Airborne America, Inc. v. Kenway Composites et al

Filing 11

ORDER Granting #9 Joint Motion to Continue Early Neutral Evaluation Conference and Case Management Conference via Videoconference. A Joint Discovery Plan is due 3/8/2021. The Early Neutral Evaluation and Case Management Conference is continued to 3/15/2021 at 9:30 AM before Magistrate Judge Barbara Lynn Major. Signed by Magistrate Judge Barbara Lynn Major on 1/6/2021. (tcf)

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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

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SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

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Case No.: 20CV2208-JLS(BLM)

AIRBORNE AMERICA, INC.,

ORDER GRANTING JOINT MOTION TO
CONTINUE EARLY NEUTRAL
EVALUATION CONFERENCE AND CASE
MANAGEMENT CONFERENCE VIA
VIDEOCONFERENCE

Plaintiff,

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V.

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KENWAY COMPOSITES, et al.,

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Defendants.

[ECF No. 9]

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The above-entitled matter was removed to this Court on November 12, 2020. ECF No.

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December 2, 2020. ECF Nos. 5 and 6.

Defendants CPK Manufacturing and Kenway Composites answered the complaint on

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On December 3, 2020, the Court issued a Notice and Order for Early Neutral Evaluation

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Conference and Case Management Conference Via Videoconference. ECF No. 7. The Court

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scheduled the conferences for January 11, 2021 at 1:30 p.m. Id. at 1.

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On January 6, 2021, the parties filed a Joint Motion to Continue Early Neutral Evaluation

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Conference and Case Management Conference Via Videoconference. ECF No. 9. The parties

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seek to continue the conferences to March 15, 2021 and the deadline to file a joint discovery

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plan from January 4, 2021 to March 8, 2021. Id. at 4. In support, the parties state that (1)
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there is a pending motion to dismiss by Defendants Gemini Insurance Company and Berkley

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Insurance Company, (2) “[D]efendants Kenway Corporation, Kenneth G. Priest, II, Susan Priest,

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Michael Priest, and Ian Kopp have not yet appeared in this action . . .. and Plaintiff Airborne is

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in the process of preparing requests for entry of default, which it expects to submit to the Court

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by no later than January 8, 2021[,]" (3) Defendant Hill & Smith Holdings, PLC, a foreign

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corporation, has not been served in this action and must be served under the Hague Convention

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on Service, (4) not all parties have conferred on the draft joint discovery plan, and (5) a global

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settlement is not possible at the January 11, 2021 ENE and CMC. Id. at 3.

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Good cause appearing, the parties’ motion is GRANTED as follows:

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CONTINUED to March 15, 2021 at 9:30 a.m.
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The ENE and CMC currently scheduled for January 11, 2021 is hereby

On

or

before

March 8, 2021,

the

parties

shall

submit

via

email

([e-mail]), confidential settlement statements.
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No later than March 8, 2021, counsel for each party shall send an e-mail to the

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Court at [e-mail] containing the names of the ENE/CMC participants and

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their contact information [see ECF No. 7 at 4].

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CM/ECF system.

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The parties must exchange initial disclosures pursuant to Rule 26(a)(1)(A-D) no

later than March 8, 2021.

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On or before March 8, 2021, the parties must file a Joint Discovery Plan on the

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All other guidelines and requirements shall remain as previously set. See ECF No.

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IT IS SO ORDERED.
Dated: 1/6/2021

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