Krasucki v. Nationstar Mortgage, LLC

Filing 12

ORDER granting in part and denying in part 11 Plaintiff's Motion for Extension of Time to respond to 9 Defendant's MOTION TO DISMISS FOR FAILURE TO STATE A CLAIM . RE-Noting Date 5/22/2015, re 9 Defendant's MOTION TO DISMISS FOR FAILURE TO STATE A CLAIM , by Judge James L. Robart.(MD, cc to pltf)

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1 2 3 4 5 6 7 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT WESTERN DISTRICT OF WASHINGTON AT SEATTLE 8 9 10 JOHN KRASUCKI, Plaintiff, 11 NATIONSTAR MORTGAGE, LLC, Defendant. 14 15 16 ORDER GRANTING IN PART AND DENYING IN PART PLAINTIFF’S MOTION FOR EXTENSION v. 12 13 CASE NO. C15-0229JLR I. INTRODUCTION Before the court is pro se Plaintiff John Krasucki’s motion for an extension of time 17 to respond to Defendant Nationstar Mortgage, LLC’s (“Nationstar”) motion to dismiss. 18 (Mot. (Dkt. # 11).) Mr. Krasucki filed his motion on April 20, 2015, the same day on 19 which his response was due, seeking an approximately five-week extension until May 24, 20 2015. (Id. at 1; see also Mot. to Dismiss (Dkt. # 9).) In support of this request, Mr. 21 Krasucki asserts that he is proceeding pro se, that he has yet to request an extension with 22 regard to Nationstar’s motion, and that his requested extension will not prejudice ORDER- 1 1 Nationstar. (Mot. at 1-2.) Having reviewed Mr. Krasucki’s motion, the balance of the 2 record, and the relevant law, the court denies Mr. Krasucki’s requested extension but 3 grants a more limited extension as described below. 4 5 II. BACKGROUND Mr. Krasucki filed this action on February 13, 2015, alleging claims for breach of 6 contract, violation of the Truth in Lending Act, 15 U.S.C. § 1601 et seq., violation of the 7 Real Estate Settlement Procedures Act, 12 U.S.C. § 2601 et seq., and declaratory relief. 8 (See Compl. (Dkt. # 1).) Although Nationstar’s deadline to answer or otherwise respond 9 to his complaint was March 10, 2015, Mr. Krasucki agreed to a three-week extension of 10 that deadline. (See Def.’s Mot. for Ext. (Dkt. # 5) at 1.) Pursuant to that agreement, 11 Nationstar filed an unopposed motion for an extension (id.), which the court granted 12 (3/6/2015 Order (Dkt. # 8)). On March 31, 2015, Nationstar filed its motion to dismiss. 13 (See Mot. to Dismiss.) 14 15 III. DISCUSSION Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 6(b)(1) authorizes the court to extend “for good 16 cause” the time to perform an act if the request is made before the original time to 17 perform the act expires. Fed. R. Civ. P. 6(b)(1). Here, Mr. Krasucki filed his motion for 18 an extension before the original time to respond to Nationstar’s motion to dismiss 19 expired; therefore, the “good cause” standard applies. See id. 20 The court finds that Mr. Krasucki has not shown good cause for a five-week 21 extension but that good cause exists for a four-week extension. As noted above, Mr. 22 Krasucki agreed to extend by three weeks Nationstar’s deadline to respond to his ORDER- 2 1 complaint. (See Def.’s Mot. for Ext. at 1.) Nationstar used that extension to prepare its 2 motion to dismiss. As such, the court finds that a similar extension of the time for Mr. 3 Krasucki to respond to the motion to dismiss is appropriate in the interests of fairness. In 4 addition, Mr. Krasucki is proceeding pro se; therefore, the court finds good cause to add 5 an additional week to the period of his extension. 6 7 IV. CONCLUSION For the foregoing reasons, the court GRANTS in part and DENIES in part Mr. 8 Krasucki’s motion for an extension (Dkt. # 11) and GRANTS Mr. Krasucki an additional 9 four (4) weeks in which to respond to Nationstar’s motion to dismiss. Mr. Krasucki’s 10 response to Nationstar’s motion to dismis is due by May 18, 2015. Accordingly, the 11 court DIRECTS the Clerk to renote Nationstar’s motion to dismiss for May 22, 2015. 12 Dated this 21st day of April, 2015. 13 15 A 16 JAMES L. ROBART United States District Judge 14 17 18 19 20 21 22 ORDER- 3

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