Sequiera et al v. United States Department of Homeland Security et al, No. 4:2022cv07996 - Document 40 (N.D. Cal. 2023)
Court Description: ORDER GRANTING 39 STIPULATION Re: Money Transfer Defendants' Deadline to Respond to Plaintiffs' First Amended Complaint: Motions due by 2/24/2023; Responses due by 4/7/2023; and Replies due by 4/21/2023. Signed by Judge Haywood S. Gilliam, Jr. on 1/26/2023. (ndr, COURT STAFF) (Filed on 1/26/2023)
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Sequiera et al v. United States Department of Homeland Security et al Doc. 40 Case 4:22-cv-07996-HSG Document 40 Filed 01/26/23 Page 1 of 6 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 Rafey Balabanian (SBN 315962) rbalabanian@edelson.com Yaman Salahi (SBN 288752) ysalahi@edelson.com P. Solange Hilfinger-Pardo (SBN 320055) shilfingerpardo@edelson.com Edelson PC 150 California Street, 18th Floor San Francisco, California 94111 Tel: 415.212.9300 Fax: 415.373.9435 Sejal Zota (pro hac vice) sejal@justfutureslaw.org Dinesh McCoy (pro hac vice) dinesh@justfutureslaw.org Daniel Werner (SBN 322310) daniel@justfutureslaw.org Just Futures Law 95 Washington Street, Suite 104-149 Canton, MA 02021 Tel: 617.812.2822 12 Attorneys for Plaintiffs and the proposed Classes 13 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA OAKLAND DIVISION 14 15 16 17 NELSON SEQUEIRA, ORSAY ALEGRIA, and ISMAEL CORDERO, individually and on behalf of all others similarly situated, 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 Case No. 4:22-cv-07996-HSG Hon. Haywood S. Gilliam, Jr. JOINT STIPULATION AND ORDER RE: MONEY TRANSFER BUSINESS DEFENDANTS’ DEADLINE TO RESPOND TO PLAINTIFFS’ FIRST AMENDED COMPLAINT Plaintiffs, v. U.S. DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY; U.S. IMMIGRATION & CUSTOMS ENFORCEMENT; WESTERN UNION FINANCIAL SERVICES, INC., a Colorado corporation; CONTINENTAL EXCHANGE SOLUTIONS, INC., a Kansas corporation, d/b/a RIA FINANCIAL SERVICES and AFEX MONEY EXPRESS; VIAMERICAS CORPORATION, a Delaware Corporation; and DOLEX DOLLAR EXPRESS, INC., a Texas corporation, Action Filed: December 12, 2022 Trial Date: None Set 26 27 28 Defendants. -1JOINT STIPULATION RE: MONEY TRANSFER BUSINESS DEFENDANTS’ DEADLINES TO RESPOND TO FAC Case No. 22-cv-07996-HSG Dockets.Justia.com Case 4:22-cv-07996-HSG Document 40 Filed 01/26/23 Page 2 of 6 1 2 3 4 STIPULATION WHEREAS, Plaintiffs Nelson Sequeira, Orsay Alegria, Ismael Cordero and Raul Lopez (“Plaintiffs”) filed their complaint on December 12, 2022, see Docket No. 1; WHEREAS, Plaintiffs and each of the then-named Money Transfer Business Defendants 5 agreed to extend those Defendants’ deadlines to respond to the Complaint to February 24, 2023, see 6 Docket Nos. 19 (Dolex), 20 (Viamericas), 21 (Continental), and 31 (The Western Union Company); 7 WHEREAS, subsequently, counsel for The Western Union Company (“TWUC”) advised 8 Plaintiffs of their view that this Court lacked personal jurisdiction over TWUC because Plaintiffs 9 had transacted with TWUC’s subsidiary, Western Union Financial Services, Inc. (“WUFSI”); 10 11 WHEREAS, based on TWUC’s counsel’s representations (but without conceding any legal positions), Plaintiffs agreed to substitute WUFSI as a named Defendant in lieu of TWUC; 12 WHEREAS, Plaintiffs effectuated that substitution by filing a First Amended Complaint as 13 of right pursuant to Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 15(a)(1) on January 24, 2023, see Docket No. 14 38, wherein the following additional changes were made: Mr. Raul Lopez was removed as a named 15 plaintiff, the spelling of Mr. Nelson Sequeira’s name was corrected, and allegations with information 16 based on recent news reports were added; and, 17 WHEREAS, Plaintiffs and counsel for the Money Transfer Business Defendants have met 18 and conferred regarding a proposed schedule for these Defendants’ responses to the First Amended 19 Complaint, as well as a briefing schedule should any of the Money Transfer Business Defendants 20 respond with a motion filed under Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 12. 