Joyce v. Amazon.com Inc et al, No. 2:2022cv00617 - Document 74 (W.D. Wash. 2022)

Court Description: ORDER granting Parties' 73 Stipulated MOTION for Leave to File Over-Length Briefing with Respect to Defendants' Motion to Dismiss Consolidated Class Action Complaint. Defendants are granted leave to file an opening brief for their forthco ming motion to dismiss the Consolidated Class Action Complaint with an additional twenty-one (21) pages, for a total of forty-five (45) pages; Plaintiffs are granted leave to file an opposition brief with an additional twenty-one (21) pages, for a total of forty-five (45) pages; and Defendants are granted leave to file a reply brief with an additional ten (10) pages, for a total of twenty-two (22) pages. Signed by Judge John H. Chun. (SB)

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Joyce v. Amazon.com Inc et al Doc. 74 Case 2:22-cv-00617-JHC Document 74 Filed 11/08/22 Page 1 of 6 THE HONORABLE JOHN H. CHUN 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT WESTERN DISTRICT OF WASHINGTON AT SEATTLE 8 9 SONNY JOYCE, Individually and on Behalf 10 of All Others Similarly Situated, (CONSOLIDATED CASE) 11 12 Case No.: 2:22-cv-00617-JHC Plaintiff, v. 13 AMAZON.COM, INC., ANDREW R. JASSY, JEFFREY P. BEZOS, BRIAN T. 14 OLSAVSKY, DAVID A. ZAPOLSKY, and NATE SUTTON, 15 Defendants, 16 STIPULATED MOTION FOR LEAVE TO FILE OVER-LENGTH BRIEFING WITH RESPECT TO DEFENDANTS’ MOTION TO DISMISS CONSOLIDATED CLASS ACTION COMPLAINT NOTED ON MOTION CALENDAR: November 7, 2022 17 ASBESTOS WORKERS PHILADELPHIA 18 WELFARE AND PENSION FUND, on behalf of itself and all others similarly situated, 19 Plaintiff, 20 v. 21 AMAZON.COM, INC., ANDREW R. JASSY, 22 BRIAN T. OLSAVSKY, and DAVID 23 FILDES, 24 Defendants. 25 26 27 28 STIPULATED MOTION TO FILE OVERLENGTH BRIEFING CASE NO.: 2:22-CV-00617-JHC FENWICK & WEST LLP 1191 SECOND AVENUE, 10TH FLOOR SEATTLE, WASHINGTON 98101 Dockets.Justia.com Case 2:22-cv-00617-JHC Document 74 Filed 11/08/22 Page 2 of 6 1 DETECTIVES ENDOWMENT 2 ASSOCIATION ANNUITY FUND, 3 Individually and On Behalf of All Others Similarly situated, 4 Plaintiff, 5 v. 6 AMAZON.COM, INC., ANDREW R. JASSY, 7 BRIAN T. OLSAVSKY, and DAVID FILDES, 8 Defendants. 9 10 11 Pursuant to Local Rule 7(f), Defendants Amazon.com, Inc., Jeffrey P. Bezos, Andrew R. 12 Jassy, Brian T. Olsavsky, David A. Zapolsky, Nate Sutton, and David Fildes, and Lead Plaintiffs 13 Universal-Investment-Gesellschaft mbH, Universal-Investment-Luxembourg S.A., Menora 14 Mivtachim Insurance Ltd., Menora Mivtachim Pensions and Gemel Ltd., The Phoenix Insurance 15 Company, Ltd., and The Phoenix Provident Pension Fund Ltd., and Plaintiffs Asbestos Workers 16 Philadelphia Welfare and Pension Fund, and Detectives Endowment Association Annuity Fund 17 respectfully request that the Court grant the parties leave to file over-length briefing in connection 18 with Defendants’ forthcoming motion to dismiss the Consolidated Class Action Complaint (the 19 “Consolidated Complaint”) (Dkt. No. 70). 