Federal Trade Commission v. Amazon.com Inc, No. 2:2023cv00932 - Document 75 (W.D. Wash. 2023)
Court Description: ORDER granting Parties' 74 Stipulated MOTION Setting Briefing Schedule on Defendants Motion to Dismiss. Defendants shall answer or otherwise respond to the Amended Complaint on or before 10/18/2023. Plaintiff shall file its oppositions to any motions to dismiss on or before 11/17/2023. Defendants shall file their replies in support of any motions to dismiss on or before 12/8/2023. Signed by Judge John H. Chun. (KRA)
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Federal Trade Commission v. Amazon.com Inc Doc. 75 Case 2:23-cv-00932-JHC Document 75 Filed 09/29/23 Page 1 of 6 The Honorable John H. Chun 1 2 3 4 5 6 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT WESTERN DISTRICT OF WASHINGTON AT SEATTLE 7 8 FEDERAL TRADE COMMISSION, No. 2:23-cv-0932-JHC 9 STIPULATION AND ORDER SETTING BRIEFING SCHEDULE ON DEFENDANTS’ MOTIONS TO DISMISS 10 Plaintiff, v. 11 AMAZON.COM, INC., et al., 12 Defendants. NOTE ON MOTION CALENDAR: September 28, 2023 13 STIPULATED MOTION 14 15 The parties, by and through their attorneys of record, respectfully request that the Court 16 enter the proposed Order set forth below, which sets a briefing schedule for motions to dismiss 17 and word limits for such briefing. 18 In support of this request, the parties represent the following to the Court: 19 1. On August 7, 2023, the Court granted the parties’ stipulated motion to extend the 20 deadline for the Plaintiff to file an amended complaint as of right to September 20, 2023, and to 21 extend the deadline for Amazon.com, Inc. to answer or otherwise respond until 28 days from the 22 date of the amended complaint. [Dkt. 38]. 23 2. On September 20, 2023, Plaintiff filed the Amended Complaint, which added 24 three individuals—Neil Lindsay, Russell Grandinetti, and Jamil Ghani—as Defendants in 25 addition to Amazon.com, Inc. 26 27 STIPULATED MOTION AND ORDER SETTING BRIEFING SCHEDULE (2:23-cv-0932-JHC) - 1 4894-8168-3072v.2 0051461-005818 Davis Wright Tremaine LLP L AW O FFICE S 920 Fifth Avenue, Suite 3300 Seattle, WA 98104-1610 206.622.3150 main · 206.757.7700 fax Dockets.Justia.com Case 2:23-cv-00932-JHC Document 75 Filed 09/29/23 Page 2 of 6 3. 1 Pursuant to the Court’s Order, [Dkt. 38], the deadline for Amazon.com, Inc. to 2 answer or otherwise respond to the Amended Complaint is October 18, 2023. Absent an 3 extension of time, Plaintiff’s deadline to oppose would be November 6, 2023, and Amazon’s 4 deadline to reply would be November 10, 2023. 4. 5 The four Defendants intend to file two motions to dismiss pursuant to Fed. R. Civ. 6 P. 12(b): one on behalf of Amazon, and the other on behalf of Messrs. Lindsay, Grandinetti, and 7 Ghani. 8 5. To allow the parties to fully apprise the Court of their arguments regarding the 9 motions to dismiss, the parties stipulate as follows and jointly request that the Court enter the 10 following Order approving that stipulation: 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 a. Defendants shall answer or otherwise respond to the Amended Complaint on or before October 18, 2023; b. Plaintiff shall file its oppositions to any motions to dismiss on or before November 17, 2023; c. Defendants shall file their replies in support of any motions to dismiss on or before December 8, 2023; and d. The combined word count for the motions to dismiss shall not exceed 16,800 18 words; the combined word count for Plaintiff’s oppositions shall not exceed 19 16,800 words; and the combined word count for Defendants’ replies shall not 20 exceed 8,400 words. 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 STIPULATED MOTION AND ORDER SETTING BRIEFING SCHEDULE (2:23-cv-0932-JHC) - 2 4894-8168-3072v.2 0051461-005818 Davis Wright Tremaine LLP L AW O FFICE S 920 Fifth Avenue, Suite 3300 Seattle, WA 98104-1610 206.622.3150 main · 206.757.7700 fax Case 2:23-cv-00932-JHC Document 75 Filed 09/29/23 Page 3 of 6 1 Stipulated to and respectfully submitted this 28th day of September, 2023, by: 2 DAVIS WRIGHT TREMAINE LLP Attorneys for Defendants 3 4 By s/ Kenneth E. Payson Kenneth E. Payson, WSBA #26369 James Howard, WSBA #37259 920 Fifth Avenue, Suite 3300 Seattle, WA 98104-1610 Telephone: (206) 622-3150 Fax: (206) 757-7700 E-mail: kenpayson@dwt.com jimhoward@dwt.com 5 6 7 8 