Cabebe v. Equifax Information Services, LLC

Filing 63

ORDER that 57 Motion to Extend Discovery Deadlines is GRANTED in part and DENIED in part. Deadlines are SET as follows: Discovery due by 1/8/2018. Motions due by 2/7/2018. Proposed Joint Pretrial Order due by 3/9/2018. Signed by Magistrate Judge Nancy J. Koppe on 10/20/17. (Copies have been distributed pursuant to the NEF - MMM)

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1 2 3 4 5 6 7 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 8 DISTRICT OF NEVADA 9 10 ROBERT SUSTRIK, et al., 11 Plaintiff(s), 12 vs. 13 EQUIFAX INFORMATION SERVICES, LLC, 14 Defendant(s). 15 ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) Case No. 2:16-cv-02866-RFB-NJK ORDER (Docket No. 57) 16 Pending before the Court is Plaintiffs’ motion to extend the discovery cutoff by 90 days. Docket 17 No. 57. Defendant filed a response in partial opposition, agreeing only to an extension of 30 days. 18 Docket No. 60. Plaintiffs filed a reply. Docket No. 62. Had common-sense practicality and cooperation 19 prevailed during the meet-and-confer process, this dispute would not have required judicial intervention. 20 Cf. Olesczuk v. Citizens One Home Loans, 2016 U.S. Dist. Lexis 153342, at *2-3 (D. Nev. Nov. 4, 21 2016).1 Having now reviewed the motion and briefing, the Court finds good cause exists for a 60-day 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 1 The parties contacted chambers in an attempt to resolve this dispute informally pursuant to Local Rule 1-1(b) before conducting their required meet-and-confer on the dispute. See Docket No. 57-1 at ¶ 22 (“Because the Court indicated its preference for briefing, the parties held their 26-7 conference”). As the Court has explained previously, an informal conference with chambers may not be used a substitute for conducting a meet-and-confer. See Olesczuk, 2016 U.S. Dist. Lexis 153342, at *2 (“Local Rule 1-1 has not transformed magistrate judges into clearinghouses for resolving insignificant discovery disputes. Counsel are still expected to seek court involvement as a last resort only when a discovery dispute implicates truly significant interests that counsel cannot resolve through reasonable cooperation during the meet-and-confer process”). 1 extension of the discovery cutoff and subsequent deadlines.2 The motion to extend is therefore 2 GRANTED in part and DENIED in part, and deadlines are SET as follows: 3 • Discovery cutoff: January 8, 2018 4 • Dispositive motions: February 7, 2018 5 • Joint proposed pretrial order: March 9, 2018 6 IT IS SO ORDERED. 7 DATED: October 20, 2017 8 ______________________________________ NANCY J. KOPPE United States Magistrate Judge 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 2 In briefing the motion to extend, the parties provide argument regarding the appropriateness of certain discovery sought. The Court expresses no opinion herein on those issues. 2

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