Kiewit Infrastructure West Co. v. L.L.O. Inc., et al, No. 2:2020cv00493 - Document 98 (D. Nev. 2021)
Court Description: ORDER granting 97 Stipulation - Discovery due by 9/14/2022. Motions due by 10/17/2022. Proposed Joint Pretrial Order due by 11/16/2022. Signed by Magistrate Judge Daniel J. Albregts on 12/20/2021. (Copies have been distributed pursuant to the NEF - DRS)
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Kiewit Infrastructure West Co. v. L.L.O. Inc., et al Doc. 98 Case 2:20-cv-00493-RFB-DJA Document 98 97 Filed 12/20/21 12/17/21 Page 1 of 8 1 Justin C. Jones, Esq. Nevada State Bar No. 8519 2 Nicole E. Lovelock, Esq. Nevada State Bar No. 11187 3 Stephen A. Davis, Esq. Nevada State Bar No. 14185 4 JONES LOVELOCK 6600 Amelia Earhart Ct., Suite C 5 Las Vegas, Nevada 89119 Telephone: (702) 805-8450 6 Facsimile: (702) 805-8451 Email: jjones@joneslovelock.com 7 Email: nlovelock@joneslovelock.com Email: sdavis@joneslovelock.com 8 Attorneys for L.L.O., Inc. dba 9 ACME Electric, TAB Contractors, Inc., and Liberty Mutual Insurance Company 10 JONES LOVELOCK 6600 Amelia Earhart Ct., Suite C Las Vegas, NV 89119 11 12 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 13 DISTRICT OF NEVADA 14 KIEWIT INFRASTRUCTURE WEST CO., a Delaware corporation, 15 Plaintiff, 16 v. 17 L.L.O., INC. dba ACME ELECTRIC, a Nevada corporation; TAB CONTRACTORS, INC., a 18 Nevada corporation; LIBERTY MUTUAL INSURANCE COMPANY, a Massachusetts 19 corporation, 20 CASE NO.: 2:20-cv-00493-RFB-DJA STIPULATION TO EXTEND DISCOVERY DEADLINES (FOURTH REQUEST) Defendants. 21 AND RELATED COUNTER-CLAIM AND THIRD-PARTY CLAIM 22 23 It is hereby stipulated by and between Plaintiff / Counterdefendant / Third-Party Defendant 24 Kiewit Infrastructure West Co. (“Kiewit”), Third-Party Defendant Travelers Casualty and Surety 25 Company of America (“Travelers”), Defendants / Counterclaimants / Third-Party Plaintiffs L.L.O. 26 Inc. dba Acme Electric (“ACME”) and TAB Contractors, Inc. (“TAB”), and Defendant Liberty 27 Mutual Insurance Co. (“Liberty”, together with ACME and TAB, the “Subcontractors”), by and 28 through their respective counsel of record, to extend discovery deadlines from May 17, 2022 to Dockets.Justia.com Case 2:20-cv-00493-RFB-DJA Document 98 97 Filed 12/20/21 12/17/21 Page 2 of 8 1 September 14, 2022 (the “Stipulation”), for the reasons stated herein. 2 A. Discovery completed to date. 3 DATE 4 Rule 26(f) Conference June 17, 2020 5 Subcontractors’ Initial FRCP Rule 26(a) Disclosure July 8, 2020 6 Kiewit’s Initial FRCP Rule 26(a) Disclosure July 8, 2020 7 Subcontractors’ First Supplemental Disclosure July 31, 2020 8 Kiewit’s First Supplemental Initial Disclosure August 3, 2020 9 Subcontractors’ Second Supplemental Disclosure August 5, 2020 Subcontractors’ First Requests for Production of Documents to Kiewit Kiewit’s Initial Production of Documents August 10, 2020 Kiewit’s First Requests for Production of Documents to ACME August 31, 2020 Kiewit’s First Requests for Production of Documents to TAB August 31, 2020 Kiewit’s First Interrogatories to ACME August 31, 2020 Kiewit’s First Requests for Admission to ACME August 31, 2020 Kiewit’s Amended First Requests for Admissions to ACME September 1, 2020 Kiewit’s First Interrogatories to TAB September 1, 2020 Kiewit’s Responses to the Subcontractors’ First Requests for Production of Documents to Kiewit Kiewit’s First Production of Documents September 16, 2020 Kiewit’s Second Supplemental Initial Disclosures September 30, 2020 October 27, 2020 24 ACME’s Responses to Kiewit’s Amended Requests for Admissions ACME’s Responses to Kiewit’s