Stevens v. Hanke et al

Filing 61

ORDER granting 60 Letter Motion to Stay. IT IS HEREBY ORDERED that discovery is stayed in this Action as to Rogers only, except that Plaintiff in this Action may engage in limited discovery regarding the location of the funds at issue in this Action; and IT IS FURTHER ORDERED that within seven days of the Court's resolution of Rogers's motion to dismiss in the Related Action, Rogers shall file a letter addressing whether he seeks a continuation of the stay in this Action. (Signed by Judge John P. Cronan on 1/6/21) (yv)

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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK
MARTIN JOHN STEVENS,
Plaintiff,
-againstALAN J. HANKE, IOLO GLOBAL LLC,
GUARANTEE INVESTMENT TRUST,
SHERRY SIMS, SIDNEY MILLS ROGERS
III, AMY ROY-HAEGER and JOHN
DOES 1-100

ORDER
20-CV-8181 (JPC)

Defendants.

WHEREAS on December 11, 2020, Defendant Sidney Rogers Mills III (“Rogers”) moved
in the related action, Al Thani v. Hanke, No. 20 Civ. 04765 (JPC) (the “Related Action”), to stay
discovery as to Rogers only pending the Court’s resolution of Rogers’s motion to dismiss filed on
December 11, 2020 in that Action;
WHEREAS by Order dated December 11, 2020, the Court stayed Defendants’ time to
answer in the above-captioned matter (“this Action”) until fourteen days after the date of entry of
the Court’s decision on, inter alia, Rogers’s motion to dismiss in the Related Action;
WHEREAS by letter dated December 15, 2020 (ECF No. 54), Rogers requested leave to
move to stay discovery in this Action as to him only;
WHEREAS by Order dated December 18, 2020 (ECF No. 55), the Court granted Rogers
leave to serve the aforementioned motion to stay, but only as soon as, and no later than fourteen
days after, the Court rendered its decision on the motion to stay in the Related Action;
WHEREAS by Order dated January 4, 2021, the Court granted in part Rogers’s motion to
stay filed in the Related Action to the extent of staying discovery as to Rogers, except that plaintiff
in the Related Action may engage in limited discovery regarding the location of the funds at issue

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in that Action;
WHEREAS Rogers has shown good cause for a stay of discovery as to him only in this
Action for the reasons stated in the Court’s January 4, 2021 Order in the Related Action and for
the reasons discussed at the January 6, 2021 Initial Pretrial Conference in this Action;
IT IS HEREBY ORDERED that discovery is stayed in this Action as to Rogers only,
except that Plaintiff in this Action may engage in limited discovery regarding the location of the
funds at issue in this Action; and
IT IS FURTHER ORDERED that within seven days of the Court’s resolution of Rogers’s
motion to dismiss in the Related Action, Rogers shall file a letter addressing whether he seeks a
continuation of the stay in this Action.
Dated: New York, New York
January 6, 2021

_______________________________
JOHN P. CRONAN
United States District Judge

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