American Airlines Inc v. Travelport Limited et al

Filing 260

Joint MOTION to Extend Time of deadlines to exchange expert reports filed by American Airlines Inc, Orbitz Worldwide, LLC, Travelport Limited, Travelport, LP with Brief/Memorandum in Support. (Attachments: #1 Brief in Support) (Friedman, Walker)

IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF TEXAS
FORT WORTH DIVISION

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AMERICAN AIRLINES, INC.,
Plaintiff,

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Case No. 4: ll-cv-244-Y

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vs.
TRAVELPORT LIMITED, et aI.,
Defendants.

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BRIEF IN SUPPORT OF JOINT MOTION BY PLAINTIFF AMERICAN
AIRLINES, INC. AND DEFENDANTS TRAVELPORT LIMITED,
TRAVELPORT, LP, AND ORBITZ WORLDWIDE LLC
TO EXTEND DEADLINES TO EXCHANGE EXPERT REPORTS
Plaintiff American Airlines, Inc. ("American") and Defendants Travelport Limited and
Travelport, LP (collectively "Travelport"), and Orbitz Worldwide, LLC ("Orbitz") seek a twomonth extension of the existing expert disclosure deadlines, so as to realign the expert disclosure
schedule with the rest of the schedule now that the Court has moved several other dates in the
Initial Scheduling Order by approximately two months. (See Order Granting in Part and
Denying in Part Motion to Extend [Doc. 245].)
On January 30, 2012, all parties filed an agreed motion stipulating to extend the expert
disclosure deadlines in the Initial Scheduling Order by approximately two months [Doc. 208].
The purpose of this motion was to make the parties' initial expert disclosures due close to the
end of the fact discovery period, rather than in the middle of discovery, when key depositions
would still be outstanding, and indeed document productions would still be ongoing. The Court
granted the motion on January 31, 2012 [Doc. 209].

On February 28, 2012, the Court issued an order [Doc. 245] extending most remaining
deadlines - including the fact discovery deadlines - by two months. In light of the parties' prior
stipulation, however, the order did not adjust the expert disclosure deadlines. The Court's
February 28 order thus recreated the situation that led to the parties' stipulation to move the
expert disclosure deadlines in the first place: under the current schedule, the parties' initial
expert disclosures will be due months before fact discovery is substantially complete,
Accordingly, American, Travelport, and Orbitz respectfully request that the current
expert disclosure deadlines be extended by two months, so that they will fall where the parties
previously stipulated to put them in relation to other deadlines. If this motion is granted, expert
disclosures for each party plaintiff! will be due June 15,2012, expert disclosures for each party
defendant will be due on July 16,2012, and rebuttal expert disclosures will be due August 15,
2012. The requested extension will not affect any of the other dates in the schedule. Consistent
with Local Rule 7.1 (c), a proposed order accompanies this motion.

! Travelport agrees that it is a "party plaintiff' with respect to its counterclaims.

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Dated: March 14,2012
Respectfully submitted,
/s/ Yolanda C. Garcia
Yolanda C. Garcia
State Bar No. 24012457
Michelle Hartmann
State Bar No. 24032401
WElL, GOTSHAL & MANGES LLP
200 Crescent Court, Suite 300
Dallas, TX 75201-6950
214.746.7700
214.746.7777 (Fax)
Bill Bogle
State Bar No. 02561000
Roland K. Johnson
State Bar No. 00000084
HARRIS, FINLEY & BOGLE, P.C.
777 Main Street, Suite 3600
Fort Worth, TX 76102
817.870.8700
817.332.6121 (Fax)
R. Paul Yetter
State Bar No. 22154200
Anna Rotman
State Bar No. 24046761
YETTER COLEMAN LLP
909 Fannin, Suite 3600
Houston, TX 77010
713.632.8000
113.632.8002 (Fax)
Of Counsel:
Richard A. Rothman
James W. Quinn
WElL, GOTSHAL & MANGES LLP
767 Fifth Avenue
New York, NY 10153
212.310.8426
212.310-8285 (Fax)

/s/ Michael 1. Weiner
Michael 1. Weiner
[e-mail]
DECHERTLLP
1095 Avenue of the Americas
New York, NY 10036-6797
212.698.3608
212.698.3599 (Fax)
Mike Cowie
[e-mail]
Craig Falls
craig. [e-mail]
DECHERTLlp
1775 I Street, NW
Washington, D.C. 20006-2401
202.261.3300
202.261.3333 (Fax)
Carolyn H. Feeney
[e-mail]
Justin N. Pentz
[e-mail]
DECHERTLLP
2929 Arch Street
Philadelphia, PA 19104
215.994.4000
215.994.2222 (Fax)
Walker C. Friedman
State Bar No. 07472500
[e-mail]
Christian D. Tucker
State Bar No. 00795690
[e-mail]
FRIEDMAN, SUDER & COOKE, P.C.
Tindall Square Warehouse No.1
604 East 4th Street, Suite 200
Fort Worth, TX 76102
817.334.0400
817.334.0401 (Fax)

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MJ. Moltenbrey
DEWEY & LEBOEUF LLP
1101 New York Ave. NW
Washington, D.C. 20005
202.346.8738
202.346.8102 (Fax)
Attorneys for Plaintiff
American Airlines, Inc.

lsi Christopher S. Yates
Christopher S. Yates
Chris. [e-mail]
Daniel M. Wall
Dan. [e-mail]
Brendan A. McShane
[e-mail]
LATHAM & WATKINS LLP
505 Montgomery Street, Suite 2000
San Francisco, CA 94111-6538
Telephone: [phone]
Facsimile: [phone]

John T. Schriver
[e-mail]
Paul E. Chronis
[e-mail]
DUANE MORRIS LLP
190 South LaSalle Street, Suite 3700
Chicago, IL 60603-3433
312.499.6700
312.499.6701 (Fax)
Faith E. Gay
[e-mail]
Steig D. Olson
[e-mail]
QUINN EMANUEL URQUHART &
SULLIVAN, LLP
51 Madison Avenue, 22nd Floor
New York, NY 10010
212.849.7000
212.849.7100 (Fax)
Attorneys for Defendants
Travelport Limited and Travelport, LP

John 1. Little
Texas State Bar No. 12424230
[e-mail]
LITTLE PEDERSEN FANKHAUSER
LLP
901 Main Street, Suite 4110
Dallas, TX 75202-3714
Telephone: [phone]
Facsimile: [phone]
Attorneys for Defendant
Orbitz Worldwide, LLC

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CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE
I hereby certify that on the 14th day of March, 2012, I electronically filed the foregoing
document with the clerk of the court for the U.S. District Court, Northern District of Texas, Fort
Worth Division, using the electronic case filing system of the court. The electronic case filing
system sent a "Notice of Electronic Filing" to the attorneys of record who have consented in
writing to accept this Notice as service of this document by electronic means.

/s/ Walker C. Friedman
Walker C. Friedman

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