20 On August 17, 2022, pursuant to a stipulation between the parties, this Court ordered the 21 consolidation of three putative securities class actions: (i) Joyce v. Amazon.com, Inc., et al., 2:2222 cv-00617 (“Joyce”); (ii) Asbestos Workers Philadelphia Welfare and Pension Fund v. 23 Amazon.com, Inc., et al., 2:22-cv-00934 (“Asbestos Workers”); and (iii) Detectives Endowment 24 Association Annuity Fund v. Amazon.com, Inc., et al., 2:22-cv-00950-JHC (“Detectives”). (See 25 Consolidation Order, Dkt. No. 58.) The claims in Joyce arose from alleged misrepresentations 26 and omissions concerning Amazon’s alleged use of third-party seller data (the “Third Party Seller 27 Allegations”); the claims in Asbestos Workers and Detectives arose from alleged 28 STIPULATED MOTION TO FILE OVERLENGTH BRIEFING CASE NO.: 2:22-CV-00617-JHC -1- FENWICK & WEST LLP 1191 SECOND AVENUE, 10TH FLOOR SEATTLE, WASHINGTON 98101 Case 2:22-cv-00617-JHC Document 74 Filed 11/08/22 Page 3 of 6 1 misrepresentations and omissions concerning the capacity of Amazon’s fulfillment network (the 2 “Capacity Allegations). (See id.) 3 Plaintiffs’ 173-page Consolidated Complaint asserts claims for alleged violations of 4 Section 10(b) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (the “Exchange Act”) and associated Rule 5 10b-5, and Section 20(a) of the Exchange Act. The 532 paragraphs in the Consolidated Complaint 6 allege 48 misrepresentations and omissions concerning the Third Party Seller Allegations and 10 7 additional misrepresentations and omissions concerning the Capacity Allegations. In anticipation 8 of Defendants’ motion to dismiss, counsel for the parties met and conferred regarding the 9 appropriate number of pages for the parties to adequately brief that motion. Given the breadth and 10 complexity of the allegations, claims, and legal arguments involved, and the consolidation of three 11 cases resulting in the Consolidated Complaint, the parties agree and submit that the standard page 12 limits under Local Rule 7(e) will not allow the parties to adequately cover all of the issues. 13 Accordingly, the parties respectfully request that the Court modify the page limitations for the 14 briefing associated with Defendants’ forthcoming motion to dismiss as follows: 15 Briefing Additional pages requested Total page limit 16 Defendants’ opening brief 21 45 17 Plaintiffs’ opposition brief 21 45 18 Defendants’ reply brief 10 22 19 20 Dated: November 7, 2022 21 Respectfully submitted, FENWICK & WEST LLP 22 By: /s/ Brian D. Buckley Brian D. Buckley, WSBA No. 26423 1191 Second Avenue, 10th Floor Seattle, WA 98101 Telephone: 206.389.4510 Email: bbuckley@fenwick.com 23 24 25 26 27 28 STIPULATED MOTION TO FILE OVERLENGTH BRIEFING CASE NO.: 2:22-CV-00617-JHC -2- FENWICK & WEST LLP 1191 SECOND AVENUE, 10TH FLOOR SEATTLE, WASHINGTON 98101 Case 2:22-cv-00617-JHC Document 74 Filed 11/08/22 Page 4 of 6 PAUL, WEISS, RIFKIND, WHARTON & GARRISON LLP 1 2 Daniel J. Kramer Audra J. Soloway Daniel S. Sinnreich 1285 Avenue of the Americas New York, NY 10019 Telephone: 212.373.3000 Email: dkramer@paulweiss.com asoloway@paulweiss.com dsinnreich@paulweiss.com 3 4 5 6 7 Martha L. Goodman 2001 K Street NW Washington, DC 20006 Telephone: 202.223.7341 Email: mgoodman@paulweiss.com 8 9 10 Attorneys for Defendants 11 BRESKIN, JOHNSON & TOWNSEND, PLLC 12 13 16 By: /s/ Roger M. Townsend Roger M. Townsend, WSBA No. 25525 1000 Second Avenue, Suite 3670 Seattle, WA 98104 Telephone: 206.652.8660 Email: rtownsend@bjtlegal.com 17 MOTLEY RICE LLC 14 15 18 Gregg S. Levin William S. Norton Joshua C. Littlejohn Christopher F. Moriarty 28 Bridgeside Blvd. Mt. Pleasant, SC 29464 Telephone: 843.216.9000 Email: glevin@motleyrice.com bnorton@motleyrice.com jlittlejohn@motleyrice.com cmoriarty@motleyrice.com 19 20 21 22 23 24 POMERANTZ LLP 25 Jeremy