Opinion
2:22-cv-01671-RSL
12-18-2023
CHRISTIE LAW GROUP, PLLC, ROBERT L. CHRISTIE, WSBA #10895, Attorney for Defendants. DAVIS WRIGHT TREMAINE SCOTT R. COMMERSON, Attorney for Plaintiffs. DAVIS WRIGHT TREMAINE, LAUREN BURDETTE RAINWATER, WSBA # 43625, Attorney for Plaintiffs.
CHRISTIE LAW GROUP, PLLC, ROBERT L. CHRISTIE, WSBA #10895, Attorney for Defendants.
DAVIS WRIGHT TREMAINE SCOTT R. COMMERSON, Attorney for Plaintiffs.
DAVIS WRIGHT TREMAINE, LAUREN BURDETTE RAINWATER, WSBA # 43625, Attorney for Plaintiffs.
STIPULATED MOTION AND ORDER TO EXTEND TIME TO RESPOND TO COMPLAINT
Robert S. Lasnik, United States District Judge.
STIPULATED MOTION
COME NOW, the parties, by and through their counsel of record, and submit the following stipulated motion and proposed order to extend the time for defendants to answer or otherwise respond to the Complaint until and including February 9, 2024. The grounds for this motion are as follows:
1. The first Defendant served with the Complaint, Defendant Moffa, was served on December 5, 2023, making his response to the Complaint due on December 26, 2023, the day after Christmas.
2. Other Defendants were served subsequently.
3. Defendants contacted and engaged counsel to represent them in this matter on December 14, 2023.
4. The Complaint is lengthy, alleges four causes of action, contains 118 paragraphs, and has several lengthy exhibits.
5. The requested extension will give Defendants and their counsel time to adequately prepare their response(s) to the Complaint and will not prejudice the Plaintiffs, as this action was stayed after an Ex Parte motion of Plaintiffs from December 1, 2022 (see Dkt. # 9) until November 9, 2023 (see Dkt. # 13).
6. This is the first request that any Defendant has made for an extension of time to respond to the Complaint.
For the reasons set forth above the Defendants respectfully request that they be granted an extension until and including February 9, 2024 to answer or otherwise respond to the Complaint. Plaintiffs agree to this request and have courteously joined in this motion.
IT IS SO STIPULATED.
ORDER
Based upon the foregoing Stipulation, IT IS HEREBY ORDERED, ADJUDGED AND DECREED that the deadline for Defendants to Answer or otherwise respond to the Complaint is extended until and including February 9, 2024.