Request for Production of Documents ACME’s Responses to Kiewit’s Interrogatories 25 TAB’s Responses to Kiewit’s Interrogatories October 27, 2020 26 Subcontractors’ Third Supplemental Disclosure October 27, 2020 27 Kiewit’s Second Set of Interrogatories to ACME October 29, 2020 10 11 JONES LOVELOCK 6600 Amelia Earhart Ct., Suite C Las Vegas, NV 89119 ITEM 12 13 14 15 16 August 24, 2020 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 28 2 September 24, 2020 October 27, 2020 October 27, 2020 Case 2:20-cv-00493-RFB-DJA Document 98 97 Filed 12/20/21 12/17/21 Page 3 of 8 1 ITEM 2 ACME’s Responses to Kiewit’s Second Set of Interrogatories December 7, 2020 3 ACME’s First Set of Interrogatories to Kiewit February 11, 2021 4 ACME’s First Set of Requests for Admission to Kiewit February 11, 2021 5 Subcontractors’ Second Set of Requests for Production of Documents to Kiewit TAB’s First Set of Interrogatories to Kiewit February 11, 2021 Subcontractors’ Fourth Supplemental Disclosure February 12, 2021 Kiewit’s Third Supplemental Initial Disclosure February 17, 2021 Subcontractors’ Fifth Supplemental Disclosure March 1, 2021 Kiewit’s Supplemental Disclosure of Schedules in Native Form March 9, 2021 Kiewit’s Fourth Supplemental Initial Disclosure March 15, 2021 Kiewit’s Fifth Supplemental Initial Disclosure March 29, 2021 Kiewit’s Supplemental Disclosure of Documents March 30, 2021 Kiewit’s Supplemental Disclosure of Documents April 14, 2021 Kiewit’s Supplemental Disclosure of Documents April 15, 2021 Kiewit’s Sixth Supplemental Initial Disclosure April 15, 2021 Kiewit’s Supplemental Disclosure of Documents April 16, 2021 Kiewit’s Seventh Supplemental Initial Disclosure April 16, 2021 Kiewit’s Eighth Supplemental Initial Disclosure April 29, 2021 May 7, 2021 24 Subcontractors’ Subpoena Duces Tecum issued to Clark County Public Works Subcontractors’ Subpoena Duces Tecum issued to the Narwhal Group Subcontractors’ Subpoena Duces Tecum issued to the Nevada Department of Transportation Subcontractors’ Subpoena Duces Tecum issued to CH2M Hill 25 Subcontractors’ Subpoena Duces Tecum issued to NVEnergy May 7, 2021 26 Subcontractors’ Subpoena Duces Tecum issued to Clark County Public Works Subcontractors’ Subpoena Duces Tecum issued to Atkins North America May 7, 2021 6 7 8 9 10 JONES LOVELOCK 6600 Amelia Earhart Ct., Suite C Las Vegas, NV 89119 11 12 13 14 DATE February 11, 2021 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 27 28 3 May 7, 2021 May 7, 2021 May 7, 2021 May 7, 2021 Case 2:20-cv-00493-RFB-DJA Document 98 97 Filed 12/20/21 12/17/21 Page 4 of 8 1 ITEM DATE 2 Kiewit’s Supplemental Disclosure of Documents May 17, 2021 3 Kiewit’s Ninth Supplemental Initial Disclosure May 19, 2021 4 Subcontractors’ Public Records Request to the Nevada Department of Transportation Subcontractors’ Seventh Supplement to Initial Disclosure May 25, 2021 Kiewit’s Tenth Supplemental Initial Disclosure June 25, 2021 Kiewit’s Supplemental Production of Documents June 25, 2021 Kiewit’s Notice of Errata to Tenth Supplemental Initial Disclosures Subcontractors’ Eighth Supplement to Initial Disclosure June 28, 2021 Kiewit’s Eleventh Supplemental Initial Disclosure July 6, 2021 Kiewit’s Supplemental Production of Documents July 6, 2021 Kiewit’s Supplemental Production of Documents July 7, 2021 Kiewit’s Twelfth Supplemental Initial Disclosure July 8, 2021 Kiewit’s Supplemental Production of Documents July 16, 2021 Kiewit’s Supplemental Production of Documents July 18, 2021 Kiewit’s Thirteenth Supplemental Initial Disclosure July 20, 2021 Kiewit’s Supplemental Production of Documents