Davis v. Symetra Life Insurance Company, No. 2:2021cv00533 - Document 91 (W.D. Wash. 2024)

Court Description: ORDER granting Parties' 90 Stipulated MOTION to Modify Scheduling Order. Deadline to file Defendant's motion for summary judgment is 3/28/2024, deadline to file Defendant's Reply brief in support of motion to exclude expert opinion ( ECF 81 ) is 4/22/2024, deadline to file Plaintiff's Reply brief in support of class certification motion and any objection to Defendant's experts is 4/22/2024, rebuttal reports from Plaintiff's expert witnesses due 4/22/2024, deadline to file Plaintiff's opposition to Defendant's motion for summary judgment is 4/26/2024, deadline to file Defendant's Reply brief in support of motion for summary judgment is 5/17/2024. All other case deadlines will be determined after the Court issues its decision on class certification. Signed by District Judge Kymberly K. Evanson. (SB)

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Davis v. Symetra Life Insurance Company Doc. 91 Hon. Kymberly K. Evanson 1 2 3 4 5 6 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE WESTERN DISTRICT OF WASHINGTON AT SEATTLE 7 8 9 DENNIS E. DAVIS, individually and on behalf of all others similarly situated, Case No. 2:21-cv-00533-KKE 10 Plaintiff, 11 12 13 14 v. STIPULATION AND JOINT MOTION TO MODIFY SCHEDULING ORDER AND PROPOSED ORDER SYMETRA LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY, Noted on Motion Calendar: 3/20/2024 Defendant. 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 DENNIS E. DAVIS V. SYMETRA LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY No. 2:21-cv-00533-KKE Stip. & Joint Mot. to Modify Scheduling Order – Page 1 TOUSLEY BRAIN STEPHENS PLLC 1200 Fifth Avenue, Suite 1700 Seattle, Washington 98101 Dockets.Justia.com 1 Pursuant to Rule 16(b)(4), LCR 16(b), and this Court’s Chambers Procedures for Civil 2 Cases, Plaintiff Dennis Davis and Defendant Symetra Life Insurance Company jointly and 3 respectfully move this Court to enter a briefing schedule relating to Symetra’s forthcoming motion 4 for summary judgment and to modify the current scheduling order at ECF No. 57. 5 Symetra intends to file its motion for summary judgment on March 28, 2024. While this 6 Court’s Chambers Procedures section III encourages the Parties to coordinate cross-motions on 7 summary judgment, Plaintiff does not intend to file an early motion for summary judgment, both 8 because the one-way intervention rule, which Symetra has confirmed it will not waive, precludes 9 a ruling on any motion for summary judgment by Plaintiff until after this Court’s ruling on class 10 certification and any opt-out period expires, see, e.g., Centeno v. Quigley, No. C14-200 MJP, 2015 11 WL 432537, at *2–3 (W.D. Wash. Feb. 2, 2015), and because it would be inefficient for Plaintiff 12 to move affirmatively for summary judgment in favor of the putative class, prior to a ruling that 13 determines the actual scope of the class. Accordingly, while Plaintiff is not moving for summary 14 judgment at this time, he reserves his right to do so at the appropriate time. Plaintiff does not object 15 to Symetra filing a motion for summary judgment now but would object to Symetra later filing 16 another motion for summary judgment absent good cause if the grounds for the later summary 17 judgment motion were available to it at the time it first moved for summary judgment. See, e.g., 18 LCR 7(e)(3). Symetra believes Plaintiff’s objection is premature and, in any event, does not 19 concede to Plaintiff’s objection. The Court, however, need not resolve this issue at this juncture. 20 Good cause exists for the modification. Symetra believes that it will likely need three weeks 21 to adequately and thoroughly prepare its reply briefs in support of its motions to exclude expert 22 opinion (ECF No. 81) and for summary judgment, beyond the four days ordinarily provided by 23 LCR 7(d). Plaintiff does not object to this extension of time but requests that Plaintiff’s reply brief 24 in support of class certification remain due on the same day as Symetra’s reply in support of its 25 motion to exclude Plaintiff’s expert opinion supporting class certification. Additionally, due to the 26 overlapping briefing schedules, the Parties request that the usual deadlines for dispositive motions 27 be altered slightly to minimize concurrent briefing obligations on either Party. Moreover, the 28 DENNIS E. DAVIS V. SYMETRA LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY No. 2:21-cv-00533-KKE Stip. & Joint Mot. to Modify Scheduling Order – Page 2 TOUSLEY BRAIN STEPHENS PLLC 1200 Fifth Avenue, Suite 1700 Seattle, Washington 98101 1 2 Dated this 20th day of March, 2024 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 TOUSLEY BRAIN STEPHENS PLLC By: /s/ Rebecca L. Solomon Kim D. Stephens, P.S., WSBA #11984 Rebecca L. Solomon, WSBA #51520 1200 Fifth Avenue, Suite 1700 Seattle, Washington 98101 Tel: 206-682-5600 Fax: 206-682-2992 kstephens@tousley.com rsolomon@tousley.com STUEVE SIEGEL HANSON LLP Patrick J. Stueve (admitted pro hac vice) Lindsay Todd Perkins (admitted pro hac vice) Ethan M. Lange (admitted pro hac vice) David A. Hickey (admitted pro hac vice) 460 Nichols Road, Ste. 200 Kansas City, MO 64112 Tel: 816-714-7100 Fax: 816-714-7101 stueve@stuevesiegel.com perkins@stuevesiegel.com lange@stuevesiegel.com hickey@stuevesiegel.com SCHIRGER FEIERABEND, LLC John J. Schirger (admitted pro hac vice) Joseph M. Feierabend (admitted pro hac vice) 4520 Main Street, Ste. 1570 Kansas City, MO 64111 Tel: 816-561-6500 Fax: 816-561-6501 jschirger@millerschirger.com jfeierabend@millerschirger.com WILLKIE FARR & GALLAHER LLP By: /s/ Laura Geist Laura Geist, pro hac vice Yuhan Chi, pro hac vice Joshua Anderson, pro hac vice Xiaolin Chen, pro hac vice Naiara Toker, pro hac vice One Front Street San Francisco, CA 94111 Tel: (415) 858-7400 Fax: (415) 858-7599 Email: lgeist@willkie.com Email: ychi@willkie.com Email: jdanderson@willkie.com Email: schen2@willkie.com Email: ntoker@willkie.com KARR TUTTLE CAMPBELL Medora A. Marisseau, WSBA # 23114 701 Fifth Ave., Ste. 3300 Seattle, WA 98104 Tel: (206) 223-1313 Fax: (206) 682-7100 Email: mmarisseau@karrtuttle.com Counsel for Defendant SYMETRA LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY Counsel for Plaintiff DENNIS E. DAVIS 23 24 25 26 27 28 DENNIS E. DAVIS V. SYMETRA LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY No. 2:21-cv-00533-KKE Stip. & Joint Mot. to Modify Scheduling Order – Page 5 TOUSLEY BRAIN STEPHENS PLLC 1200 Fifth Avenue, Suite 1700 Seattle, Washington 98101

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