Greenley v. Kochava, Inc.
- Proceeding
- district
- Area
- civil
- Panel
- Cynthia Ann Bashant (author)
Analysis
The parties jointly moved for a six-month stay of the case deadlines to facilitate an upcoming mediation. The court granted the motion, extending the deadlines for motions to amend, class discovery, and class certification, and ordered a status report after mediation.
| What the court decided | The model |
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Granting the parties' joint motion to temporarily stay the proceedings and extend case deadlines.“Finding good cause, the Court GRANTS the parties’ Joint Motion.” | agree with court The court applied the standard that a stay is an exercise of discretion dependent on the circumstances and that the moving party bears the burden of showing justification. The parties demonstrated that a mediation was scheduled and that a stay would facilitate settlement by reducing litigation costs. The court found good cause and granted the stay, which is a standard and defensible exercise of discretion in this context. |
The order itself: sound — The order correctly identifies the legal standard for a stay of proceedings as an exercise of judicial discretion requiring a showing of good cause or justification. It cites appropriate Supreme Court authority (Landis, Nken, Virginian Ry.) to support this standard. The court finds that the parties met their burden by showing a scheduled mediation and the benefit of reducing litigation costs to facilitate settlement. The reasoning is concise but sufficient for a procedural stay order.
Opinion
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 9 SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 10 11 DAVID GREENLEY, Case No. 22-cv-1327-BAS-AHG 12 Plaintiff, ORDER GRANTING JOINT 13 v. MOTION TO TEMPORARILY STAY THE PROCEEDINGS 14 KOCHAVA, INC., (ECF No. 65) 15 Defendants. 16 17 18 Pending before the Court is the parties’ joint motion to temporarily stay the 19 proceedings in light of impending mediation. (ECF No. 65.) On March 14, 2024, the Court 20 set an updated scheduling order for this matter. (ECF No. 58.) Under the scheduling order, 21 motions to amend the pleadings are due on or before April 12, 2024; fact and class 22 discovery must be completed on or before July 1, 2024; and motions for class certification 23 must be filed on or before August 9, 2024. (Id.) The parties jointly move for a six month 24 stay in the proceedings with respect to these deadlines. (ECF No. 65.) 25 The parties aver that they have scheduled an in-person mediation for June 3, 2024 26 and that an extension will aid in facilitating a meaningful settlement because the ongoing 27 costs of litigation will reduce whatever settlement amount may be available to the parties. 28 1 ||Ud.) The parties note they will cancel the upcoming mediation if the Court does not grant 2 ||a stay in the proceedings. (/d.) 3 “T]he power to stay proceedings is incidental to the power inherent in every court 4 || to control disposition of the cases on its docket with economy of time and effort for itself, 5 || for counsel, and for litigants.” Landis v. N. Am. Co., 299 U.S. 248, 254 (1936). A stay is 6 || “‘an exercise of judicial discretion,’ and ‘[t]he propriety of its issue is dependent upon the 7 || circumstances of the particular case.’ The party requesting a stay bears the burden of 8 ||showing that the circumstances justify an exercise of that discretion.” Nken v. Holder, 556 9 || U.S. 418, 433-34 (2009) (alteration in original) (citations omitted) (quoting Virginian Ry. 10 || Co. v. United States, 272 U.S. 658, 672—73 (1926)). 11 Having read and considered the moving papers, the parties have satisfied their 12 burden of demonstrating the circumstances justify a stay in the proceedings. The Court 13 |}does not reach this conclusion lightly. While the scheduled mediation presents a 14 justification for a stay, the parties should be mindful of the cost of future extensions to the 15 || parties and to the Court’s time. 16 Finding good cause, the Court GRANTS the parties’ Joint Motion. The parties shall 17 || have leave to file motions to amend the pleadings on or before October 11, 2024. Class 18 || discovery is to be completed by January 10, 2025. Plaintiff must file a motion for class 19 || certification by February 14, 2025. Additionally, the parties are ORDERED to file a joint 20 status report notifying the Court of the status of the case following mediation no later than 21 || June 17, 2024. 22 IT IS SO ORDERED. 23 , {| 24 || DATED: April 8, 2024 Lin A (Bashan. 6 25 United States District Judge 26 27 28 ~_9.