Agha-Khan v. Wells Fargo Bank NA A US Bank et al

Filing 44

ORDER. IT IS ORDERED that 39 the Motion to Extend Time is GRANTED and Defendants Ocwen Financial Corp., Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., and Merscorp Holdings, Inc. shall have up to and including 4/1/17, to file a responsive pleading to Plaintiff's pro per complaint. Signed by Magistrate Judge Peggy A. Leen on 2/28/17. (Copies have been distributed pursuant to the NEF - ADR)

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Case 2:16-cv-02928-APG-PAL Document 39 Filed 02/27/17 Page 1 of 6 1 2 3 4 5 6 WRIGHT, FINLAY & ZAK, LLP Dana Jonathon Nitz, Esq. Nevada Bar No. 0050 YanXiong Li, Esq. Nevada Bar No. 12807 7785 W. Sahara Ave., Suite 200 Las Vegas, Nevada 89117 (702) 475-7964; Fax: (702) 946-1345 yli@wrightlegal.net Attorneys for OCWEN FINANCIAL CORP., MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC., MERSCORP HOLDINGS INC. 7 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT DISTRICT OF NEVADA 8 9 SALMA AGHA-KHAN, MD., an individual, 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 Case No.: 2:16-cv-02928-APG-PAL Plaintiff, vs. RENEWED MOTION TO EXTEND TIME TO RESPOND TO COMPLAINT WELLS FARGO BANK, NA, A US Bank; WELLS FARGO FINANCIAL NATIONAL BANK, A National Banking Association; WELLS FARGO HOME MORTGAGE, a Wells Fargo Bank, NA subsidiary; MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC., a Delaware agency/corporation, form unknown; MERSCORP HOLDINGS INC., holding/parent company of MERS Inc.; TBI MORTGAGE COMPANY, a mortgage company; GMAC MORTGAGE, LLC FKA GMAC MORTGAGE CORPORATION, a financial lending business; OCWEN FINANCIAL CORPORATION, a financial concern, form unknown; MARIN CONVEYANCING CORP AKA MARIN CONVEYANCING CORPORATION, a lending corporation form unknown; EXECUTIVE TRUSTEE SERVICES, LLC, a defunct Delaware company form unknown; FIRST AMERICAN TITLE COMPANY, a title agency form unknown; FIRST AMERICAN TITLE INSURANCE COMPANY, a title insurance company form unknown; ROUTH CRABTREE OLSEN PS, a law firm in California; EDWARD T. WEBER, an individual and attorney at Routh Crabtree Olsen PS; BRET P. RYAN, an individual and attorney at Rough Crabtree Olsen PS; JOHNATHAN J. DAMEN, an Individual and attorney at Routh Crabtree Olden PS; JEFF ROMIS AKA JEFFREY L. ROMIG, an individual; PATRICIA J. KRAUSE, an 1 ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Case 2:16-cv-02928-APG-PAL Document 39 Filed 02/27/17 Page 2 of 6 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 individual; GREENPOINT MORTGAGE FUNDING, INC., a mortgage company form unknown; SERVICELINK AKA SERVICELINK, LLC a business organization form unknown; LSI TITLE AGENCY INC., a title agency form unknown; CHICAGO TITLE COMPANY, a title company form unknown; FIDELITY NATIONAL DEFAULT SOLUTIONS, INC., a company form unknown; NATIONWIDE TITLE CLEARING, a title company form unknown; AMANDA ROSE JONES, an individual and Assistant Secretary for MERS Inc., KRISTOPHER JAMES SANDBERG, a Wells Fargo employee; and DOES 1 THROUGH 1000, INCLUSIVE, Defendants. 9 10 Pursuant to Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 6(b), Defendants, OCWEN FINANCIAL CORP., 11 MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC., MERSCORP HOLDINGS INC. 12 13 hereby request an order granting additional time, up to and including April 1, 2017, to file a responsive 14 pleading to Plaintiff’s pro per Complaint. Defendants have retained new counsel for joint defense of this 15 action, and are diligently working to complete the transition process. This is Defendants’ second request 16 for an extension of this deadline and is not presented for any dilatory or prejudicial purpose. 17 This Motion is based upon the attached points and authorities, the Declaration of Michael Hogue, 18 19 Esq., the pleadings and papers on file herein and any argument of counsel that may be considered at the 20 hearing on this Motion by the Court. 21 /// 22 /// 23 24 /// 25 /// 26 /// 27 /// 28 /// 2 ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Case 2:16-cv-02928-APG-PAL Document 39 Filed 02/27/17 Page 3 of 6 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 DATED this 28th day of February, 2017. WRIGHT, FINLAY & ZAK, LLP /s/ YanXiong Li, Esq.