Opinion
Case No. 1:15-CV-01563-TLN-EPG
09-01-2016
ANGELA CRUZ, MARIA MADRIGAL LOURDES BAIZ and CHRISTIE GOODMAN, individuals, residing in California, Plaintiffs, v. MM 879, INC., a corporation; BARRETT BUSINESS SERVICES, INC., a corporation; SERVICEMASTER COMPANY LLC., a corporation; MERRY MAIDS LIMITED PARTNERSHIP, a limited partnership; MERRY MAIDS LIMITED LIABILITY CORPORATION, a limited liability corporation, and DOES 1 through 98, inclusive, Defendants.
ORDER ALLOWING ENLARGEMENT OF PAGE LIMITATIONS FOR BRIEFING REGARDING DEFENDANTS' SERVICEMASTER COMPANY LL, MERRY MAIDS LIMITED PARTNERSHIP AND MM MAIDS LLC'S MOTION FOR SUMMARY JUDGMENT, OR IN THE ALTERNATIVE, PARTIAL SUMMARY JUDGMENT
Plaintiffs ANGELA CRUZ, MARIA MADRIGAL LOURDES BAIZ and CHRISTIE GOODMAN ("Plaintiffs") and Defendants THE SERVICEMASTER COMPANY LLC, MERRY MAIDS LIMITED PARTNERSHIP, AND MM MAIDS LLC ("Defendants") through their undersigned counsel, have stipulated as follows:
1. Pursuant to this Court's Pretrial (Status) Scheduling Order, the Court places a page limit on dispositive motions of 20 pages on all initial moving papers, and 20 pages on opposition.
2. Pursuant to this Court's Case Management Procedures, the Court has authority to relieve parties from the 20-page limit imposed on dispositive motions and oppositions.
3. The parties, by and through their respective counsel, agree that due to the nature and number of the claims at issue in Defendants' Motion for Summary Judgment, or in the Alternative, Partial Summary Judgment, including disagreements over the proper application of the franchisor liability theory described by the Supreme Court in Patterson v. Domino's Pizza, LLC, 60 Cal.4th 474 (2014), additional briefing beyond the limits in the Court's Pretrial (Status) Scheduling Order is proper and necessary to fully brief the parties' respective facts and arguments. The parties therefore stipulate and agree as follows:
a) Defendants' Motion for Summary Judgment, or in the Alternative, Partial Summary Judgment may contain twenty-five (25) pages or less; and(Stipulation, ECF No. 109.)
b) Plaintiffs' Opposition to Defendants' Motion for Summary Judgment, or in the Alternative, Partial Summary Judgment may twenty-five (25) pages or less.
The parties having so stipulated, and GOOD CAUSE APPEARING, IT IS HEREBY ORDERED that:
Defendants THE SERVICEMASTER COMPANY LLC, MERRY MAIDS LIMITED PARTNERSHIP, AND MM MAIDS LLC's Motion for Summary Judgment, or in the Alternative, Partial Summary Judgment may contain twenty-five (25) pages or less; and
Plaintiffs' Opposition to that Motion may contain twenty-five (25) pages or less. Dated: September 1, 2016
/s/_________
Troy L. Nunley
United States District Judge