Nichols v. Geico Insurance Company

Filing 198

ORDER re 197 Stipulated Motion to Extend Deadlines. The Parties are provided sixty (60) additional days to conduct mediation, with a new deadline of 1/15/2025. The Parties shall prepare and file a joint status report within thirty (30) days of mediation advising the Court of its outcome. If the Parties do not, for whatever reason, reach a resolution, they will propose a new case schedule and trial date in the aforementioned joint status report. Signed by Hon. S. Kate Vaughan. (MJV)

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1 2 3 4 5 6 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT WESTERN DISTRICT OF WASHINGTON AT SEATTLE 7 8 9 MERLE NICHOLS, on behalf of himself and All others similarly situated, 12 13 STIPULATED MOTION AND (PROPOSED) ORDER TO EXTEND CASE DEADLINES Plaintiff, 10 11 Case No. C18-1253-TL-SKV v. GEICO GENERAL INSURANCE COMPANY, a foreign automobile insurance Company, 14 Defendant. 15 16 17 18 19 I. STIPULATED MOTION Pursuant to Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 6(b) and LCR 7(d)(1), Defendant GEICO GENERAL INSURANCE COMPANY, a foreign automobile insurance company 20 (“Defendant”), and Plaintiff MERLE NICHOLS, on behalf of himself and the Nichols Class 21 (“Plaintiff”) (collectively, “the Parties”), hereby stipulate to and jointly request an extension of 22 the Court’s deadline to conduct a mediation. 23 24 25 In support of this stipulation, the Parties state as follows: 1. In its Order Striking Case Schedule and Trial Date entered on August 8, 2024 (Dkt. STIPULATED MOTION AND (PROPOSED) ORDER TO EXTEND CASE DEADLINES - 1 Case No. C18-1253-TL-SKV Williams, Kastner & Gibbs PLLC 601 Union Street, Suite 4100 Seattle, WA 98101-2380 (206) 628-6600 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 #195), the Court provided the Parties one hundred (100) days to conduct mediation. 2. The Parties scheduled mediation with Judge Chad Allred (ret.) for November 12, 2024. In preparation for that mediation date, the Parties completed various disclosures to facilitate constructive and candid negotiations. However, due to unforeseen scheduling and travel difficulties associated with obligations in unrelated cases for GEICO’s counsel, the Parties agreed to re-schedule the mediation. 3. Given the upcoming holidays and the travel required for GEICO’s counsel to 9 attend in-person, the Parties have reset the mediation to January 7, 2025. This is outside the 10 period prescribed in the Court’s Order, and thus, the Parties hereby request an additional sixty 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 (60) days to conduct mediation, with a deadline of January 15, 2025. 4. The requested extension is modest and will allow the Parties to explore resolution and/or constructively narrow the issues in dispute. Thus, regardless of the mediation’s outcome, it will serve the interests of judicial economy. 5. The Parties jointly seek the opportunity to conduct a thorough and meaningful mediation on January 7, 2025, and believe good cause justifies the resulting minimal delay. /// /// /// 22 23 24 25 STIPULATED MOTION AND (PROPOSED) ORDER TO EXTEND CASE DEADLINES - 2 Case No. C18-1253-TL-SKV Williams, Kastner & Gibbs PLLC 601 Union Street, Suite 4100 Seattle, WA 98101-2380 (206) 628-6600 1 2 DATED this __20th _ day of November, 2024. _/s/ Mark A. Trivett_____________________ BADGLEY MULLINS TURNER PLLC Duncan Calvert Turner Mark A. Trivett 19929 Ballinger Way NE STE 200 Seattle, WA 98155 Phone: (206) 621-6566 dturner@ badgleymullins.com mtrivett@badgleymullins.com ___/s/Stacy DeMass_____________________ WILLIAMS, KASTNER & GIBBS PLLC Rodney Umberger, WSBA # 24948 Stacy DeMass, WSBA # 45592 601 Union Street, Suite 4100 Seattle, WA 98101-2380 Telephone: (206) 628-6600 Fax: (206) 628-6611 rumberger@williamskastner.com sdemass@williamskastner.com 12 __________________________________ LAW OFFICE OF RANDALL C. JOHNSON Randall C. Johnson PO Box 15881 Seattle, WA 98115 Phone: (206) 890-0616 Rcjj.law@gmail.com 13 Attorneys for Plaintiff /s/ Kristen L. Wenger RIVKIN RADLER LLP John P. Marino (pro hac vice) Kristen L. Wenger (pro hac vice) 1301 Riverplace Blvd., 10th Floor Jacksonville, Florida 32202 Phone: (904) 792-8925 Facsimile: (904) 467-3461 john.marino@rivkin.com Kristen.wenger@rivkin.com 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 14 Attorneys for Defendant 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 STIPULATED MOTION AND (PROPOSED) ORDER TO EXTEND CASE DEADLINES - 3 Case No. C18-1253-TL-SKV Williams, Kastner & Gibbs PLLC 601 Union Street, Suite 4100 Seattle, WA 98101-2380 (206) 628-6600 1 2 3 4 5 6 II. SUBJOINED ORDER THE COURT, having considered the Parties’ Stipulated Motion to Extend Case Deadlines, and being fully advised, ORDERS that the Parties are provided sixty (60) additional days to conduct mediation, with a new deadline of January 15, 2025. The Parties shall prepare and file a joint status report within thirty (30) days of mediation advising the Court of its 7 outcome. If the Parties do not, for whatever reason, reach a resolution, they will propose a new 8 case schedule and trial date in the aforementioned joint status report. 9 Dated this 22nd day of November, 2024. 10 11 A 12 S. KATE VAUGHAN United States Magistrate Judge 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 STIPULATED MOTION AND (PROPOSED) ORDER TO EXTEND CASE DEADLINES - 4 Case No. C18-1253-TL-SKV Williams, Kastner & Gibbs PLLC 601 Union Street, Suite 4100 Seattle, WA 98101-2380 (206) 628-6600

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