Securities & Exchange Commission v. Hemp, Inc. et al

Filing 62

SCHEDULING ORDER Granting 61 MOTION to Amend Scheduling Order. ( Motions due by 11/13/2017.) Signed by Magistrate Judge Peggy A. Leen on 5/5/17. (Copies have been distributed pursuant to the NEF - ADR)

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Amy J. Oliver (Utah #8785) (admitted pro hac vice)
[e-mail]
Daniel J. Wadley (Utah #10358) (admitted pro hac vice)
[e-mail]
James J. Thibodeau (Utah #15473) (admitted pro hac vice)
[e-mail]
Attorneys for Plaintiff
Securities and Exchange Commission
Salt Lake Regional Office
351 South West Temple
Suite 6.100
Salt Lake City, UT 84101-1950
Tel.: [phone]
Fax: [phone]

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
DISTRICT OF NEVADA

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE
COMMISSION,
Plaintiff,
v.
HEMP, INC. a Colorado Corporation;
Case No. 2:16-cv-1413 JAD-PAL
BRUCE J. PERLOWIN, an individual; BARRY
K. EPLING, an individual; JED M. PERLOWIN,
STIPIULATED MOTION TO AMEND
an individual; FERRIS HOLDING, INC., a private THE SCHEDULING ORDER
Nevada Corporation; HOBBES EQUITIES INC., a
(Second Request)
private Nevada Corporation; DIVERSIFIED
INVESTMENTS LLC, a private Nevada Limited
Liability Company; and QUANTUM ECONOMIC
PROTOCOLS LLC, a private Nevada Limited
Liability Company.
Defendants.

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Plaintiff, Securities and Exchange Commission (the “Commission”), hereby moves the
Court to amend the previously entered Scheduling Order (Docket No. 40) and Amended
Scheduling Order (Docket No. 58) by extending the dates for fact and expert discovery and for
dispositive motions. Defendants Hemp, Inc., Bruce J. Perlowin, Barry K. Epling, Jed M.
Perlowin, Ferris Holding, Inc., Hobbes Equities, Inc., Diversified Investments, LLC, and
Quantum Economic Protocols, LLC, through their respective counsel, have all stipulated to the
Plaintiff’s motion. This is the second stipulation for a motion to amend the scheduling order.
The reasons for this Motion are as follows. The parties are actively engaged in
discovery, including the exchange of written discovery and the taking of numerous depositions.
The discovery responses and deposition testimony are necessary for the parties’ respective expert
reports, but will not be available in time for the experts to adequately incorporate them into their
reports. Were the parties to maintain the current schedule for expert discovery, it would
necessitate supplemental reports from experts and cause the parties to incur additional time and
expense. Moving the fact and expert deadlines would also necessitate allowing time for expert
depositions after the exchange of expert reports as well as moving the deadline for the filing of
dispositive motions so that the parties may have the benefit of completing expert discovery
before the dispositive motion deadline.
Therefore, the parties have stipulated to move the following deadlines as set forth below:
1. Fact Discovery Deadline: July 17, 2017.
2. Plaintiff’s expert report(s) due on July 17, 2017.
3. Defendants’ expert report(s) due on August 16, 2017.
4. Discovery deadline for expert depositions on September 29, 2017.
5. Dispositive motion deadline on November 13, 2017.

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IT IS SO STIPULATED.

Dated: May 2, 2017

s/Daniel J. Wadley
Amy J. Oliver
Daniel J. Wadley
James J. Thibodeau
Attorneys for Plaintiff
Securities and Exchange Commission

Dated: May 2, 2017

s/Jonathan D. Bletzacker
Brent R. Baker
Jonathan D. Bletzacker
Attorney for Jed Perlowin, Diversified Investments
LLC, Quantum Economic Protocols LLC

Dated: May 2, 2017

s/Timothy J. Coley
Thomas A. Sporkin
Timothy J. Coley
Attorney for Bruce Perlowin, Hemp Inc., Barry
Epling, Ferris Holding, Inc., Hobbes Equities Inc.

IT IS SO ORDERED.

______________________________
HONORABLE PEGGY A. LEEN
UNITED STATES MAGISTRATE JUDGE
May 5, 2017
DATED: ______________________

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CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE
I hereby certify that on the 3rd day of May, 2017, I served STIPIULATED MOTION
TO AMEND THE SCHEDULING ORDER (Second Request) to the following parties
entitled to service via the Court’s ECF system to the counsel indicated below:

Thomas A. Sporkin
Timothy J. Coley
Buckley Sandler LLP
1250 24th Street NW, Suite 700
Washington D.C. 20037
[e-mail]
[e-mail]
Brent R. Baker
Jonathan D. Bletzacker
Clyde Snow
One Utah Center
Thirteenth Floor
201 South Main Street
Salt Lake City, Utah 84111
[e-mail]
[e-mail]

/s/ Kenji Kawa

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