9 COVINGTON & BURLING LLP 10 Stephen P. Anthony* Laura Flahive Wu* Laura M. Kim* John D. Graubert* 850 Tenth Street, NW Washington, DC 20001 Telephone: (206) 662-5105 E-mail: santhony@cov.com lflahivewu@cov.com lkim@cov.com jgraubert@cov.com 11 12 13 14 15 16 John E. Hall* 415 Mission Street, Suite 5400 San Francisco, CA 94105 Telephone: (415) 591-6855 E-mail: jhall@cov.com 17 18 19 Megan L. Rodgers* 3000 El Camino Real Palo Alto, CA 94306 Telephone: (650) 632-4734 E-mail: mrodgers@cov.com 20 21 22 23 HUESTON HENNIGAN LLP 24 John C. Hueston* Moez M. Kaba* Joseph A. Reiter* 523 West 6th Street, Suite 400 Los Angeles, CA 90014 Telephone: (213) 788-4340 25 26 27 STIPULATED MOTION AND ORDER SETTING BRIEFING SCHEDULE (2:23-cv-0932-JHC) - 3 4894-8168-3072v.2 0051461-005818 Davis Wright Tremaine LLP L AW O FFICE S 920 Fifth Avenue, Suite 3300 Seattle, WA 98104-1610 206.622.3150 main · 206.757.7700 fax Case 2:23-cv-00932-JHC Document 75 Filed 09/29/23 Page 4 of 6 E-mail: jhueston@hueston.com mkaba@hueston.com jreiter@hueston.com 1 2 *Admitted pro hac vice 3 4 5 Approved and Agreed To By: 6 FEDERAL TRADE COMMISSION Attorneys for Plaintiff 7 By s/ Evan M. Mendelson Evan Mendelson, D.C. Bar #996765 Olivia Jerjian, D.C. Bar #1034299 Thomas Maxwell Nardini, IL Bar #6330190 600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW Washington, DC 20580 (202) 326-3320; emendelson@ftc.gov (202) 326-2749; ojerjian@ftc.gov (202) 326-2812; tnardini@ftc.gov 8 9 10 11 12 13 Colin D. A. McDonald, WSBA # 55243 Federal Trade Commission 915 Second Ave., Suite 2896 Seattle, WA 98174 (206) 220-4474; cmacdonald@ftc.gov 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 ORDER IT IS SO ORDERED. DATED this 29th day of September, 2023. A 21 22 JOHN H. CHUN UNITED STATES DISTRICT JUDGE 23 24 25 26 27 STIPULATED MOTION AND ORDER SETTING BRIEFING SCHEDULE (2:23-cv-0932-JHC) - 4 4894-8168-3072v.2 0051461-005818 Davis Wright Tremaine LLP L AW O FFICE S 920 Fifth Avenue, Suite 3300 Seattle, WA 98104-1610 206.622.3150 main · 206.757.7700 fax Case 2:23-cv-00932-JHC Document 75 Filed 09/29/23 Page 5 of 6 Presented By: 1 DAVIS WRIGHT TREMAINE LLP Attorneys for Defendant 2 By s/ Kenneth E. Payson 3 Kenneth E. Payson, WSBA #26369 4 By s/ James Howard James Howard, WSBA #37259 5 920 Fifth Avenue, Suite 3300 6 Seattle, WA 98104-1610 Telephone: (206) 622-3150 7 Fax: (206) 757-7700 E-mail: kenpayson@dwt.com 8 jimhoward@dwt.com 9 COVINGTON & BURLING LLP 10 11 12 13 14 15 Stephen P. Anthony* Laura Flahive Wu* Laura M. Kim* John D. Graubert* 850 Tenth Street, NW Washington, DC 20001 Telephone: (206) 662-5105 E-mail: santhony@cov.com lflahivewu@cov.com lkim@cov.com jgraubert@cov.com 16 17 18 John E. Hall* 415 Mission Street, Suite 5400 San Francisco, CA 94105 Telephone: (415) 591-6855 E-mail: jhall@cov.com 19 20 21 Megan L. Rodgers* 3000 El Camino Real Palo Alto, CA 94306 Telephone: (650) 632-4734 E-mail: mrodgers@cov.com 22 23 HUESTON HENNIGAN LLP 24 25 26 27 John C. Hueston* Moez M. Kaba* Joseph A. Reiter* 523 West 6th Street, Suite 400 Los Angeles, CA 90014 Telephone: (213) 788-4340 STIPULATED MOTION AND ORDER SETTING BRIEFING SCHEDULE (2:23-cv-0932-JHC) - 5 4894-8168-3072v.2 0051461-005818 Davis Wright Tremaine LLP L AW O FFICE S 920 Fifth Avenue, Suite 3300 Seattle, WA 98104-1610 206.622.3150 main · 206.757.7700 fax Case 2:23-cv-00932-JHC Document 75 Filed 09/29/23 Page 6 of 6 1 E-mail: jhueston@hueston.com mkaba@hueston.com jreiter@hueston.com 2 *Admitted pro hac vice 3 4 FEDERAL TRADE COMMISSION Attorneys for Plaintiff 5 By s/ Evan Mendelson 6 Evan Mendelson, D.C. Bar #996765 Olivia Jerjian, D.C. Bar #1034299 7 Thomas Maxwell Nardini, IL Bar #6330190 600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW 8 Washington, DC 20580 (202) 326-3320; emendelson@ftc.gov 9 (202) 326-2749; ojerjian@ftc.gov (202) 326-2812; tnardini@ftc.gov 10 11 12 13 Colin D. A. McDonald, WSBA # 55243 Federal Trade Commission 915 Second Ave., Suite 2896 Seattle, WA 98174 (206) 220-4474; cmacdonald@ftc.gov 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 STIPULATED MOTION AND ORDER SETTING BRIEFING SCHEDULE (2:23-cv-0932-JHC) - 6 4894-8168-3072v.2 0051461-005818 Davis Wright Tremaine LLP L AW O FFICE S 920 Fifth Avenue, Suite 3300 Seattle, WA 98104-1610 206.622.3150 main · 206.757.7700 fax
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