Microsoft Corporation v. Internal Revenue Service

Filing 60

ORDER granting in part Defendant's 59 Unopposed Motion for Extension of Time. The remaining deadline for the filing of IRS's motion for summary judgment is extended up to and including 4/29/2022. This will be the last extension. Signed by Judge Ricardo S. Martinez. (SB)

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  1 2 3 4 5 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT WESTERN DISTRICT OF WASHINGTON AT SEATTLE 6 7 8 9 10 MICROSOFT CORPORATION, Plaintiff, 11 v. 12 INTERNAL REVENUE SERVICE, 13 Case No. C15-369 RSM Case No. C15-850 RSM ORDER GRANTING IN PART SIXTH CONSENT MOTION REGARDING CASE SCHEDULE Defendant. 14 15 16 This matter comes before the Court on the parties’ sixth stipulated Motion to Amend the Case Schedule. Case No. C15-369, Dkt. #59. These cases, originally filed in 2015, have been 17 18 plagued with delays and stipulated continuances. In March of 2020, after a sixteen-month 19 period where no status report was filed, the Court set a case schedule with a deadline for 20 summary judgment on March 31, 2021. Four days before that deadline, the parties stipulated to 21 an extension of time to September 13, 2021. There were several more extensions. The latest 22 23 24 deadline for this filing was March 29, 2022. Four days before that deadline, the parties stipulate now to another extension of time. In the last Order, the Court said, “this will be the 25 last extension absent a more substantial showing of good cause or the scheduling of a 26 telephonic status conference.” Dkt. #58. 27 28 ORDER GRANTING IN PART SIXTH CONSENT MOTION REGARDING CASE SCHEDULE - 1   1 The latest stipulation contains minimal information about the status of this case. 2 However, it also indicates that counsel for the IRS has been dealing with a medical emergency 3 in his immediate family and “a separate ongoing personal matter.” Dkt. #59 at 2. The parties 4 request extending the deadline for the filing of the IRS’s motion for summary judgment to May 5 6 7 13, 2022. Id. The Court finds good cause to grant the instant unopposed Motion in part. The IRS has 8 given only minimal information about the progress of the case, and the personal and medical 9 issues of an individual attorney working for the IRS do not justify a seven-week extension. 10 11 12 The Court will instead extend the deadline to April 29, 2022. This will be the last extension. Having considered the briefing from the parties and the remainder of the record, the 13 Court hereby finds and ORDERS that the parties’ Sixth stipulated Motion to Amend the Case 14 Schedule, Dkt. #59, is GRANTED IN PART. The remaining deadline for the filing of IRS’s 15 motion for summary judgment is extended up to and including April 29, 2022, for both of the 16 above-captioned cases. 17 18 DATED this 30th day of March, 2022. 19 20 21 22 23 A RICARDO S. MARTINEZ CHIEF UNITED STATES DISTRICT JUDGE 24 25 26 27 28 ORDER GRANTING IN PART SIXTH CONSENT MOTION REGARDING CASE SCHEDULE - 2

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