Opinion
2:21-cv-00377-APG-DJA
02-09-2023
ERIN ALLEN, Plaintiff, v. VOCATUS, LLC, a Nevada Limited Liability Company; SHAMOUN'S, LLC, a Nevada Limited Liability Company; and DOES and ROE entities I - X, inclusive, Defendants.
HKM EMPLOYMENT ATTORNEYS LLP JENNY L. FOLEY, Ph.D., ESQ. MICHAEL ARATA, ESQ. Attorneys for Plaintiff OGLETREE, DEAKINS, NASH, SMOAK & STEWART, P.C. SUZANNE L. MARTIN, ESQ. MICHELLE C. KRAKORA, ESQ. Attorneys for Defendants
HKM EMPLOYMENT ATTORNEYS LLP JENNY L. FOLEY, Ph.D., ESQ. MICHAEL ARATA, ESQ. Attorneys for Plaintiff
OGLETREE, DEAKINS, NASH, SMOAK & STEWART, P.C. SUZANNE L. MARTIN, ESQ. MICHELLE C. KRAKORA, ESQ. Attorneys for Defendants
STIPULATION AND ORDER TO EXTEND TIME FOR PARTIES TO SUBMIT JOINT PRETRIAL ORDER AND REQUEST FOR SETTLEMENT CONFERENCE
(SECOND REQUEST)
Plaintiff ERIN ALLEN (“Plaintiff”), and Defendants VOCATUS, LLC and SHAMOUN'S, LLC (“Defendants”), through their respective attorneys of record, stipulate to, and agree upon, a sixty (60) day extension of the deadline to submit a joint pretrial order in order for the parties to participate in a settlement conference, as follows. This is the parties second request to extend the deadline to submit a joint pretrial order and is not made for purposes of undue delay as discussed in further detail below.
On May 4, 2022, Defendants filed their Motion for Summary Judgment, [ECF 35], which Plaintiff opposed. On December 12, 2022, this Court entered its Order granting in part and denying in part Defendants' Motion for Partial Summary Judgment. [ECF 54]. Pursuant to most recent scheduling order, [ECF 34], the parties were due to submit their joint pretrial order thirty (30) days from the Court's Order regarding Defendants' Motion for Partial Summary Judgment, i.e., January 11, 2023. On January 11, 2023, this Court approved the parties' stipulation to extend the deadline to submit the joint pretrial order to February 10, 2023. [ECF56].
Since that time, the parties have engaged in limited settlement discussions but believe that a settlement conference would increase the likelihood of settlement. Therefore, the parties request that this Court set this case for a settlement conference pursuant to LR 16-5. The parties, however, request that the settlement conference not be set during the week of March 13-17, 2023, due to known conflicts.
Also, in order to help preserve the parties' and this Court's resources and to allow the parties to focus their efforts on case resolution instead of performing potentially unnecessary work ahead of a settlement conference, the parties hereby stipulate and agree the parties shall have until April 11, 2023, to submit the joint pretrial order.
ORDER
IT IS SO ORDERED. The Court will enter a separate order setting the settlement conference.