A. Lieberman Emma Gilmore Dolgora Dorzhieva Villi Shteyn 600 Third Avenue New York, NY 10016 26 27 28 STIPULATED MOTION TO FILE OVERLENGTH BRIEFING CASE NO.: 2:22-CV-00617-JHC -3- FENWICK & WEST LLP 1191 SECOND AVENUE, 10TH FLOOR SEATTLE, WASHINGTON 98101 Case 2:22-cv-00617-JHC Document 74 Filed 11/08/22 Page 5 of 6 Telephone: Email: 1 212.661.1100 jalieberman@pomlaw.com 2 egilmore@pomlaw.com ddorzhieva@pomlaw.com vshteyn@pomlaw.com 3 4 Orly Guy Eitan Lavie Ariel Shannon 4, 34th Floor Givatayim, Israel 5320047 Telephone: +972 (0) 3 624 0240 Email: oguy@pomlaw.com eitan@pomlaw.com 5 6 7 8 BERNSTEIN LITOWITZ BERGER & GROSSMANN LLP 9 James A. Harrod Adam Hollander Brendan Walden 1251 Avenue of the Americas New York, NY 10020 Telephone: 212.554.1400 Email: jim.harrod@blbglaw.com adam.hollander@blbglaw.com brendan.walden@blbglaw.com 10 11 12 13 14 BARRACK, RODOS & BACINE 15 Stephen R. Basser Samuel M. Ward 600 West Broadway, Suite 900 San Diego, CA 92101 Telephone: 619.230.0800 Email: sbasser@barrack.com sward@barrack.com 16 17 18 19 Jeffrey A. Barrack 3300 Two Commerce Square 2001 Market Street Philadelphia, PA 19103 Telephone: 215.963.0600 Email: jbarrack@barrack.com 20 21 22 23 Attorneys for Plaintiffs 24 25 26 27 28 STIPULATED MOTION TO FILE OVERLENGTH BRIEFING CASE NO.: 2:22-CV-00617-JHC -4- FENWICK & WEST LLP 1191 SECOND AVENUE, 10TH FLOOR SEATTLE, WASHINGTON 98101 Case 2:22-cv-00617-JHC Document 74 Filed 11/08/22 Page 6 of 6 ORDER 1 2 THIS MATTER comes before the Court, pursuant to Local Rule 7(f), on the Stipulated 3 Motion For Leave To File Over-Length Briefing With Respect To Defendant’s Motion To Dismiss 4 Consolidated Class Action Complaint (“Stipulated Motion”), filed jointly by Defendants 5 Amazon.com, Inc., Jeffrey P. Bezos, Andrew R. Jassy, Brian T. Olsavsky, David A. Zapolsky, 6 Nate Sutton, and David Fildes, and Plaintiffs Universal-Investment-Gesellschaft mbH, Universal7 Investment-Luxembourg S.A., Menora Mivtachim Insurance Ltd., Menora Mivtachim Pensions 8 and Gemel Ltd., The Phoenix Insurance Company, Ltd., The Phoenix Provident Pension Fund 9 Ltd., Asbestos Workers Philadelphia Welfare and Pension Fund, and Detectives Endowment 10 Association Annuity Fund. The Stipulated Motion requests that the Court grant the parties leave 11 to file briefing with respect to Defendants’ forthcoming motion to dismiss that exceeds the standard 12 page limitations under Local Rule 7(e). 13 Having reviewed the parties’ Stipulated Motion, it is HEREBY ORDERED that: 14 The parties’ Stipulated Motion is GRANTED. Defendants are granted leave to file an 15 opening brief for their forthcoming motion to dismiss the Consolidated Class Action Complaint 16 with an additional twenty-one (21) pages, for a total of forty-five (45) pages; Plaintiffs are granted 17 leave to file an opposition brief with an additional twenty-one (21) pages, for a total of forty-five 18 (45) pages; and Defendants are granted leave to file a reply brief with an additional ten (10) pages, 19 for a total of twenty-two (22) pages. 20 SO ORDERED. 21 8th day of November, 2022. Dated this _____ A 22 _____________________________________ THE HONORABLE JOHN H. CHUN UNITED STATES DISTRICT JUDGE 23 24 25 26 27 28 STIPULATED MOTION TO FILE OVERLENGTH BRIEFING CASE NO.: 2:22-CV-00617-JHC -5- FENWICK & WEST LLP 1191 SECOND AVENUE, 10TH FLOOR SEATTLE, WASHINGTON 98101

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