Hogan v. Gomez et al

Filing 15

ORDER granting #14 Plaintiff's Unopposed Motion to Stay. Plaintiff shall have up to and including March 30, 2018 to file a motion to remand this case to state court. The parties shall comply with Rule 26 of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure and the Court's Orders (Docs. 7, 8) within FOURTEEN days after the Court enters an Order on Plaintiff's motion to remand. Defendant Fort Motor Company shall file an amended memorandum of law in support of its motion to dismiss within FOURTEEN days after the Court enters an Order on Plaintiff's motion to remand. Signed by Magistrate Judge Carol Mirando on 3/9/2018. (HJ)

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
MIDDLE DISTRICT OF FLORIDA
FORT MYERS DIVISION
WILLIAM HOGAN, JR.,
Plaintiff,
v.

Case No: 2:18-cv-134-FtM-99CM

JULIAN GOMEZ, TAKATA
CORPORATION, TAKATA INC.,
TK HOLDINGS INC. and FORD
MOTOR COMPANY,
Defendants.
ORDER
This matter comes before the Court upon review of Plaintiff’s Unopposed
Motion to Stay (Doc. 14) filed on March 5, 2018.

Plaintiff seeks to stay Defendant

Ford Motor Company’s deadline to file an amended memorandum in support of its
motion dismiss, Plaintiff’s deadline to respond to the motion to dismiss and the
parties’ compliance with the Orders (Docs. 7, 8) and Rule 26 of the Federal Rules of
Civil Procedure because on or before March 30, 2018, Plaintiff will seek to remand
this case to state court for lack of subject matter jurisdiction.

Doc. 14 at 2.

Defendant Ford Motor Company does not oppose the requested relief, and Defendant
TK Holdings Inc. does not take any position on this motion because an automatic
bankruptcy stay as to Defendants Takata Corporation and TK Holdings Inc. is in
effect.

Docs. 11, 14 at 4.
“The power to stay proceedings is incidental to the power inherent in every

court to control the disposition of the causes on its docket with economy of time and

effort for itself, for counsel, and for litigants.”

Landis v. N. Am. Co., 299 U.S. 248,

254 (1936); see also Ricks v. Allied Interstate, LLC, No. 3:16-cv-00205-HES-PDB,
2016 WL 4505173, at *1 (M.D. Fla. July 11, 2016).

This is best accomplished by the

“exercise of judgment, which must weigh competing interests and maintain an even
balance.”

Landis, 299 U.S. at 255. Based on the totality of the circumstances of

this case and the lack of objection from Defendants, the Court will stay certain
deadlines until the Court rules on Plaintiff’s future motion to remand this case to
state court.
ACCORDINGLY, it is hereby
ORDERED:
1.

Plaintiff's Unopposed Motion to Stay (Doc. 14) is GRANTED.

2.

Plaintiff shall have up to and including March 30, 2018 to file a motion to

remand this case to state court.
3.

The parties shall comply with Rule 26 of the Federal Rules of Civil

Procedure and the Court’s Orders (Docs. 7, 8) within FOURTEEN days after the
Court enters an Order on Plaintiff’s motion to remand.
4.

Defendant Fort Motor Company shall file an amended memorandum of

law in support of its motion to dismiss within FOURTEEN days after the Court enters
an Order on Plaintiff’s motion to remand.

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DONE and ORDERED in Fort Myers, Florida on this 9th day of March, 2018.

Copies:
Counsel of record

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