation, the 90-day extension to 3 discovery deadlines are granted as follows: 4 5 Old Deadline New Deadline 6 Final date to amend pleadings or add parties: July 29, 2024 COMPLETED 7 Plaintiff's initial expert disclosures: July 29, 2024 COMPLETED 8 Defendants’ initial expert disclosures: September 3, 2024 COMPLETED ? Rebuttal expert disclosures: October 1, 2024 COMPLETED 10 Discovery cut off: January 27, 2025 March 28, 2025 Dispositive motions: February 24, 2025 = April 25, 2025 V2 Pre-Trial Order: March 24, 2025 May 23, 2025 13 No trial date has been set. 14 JZ - 15 Ah x f _——__ 16 Hon. Maxipfiliano D. Zouvillier I UNIT TATES MAGIST E JUDGE 17 DATED: 12/19/2024/ Case No. 2:22-cv-(@1806,VIMD-MDC 18 19 Respectfully submitted by: 20 > EVANS FEARS SCHUTTERT MCNULTY MICKUS
97 || S/Jay J. Schuttert Jay J. Schuttert, Esq. (SBN 8656) 23 || Skylar Arakawa-Pamphilon, Esq. (SBN 15864) 6720 Via Austi Parkway, Suite 300 24 || Las Vegas, NV 89119 Attorneys for Defendant/Cross-Defendant 5 |! Schindler Elevator Corporation 26 27 28
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