Lawrence et al v. Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department et al

Filing 71

ORDER Re: 70 Stipulation to Extend Discovery Deadlines. Motion Hearing set for 9/4/2018 at 03:00 PM in LV Courtroom 3B before Magistrate Judge Nancy J. Koppe. Counsel for all parties shall appear at that hearing including for the federal Defendants. Signed by Magistrate Judge Nancy J. Koppe on 8/31/2018. (Copies have been distributed pursuant to the NEF - SLD)

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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

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DISTRICT OF NEVADA

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K.C., et al.,

Case No.: 2:16-cv-03039-JCM-NJK

Plaintiff(s),
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Order

v.
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LAS VEGAS METROPOLITAN POLICE
DEPARTMENT, et al.,
Defendant(s).

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Pending before the Court is a joint motion to extend discovery deadlines, including most

17 urgently the expert disclosure deadline currently set for September 6, 2018. Docket No. 70.1 The
18 Court hereby SETS a hearing on that motion for 3:00 p.m. on September 4, 2018, in Courtroom
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20 Court will hear argument on the motion generally, but the parties should be prepared to address in
21 particular the discovery efforts involving the federal Defendants since their appearance nearly
22 three months ago. See Docket No. 65; see also Ministerio Roca Solida v. U.S. Dept. of Fish &
23 Wildlife, 288 F.R.D. 500, 502 (D. Nev. 2013) (“The Federal Rules of Civil Procedure do not
24 provide for automatic or blanket stays of discovery when a potentially dispositive motion is
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The filing is fashioned as a “stipulation,” but it was not signed by federal Defendants who
have appeared in this case through the filing of a motion to dismiss. Therefore, the Court treats
27 the request as a joint motion. See Local Rule 7-1(c).
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The Court expresses no opinion herein as to the merits of the joint motion.
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1 pending”); Docket No. 54 at 5 (the deadlines in the scheduling order apply to “later-appearing
2 parties, unless the Court, on motion and for good cause shown, orders otherwise”).
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IT IS SO ORDERED.

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Dated: August 31, 2018
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Nancy J. Koppe
United States Magistrate Judge

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