21 22 23 24 BASED ON THE FOREGOING, AND PURSUANT TO LOCAL CIVIL RULE 6- 1(b), THE UNDERSIGNED PARTIES HEREBY STIPULATE AND AGREE: The schedule should be revised as follows for Plaintiffs and the Money Transfer Business Defendants: 25 • Deadline to Respond to First Amended Complaint: February 24, 2023; 26 • Plaintiffs’ Deadline to Respond to Motion to Dismiss: April 7, 2023; and 27 • Defendants’ Reply in Support of Motion to Dismiss: April 21, 2023. 28 -2JOINT STIPULATION RE: MONEY TRANSFER BUSINESS DEFENDANTS’ DEADLINES TO RESPOND TO FAC Case No. 22-cv-07996-HSG Case 4:22-cv-07996-HSG Document 40 Filed 01/26/23 Page 3 of 6 1 2 SO STIPULATED. 3 4 Dated: January 25, 2023 5 6 7 8 9 10 By: /s/ Yaman Salahi Rafey Balabanian (SBN 315962) rbalabanian@edelson.com Yaman Salahi (SBN 288752) ysalahi@edelson.com P. Solange Hilfinger-Pardo (SBN 320055) shilfingerpardo@edelson.com EDELSON PC 150 California Street, 18th Floor San Francisco, California 94111 Tel: 415.212.9300 Fax: 415.373.9435 11 Sejal Zota (pro hac vice) sejal@justfutureslaw.org Dinesh McCoy (pro hac vice) dinesh@justfutureslaw.org Daniel Werner (SBN 322310) daniel@justfutureslaw.org JUST FUTURES LAW 95 Washington Street, Suite 104-149 Canton, MA 02021 Tel: 617.812.2822 12 13 14 15 16 17 Attorneys for Individual and Representative Plaintiffs Nelson Sequeira, Orsay Alegria, and Ismael Cordero 18 19 20 Dated: January 25, 2023 PILLSBURY WINTHROP SHAW PITTMAN LLP 21 22 By: 23 24 /s/ Nathan M. Spatz Robert L. Wallan Nathan M. Spatz Christopher M. Butler Jordan Rhodes 25 Attorneys for Defendant Continental Exchange Solutions, Inc., d/b/a Ria Financial Services 26 27 28 -3JOINT STIPULATION RE: MONEY TRANSFER BUSINESS DEFENDANTS’ DEADLINES TO RESPOND TO FAC Case No. 22-cv-07996-HSG Case 4:22-cv-07996-HSG Document 40 Filed 01/26/23 Page 4 of 6 1 Dated: January 25, 2023 /s/ Sheila A.G. Armbrust Sheila A.G. Armbrust (SBN 265998) sarmbrust@sidley.com Hille Sheppard (pro hac vice) hsheppard@sidley.com Stephen Chang (SBN 312580) stephen.chang@sidley.com SIDLEY AUSTIN LLP 2 3 4 5 6 Attorneys for Defendant Western Union Financial Services, Inc. 7 8 Dated: January 25, 2023 /s/ Kristin Madigan Warrington S. Parker (SBN 148003) wparker@crowell.com Kristin J. Madigan (SBN 233436) kmadigan@crowell.com Jacob Canter (SBN 324330) jcanter@crowell.com CROWELL & MORING LLP 3 Embarcadero Center, 26th Floor San Francisco, CA94111 Telephone: 415.986.2800 Facsimile: 415.986.2827 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 Jennifer S. Romano (SBN 195953) jromano@crowell.com CROWELL & MORING LLP 515 South Flower Street, 40th Fl. Los Angeles, CA 90071 Telephone: 213.622.4750 Facsimile: 213.622.2690 16 17 18 19 Attorneys for Defendant Viamericas Corporation 20 21 22 Dated: January 25, 2023 /s/ Daniel B. Chammas Daniel B Chammas (SBN 204825) dchammas@fordharrison.com Ford & Harrison LLP 350 South Grand Avenue, Suite 2300 Los Angeles, CA 90071 Telephone: (213) 237-2400 Facsimile: (213) 237-2401 23 24 25 26 27 Attorneys for Defendant, DOLEX DOLLAR 28 -4JOINT STIPULATION RE: MONEY TRANSFER BUSINESS DEFENDANTS’ DEADLINES TO RESPOND TO FAC Case No. 22-cv-07996-HSG Case 4:22-cv-07996-HSG Document 40 Filed 01/26/23 Page 5 of 6 EXPRESS, INC. 1 2 3 ATTESTATION OF ELECTRONIC SIGNATURE 4 I hereby attest that pursuant to N.D. Cal. Civil L.R. 5-1(h)(3), I have obtained authorization 5 from the above signatories representing Defendants to file the above-referenced document, and that 6 the above signatories concur in the filing’s content. 7 /s/ Yaman Salahi Yaman Salahi 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 -5JOINT STIPULATION RE: MONEY TRANSFER BUSINESS DEFENDANTS’ DEADLINES TO RESPOND TO FAC Case No. 22-cv-07996-HSG Case 4:22-cv-07996-HSG Document 40 Filed 01/26/23 Page 6 of 6 1 2 ORDER Pursuant to the foregoing stipulation and Local Civil Rule 6-1(b), the Court ORDERS as 3 follows: 4 • 5 Money Transfer Business Defendants’ Deadline to Respond to First Amended Complaint: February 24, 2023; 6 • Plaintiffs’ Deadline to Respond to Motion to Dismiss: April 7, 2023; and 7 • Money Transfer Business Defendants’ Reply in Support of Motion to Dismiss: April 21, 8 2023; 9 10 IT IS SO ORDERED. 11 DATED: ___________________ 1/26/2023 ___________________________________ The Honorable Haywood S. Gilliam, Jr. 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 -6- JOINT STIPULATION RE: MONEY TRANSFER BUSINESS DEFENDANTS’ DEADLINES TO RESPOND TO FAC Case No. 22-cv-07996-HSG
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