Dixon Legacy Transportation Systems, LLC

Filing 118

ORDER granting in part 114 motion to stay or. alternatively, extend deadlines. IT IS FURTHER ORDERED that plaintiff's motion for a settlement conference 115 is GRANTED. This case is referred to a magistrate judge to schedule a mandatory settlement conference. Signed by Judge Jennifer A. Dorsey on 6/28/2017. (Copies have been distributed pursuant to the NEF - DC)

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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

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DISTRICT OF NEVADA

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Sarah Dixon,

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2:15-cv-01359-JAD-PAL

Plaintiff
Order

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v.

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Legacy Transportation Systems, LLC, et al,

ECF Nos. 114, 115
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Defendants
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ALL RELATED CLAIMS AND PARTIES

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This case arises from an August 2013 car accident on Interstate 15. Sarah Dixon was a

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passenger in a car driven by Ryan Richards. Traffic backed up, and while Richards was driving

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on the highway’s shoulder, Leoncio Angeles moved the Legacy Transportation tractor-trailer he

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was driving into the car’s path. Richards lost control of the car, and Dixon was injured. Dixon

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settled with Richards and then filed this lawsuit against Angeles and Legacy. Angeles and

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Legacy filed a third-party complaint against Richards,1 and I have denied Richards’s requests to

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deem his settlement with Dixon a good-faith settlement that cuts off Angeles’s and Legacy’s

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contribution and indemnity rights.2
A handful of motions are pending including motions to strike experts3 and plaintiff’s

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motion for partial summary judgment4 that is not yet fully briefed. Defendants ask me to extend

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the deadline for their opposition to plaintiff’s motion for partial summary judgment until 14 days

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after the magistrate judge has ruled on the motions to strike, which are scheduled for hearing on

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ECF No. 12.

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ECF Nos. 30, 103 (minutes).

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ECF Nos. 101, 102, 109.

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ECF No. 108.

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July 25, 2017—a hearing that the parties anticipate will be bumped into early August to

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accommodate their scheduling conflicts.5 Defendants represent that the expert testimony and the

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question of its admissibility are material to their opposition and that judicial economy dictates

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that the deadline for their opposition be extended until after Magistrate Judge Leen has had the

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opportunity to rule on the pending motions to strike. Plaintiff also asks the court to order the

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parties to a mandatory settlement conference,6 arguing that the posture of the case—discovery

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closed, motions pending, and more motions anticipated—makes this a good time to explore

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settlement.

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Good cause appearing, IT IS HEREBY ORDERED that Defendants’ Emergency Motion

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to Stay or, Alternatively, Extend the Deadlines for Briefing on Plaintiff’s Motion for Partial

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Summary Judgment [ECF No. 114] is GRANTED in part. Defendants’ opposition to the

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motion for partial summary judgment [ECF No. 108] will be due 10 days after the

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magistrate judge issues her ruling on the pending motions to strike [ECF Nos. 101, 102,

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109]. Briefing will then continue in accordance with the schedule in LR 7-2(b);

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IT IS FURTHER ORDERED that plaintiff’s motion for a settlement conference [ECF

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No. 115] is GRANTED. This case is referred to a magistrate judge to schedule a

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mandatory settlement conference.

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DATED: June 28, 2017

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Jennifer A. Dorsey
United States District Judge

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ECF No. 114.

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ECF No. 115.

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