___________ Dana Jonathon Nitz, Esq. Nevada Bar No. 0050 YanXiong Li, Esq. Nevada Bar No. 12807 7785 W. Sahara Avenue, Suite 200 Las Vegas, Nevada 89117 Attorneys for OCWEN FINANCIAL CORP., MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC., MERSCORP HOLDINGS INC. 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 3 ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Case 2:16-cv-02928-APG-PAL Document 39 Filed 02/27/17 Page 4 of 6 POINTS AND AUTHORITIES 1 Plaintiff commenced this lawsuit on December 16, 2016, by filing his pro per Complaint (ECF 2 3 4 No. 1). The Complaint spans 75 pages, asserts 16 causes of action, and includes 236 separate factual allegations that require individual response. The Complaint identifies as defendants: Ocwen Financial 5 6 Corp. (“Ocwen”), Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc. (“MERS”), MERSCorp Holdings Inc. 7 (“Merscorp”), among the 26 separate individual and entity defendants named. This Court previously 8 granted Defendants an extension to respond to the Complaint up to and including March 1, 2017. 9 Defendants have since retained new counsel to further their joint defense, and are working to complete 10 the transition process. By this Motion, Defendants jointly request an extension of time to respond up to 11 12 13 and including April 1, 2017. This request is being made pursuant to F.R.C.P. 6(b)(1)(A) as the time period to respond to the Complaint has not yet passed for any of the Defendants. 14 15 16 Good cause exists to extend the time to respond to the pro per Complaint because of the transition of defense to new counsel. The requested time is needed for new counsel to investigate the facts and analyze the applicable law in order to prepare a response. Moreover, multiple defendants will need to 17 18 review and approve the substitution of attorney and response to Complaint before it can be filed. 19 Defendants submit that the additional time requested is reasonable and not intended to cause undue delay 20 or prejudice. 21 CONCLUSION 22 For these reasons, Defendants respectfully request an extension of the time to respond to 23 24 Plaintiff’s Complaint until April 1, 2017. 25 /// 26 /// 27 /// 28 4 ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Case 2:16-cv-02928-APG-PAL Document 39 Filed 02/27/17 Page 5 of 6 1 DATED this 28th day of February, 2017. WRIGHT, FINLAY & ZAK, LLP 2 3 __/s/ YanXiong Li, Esq. __________ Dana Jonathon Nitz, Esq. Nevada Bar No. 0050 YanXiong Li, Esq. Nevada Bar No. 12807 7785 W. Sahara Avenue, Suite 200 Las Vegas, Nevada 89117 Attorneys for OCWEN FINANCIAL CORP., MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC., MERSCORP HOLDINGS INC. 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 IT IS ORDERED that the Motion to Extend Time (ECF No. 39) is GRANTED and Defendants Ocwen Financial Corp., Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., and Merscorp Holdings, Inc. shall have up to and including April 1, 2017, to file a responsive pleading to Plaintiff's pro per complaint. 14 15 16 Dated: February 28, 2017 ______________________________ Peggy A. Leen United States Magistrate Judge 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 5 ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Case 2:16-cv-02928-APG-PAL Document 39 Filed 02/27/17 Page 6 of 6 CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE 1 2 I HEREBY CERTIFY that I am an employee of WRIGHT, FINLAY & ZAK, LLP and that I 3 electronically served the foregoing RENEWED MOTION TO EXTEND TIME TO RESPOND TO 4 COMPLAINT was made on the 28th day of February, 2017, to all parties and counsel as identified on 5 6 the Court-generated Notice of Electronic Filing and/or by depositing a true and correct copy of the same 7 in the U.S. Mail addressed as follows: 8 Salma Agha-Khan, M.D. 3751 Motor Ave., #34272 Las Angeles, CA 90034 9 10 11 12 _/s/ Kelli Nikole Wightman____________________ An Employee of WRIGHT, FINLAY & ZAK, LLP 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 6 ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

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