HomeMy WebLinkAbout2020CV30580 - City Of Fort Collins V. Board Of County Commissioners Of Larimer County, Colorado And Streetmediagroup, Llc - 015 - Plaintiff's Motion For Extension Of Time To File Response To Motion To DismissDISTRICT COURT, COUNTY OF LARIMER,
COLORADO
Larimer County Justice Center
201 Laporte Avenue, Suite 100
Fort Collins, Colorado 80521-2762
(970) 498-6100
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Plaintiff: THE CITY OF FORT COLLINS,
COLORADO, a municipal corporation,
v.
Defendants: BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS
OF LARIMER COUNTY, COLORADO;
STREETMEDIAGROUP, LLC
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Andrew D. Ringel #24762
Hall & Evans, L.L.C.
1001 17th Street, Suite 300
Denver, CO 80202
303-628-3300
Fax: 303-628-3368
ringela@hallevans.com
John R. Duval #10185
Deputy City Attorney
Claire Havelda #36831
Assistant City Attorney
City Attorney’s Office
300 Laporte Avenue
P.O. Box 500
Fort Collins, Colorado 80522
970-221-6652
Fax: 970-221-6327
jduval@fcgov.com
chavelda@fcgov.com
Attorneys for Plaintiff
▲COURT USE ONLY ▲
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Case Number: 2020CV030580
Division: 4B
DATE FILED: October 12, 2020 12:07 PM
FILING ID: C96F63BCB4FF3
CASE NUMBER: 2020CV30580
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PARTIALLY UNOPPOSED MOTION FOR EXTENSION OF
TIME TO RESPOND TO MOTION TO DISMISS
with proposed Order
Plaintiff City of Fort Collins, by and through its attorneys, Andrew D. Ringel, Esq., of Hall
& Evans, L.L.C. and John R. Duval, Esq., Deputy City Attorney, and Claire Havelda, Esq.,
Assistant City Attorney, of the Fort Collins City Attorney’s Office, hereby respectfully submits
this Partially Unopposed Motion for Extension of Time to Respond to Motion to Dismiss, as
follows:
1. Certificate of Conferral: Pursuant to C.R.C.P. 121(1-15)(8), prior to filing this
Motion, the undersigned counsel conferred with counsel for the Defendants. Counsel for
Defendant Board of County Commissioners of Larimer County, Jeannine S. Haag, Esq., indicated
Larimer County does not oppose this Motion. Counsel for Defendant StreetMediaGroup, LLC,
Andrew J. Helm, Esq., indicated he does not oppose an extension of 7 days but does oppose the
requested extension for 10 days.
2. Defendant StreetMediaGroup, LLC filed its Motion to Dismiss was filed on
September 22, 2020. As a result, Plaintiff’s Response to the Motion to Dismiss is due on or before
October 13, 2020. The undersigned counsel for Plaintiff who has primary responsibility for
preparing the Plaintiff’s Response requires some additional time to do so and therefore respectfully
requests an extension of time until and including October 23, 2020.
3. First, the Motion to Dismiss consists of 21 pages and raises several distinct
arguments requiring research by the undersigned counsel and then preparation of an appropriate
response to each argument. Second, the undersigned counsel is also responsible for a variety of
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other different matters and has not yet had the opportunity to devote sufficient time to the response
to the Motion to Dismiss due to the pendency of those other matters and the deadlines associated
with them. In particular, during the past three weeks, the undersigned counsel has filed a brief
with the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit, Motions to Dismiss in six cases
involving allegations made by inmates and detainees related to COVID-19 in the United States
District Court for the District of Colorado, motions practice in various state court cases, submitted
several Position Statements to the EEOC and the CCRD, participated in two all-day mediations,
several depositions, and several preparation meetings with deponents for their depositions. This
week, the undersigned counsel has two depositions preparation meetings, two depositions, a Reply
Brief in Support of a Motion for Summary Judgment and an Answer Brief to the United States
Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit, among other activities. These activities this week mean
the undersigned counsel will only have limited time to devote to the Response to the Motion to
Dismiss this week and therefore needs all of next week to complete the work on it. Those reasons
are why the undersigned counsel needs more time than the 7 days offered by counsel for
StreetMediaGroup, LLC.
4. No party will be prejudiced by this brief extension of time and the requested
extension will not unduly disrupt the schedule before this Court.
5. Pursuant to C.R.C.P. 121(1-15)(6), the undersigned counsel has served his client
representative with a copy of this Motion.
WHEREFORE, for all the foregoing reasons, Plaintiff City of Fort Collins respectfully
requests this Court grant it an extension of ten (10) days until and including October 23, 2020, to
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file its Response to Defendant StreetMediaGroup, LLC’s Motion to Dismiss, and for all other and
further relief as this Court deems just and appropriate.
Dated this 12th day of October, 2020.
Respectfully submitted,
/s/ Andrew D. Ringel________________
Andrew D. Ringel #24762
Hall & Evans, L.L.C.
1001 17th Street, Suite 300
Denver, CO 80202
303-628-3300
Fax: 303-628-3368
ringela@hallevans.com
and
John R. Duval #10185
Deputy City Attorney
Claire Havelda #36831
Assistant City Attorney
City Attorney’s Office
300 Laporte Avenue
P.O. Box 500
Fort Collins, Colorado 80522
970-221-6652
Fax: 970-221-6327
jduval@fcgov.com
chavelda@fcgov.com
ATTORNEYS FOR PLAINTIFF
THE CITY OF FORT COLLINS
COLORADO
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CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE
I hereby certify that on this 12th day of October, 2020, a true and correct copy of the
foregoing was filed with the Court and served via Colorado Courts E-Filing System to the
following email addresses:
Todd G. Messenger, Esq.
tmessenger@fwlaw.com
Andrew J. Helm, Esq.
ahelm@fwlaw.com
Jeannine S. Haag, Esq.
haagjs@co.larimer.co.us
William G. Ressue, Esq.
wressue@larimer.org
Frank N. Haug, Esq.
haugfn@co.larimer.co.us
and sent the foregoing via email to the following client representative:
Carrie Daggett, Esq.
City Attorney
/s/ Nicole Marion .
Nicole Marion
of HALL & EVANS, L.L.C.,