July 22, 2021 Kiewit’s Fourteenth Supplemental Initial Disclosure July 23, 2021 Kiewit’s Fifteenth Supplemental Initial Disclosure July 28, 2021 Kiewit’s Supplemental Production of Documents July 28, 2021 Subcontractors’ Ninth Supplement to Initial Disclosure August 26, 2021 23 Kiewit’s Interrogatories to ACME, Set 3 September 28, 2021 24 Kiewit’s Interrogatories to TAB, Set 2 September 28, 2021 25 September 28, 2021 26 Kiewit’s Requests for Production of Documents to ACME, Set 2 Kiewit’s Requests for Production of Documents to TAB, Set 2 27 Kiewit’s Supplemental Production of Documents October 8, 2021 5 6 7 8 9 June 15, 2021 July 1, 2021 10 JONES LOVELOCK 6600 Amelia Earhart Ct., Suite C Las Vegas, NV 89119 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 28 4 September 28, 2021 Case 2:20-cv-00493-RFB-DJA Document 98 97 Filed 12/20/21 12/17/21 Page 5 of 8 1 ITEM 2 Subcontractors’ Tenth Supplement to Initial Disclosure October 21, 2021 3 Subcontractors’ Eleventh Supplement to Initial Disclosure November 16, 2021 4 Kiewit’s Interrogatories to ACME, Set 3 November 16, 2021 5 Kiewit’s Interrogatories to TAB, Set 2 November 16, 2021 6 Kiewit’s Requests for Production of Documents to ACME, Set 2 Kiewit’s Requests for Production of Documents to TAB, Set 2 November 16, 2021 First Amended Stipulation Regarding Interrogatories and Deposition of 30(b)(6) Witnesses [Dkt. 94] November 18, 2021 7 8 9 10 B. November 16, 2021 Discovery to be completed. The parties are continuing to conduct discovery. Third party subpoenas have been issued and 11 JONES LOVELOCK 6600 Amelia Earhart Ct., Suite C Las Vegas, NV 89119 DATE 12 served by the Subcontractors, and further third-party subpoenas may be necessary. The Parties need 13 to conduct numerous depositions and serve their expert reports upon each other. 14 C. 15 Reasons why discovery has not or will not be completed by the current deadline. This litigation pertains to a dispute between the parties for construction work performed on 16 Project Neon, the largest public works project in Nevada history, with competing claims and 17 counterclaims seeking millions of dollars in damages. Kiewit and the Subcontractors worked on 18 Project Neon for several years, generating and accumulating hundreds of thousands of documents 19 and electronically stored information (“ESI”) during the project, involving numerous personnel and 20 entities. 21 Kiewit and Subcontractors are working through discovery issues related to ESI disclosures 22 and discovery responses. These discovery issues have impacted the parties’ ability to notice 23 depositions of fact witnesses and impacted Subcontractors’ experts’ ability to form expert opinion 24 regarding the claims, defenses, and damages at issue in this action. Based upon such issues, the 25 Parties are unable to conduct depositions of project personnel and the parties’ Rule 30(b)(6) 26 designees or have their expert witnesses complete their reports. 27 / / / 28 5 Case 2:20-cv-00493-RFB-DJA Document 98 97 Filed 12/20/21 12/17/21 Page 6 of 8 1 The parties are currently contemplating mediation to resolve their differences before this 2 action goes to trial. However, to have a meaningful mediation session, the parties need additional 3 time in discovery. 4 Given the sheer amount of documents produced to date, the remaining documents that need 5 to be produced by both parties, the expert reports that need to be prepared and disclosed, and the 6 depositions that need to be taken, there is good cause to extend the discovery deadlines as set forth 7 below. 8 D. JONES LOVELOCK 6600 Amelia Earhart Ct., Suite C Las Vegas, NV 89119 9 Proposed schedule for completing discovery. DEADLINE CURRENT PROPOSED 10 Discovery Cutoff May 17, 2022 September 14, 2022 11 Amend Pleadings and Add Parties February 16, 2022 May 17, 2022 12 Expert Disclosures March 18, 2022 June 16, 2022 13 Rebuttal Expert Disclosures April 19, 2022 August 15, 2022 14 Dispositive Motions June 16, 2022 October 17, 2022 15 Joint Pretrial Order July 19, 2022 November 16, 2022 16 17 E. Good cause exists to extend the discovery deadline. 18 LR 26-3 requires that any stipulation made to extend discovery be made before 21 days of the 19 discovery deadline and be supported by good cause and satisfy the requirements of LR IA 6-1. The 20 good cause standard under LR 26-3 is the same as the good cause standard under Fed. R. Civ. P. 21 16(b)(4). Winfeld v. Wal-mart Stores, Inc., 2:14-cv-01034-MMD-CWH, 2016 WL 3360658, at *1 22 (D. Nev. Jun. 9, 2016). “Good cause to extend a discovery deadline exists ‘if it cannot reasonably be 23 met despite the diligence of the part[ies] seeking extension.’” Nunez v. Harper, 2:13-cv-0392-GMN24 NJK, 2014 WL 2808985, at *2 (D. Nev. June 20, 2014) (quoting Johnson v. Mammoth Recs., Inc., 25 975 F.2d 604, 609 (9th Cir. 2002)). 26 / / / 27 28 6 Case 2:20-cv-00493-RFB-DJA Document 98 97 Filed 12/20/21 12/17/21 Page 7 of 8 1 Good cause exists to extend the discovery deadlines. The parties still have a significant 2 amount of discovery to complete and are contemplating non-binding mediation. Thus, a discovery 3 extension is warranted under these circumstances, and good cause exists to grant this Stipulation. 4 Dated: December 17, 2021. 5 JONES LOVELOCK 6 /s/ Nicole E. Lovelock Justin C. Jones, Esq. (NVBN 8519) Nicole E. Lovelock, Esq. (NVBN 11187) Stephen A. Davis, Esq. (NVBN 14185) 6600 Amelia Earhart Ct., Suite C Las Vegas, Nevada 89119 7 8 9 Attorneys for L.L.O., Inc. dba ACME Electric, TAB Contractors, Inc., and Liberty Mutual Insurance Company 10 JONES LOVELOCK 6600 Amelia Earhart Ct., Suite C Las Vegas, NV 89119 11 12 Dated: December 17, 2021. 13 /s/ David McPherson David F. McPherson (admitted pro hac vice) Rebecca S. Glos (admitted pro hac vice) 4 Park Plaza, Suite 1000 Irvine, California 92614 14 15 16 Attorneys for Kiewit Infrastructure West Co. and Travelers Casualty and Surety Company of America 17 18 19 20 WATT, TIEDER, HOFFAR & FITZGERALD, L.L.P. ORDER IT IS SO ORDERED. 21 22 23 UNITED STATES MAGISTRATE JUDGE 24 25 Dated: December 20, 2021 26 / / / 27 28 7 Case 2:20-cv-00493-RFB-DJA Document 98 97 Filed 12/20/21 12/17/21 Page 8 of 8 1 2 CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE I certify that on December 17, 2021, I electronically filed the foregoing STIPULATION TO 3 EXTEND DISCOVERY DEADLINES (FOURTH REQUEST) with the Clerk of this Court, 4 using the CM/ECF System. 5 6 7 8 9 10 JONES LOVELOCK 6600 Amelia Earhart Ct., Suite C Las Vegas, NV 89119 11 David R. Johnson, Esq LAW OFFICES OF DAVID R. JOHNSON, PLLC 8712 Spanish Ridge Avenue Las Vegas, NV 89148 Email: david@drjohnsonpllc-law.com Attorney for Kiewit Infrastructure West Co. and Travelers Casualty and Surety Company of America David F. McPherson, Esq. Rebecca S. Glos, Esq. WATT, TIEDER, HOFFAR & FITZGERALD, L.L.P. 4 Park Plaza, Suite 1000 Irvine, California 92614 Email: rglos@watttieder.com Email: dmcpherson@watttieder.com Attorneys for Kiewit Infrastructure West Co. and Travelers Casualty and Surety Company of America 12 13 /s/ Julie Linton __________ An Employee of JONES LOVELOCK 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 8
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