Roy Rossello v. Edgardo Diaz Melendez

[DOCKET LAST UPDATED: 2/2/2026]

2/27/2025 – 1: Complaint
2/27/2025 – 2: Civil Cover Sheet
2/28/2025 – 3: Notice of Initial Pretrial Conference
4/9/2025 – 4: REQUEST FOR ISSUANCE OF SUMMONS as to Edguardo Diaz Melendez, re: Complaint.
4/10/2025 – 5: ELECTRONIC SUMMONS ISSUED as to Edgardo Diaz Melendez.
4/21/2025 – 6: Letter Motion for Extension of Time
4/23/2025 – 7: Order Granting Letter Motion for Extension of Time
4/29/2025 – 8: SUMMONS RETURNED EXECUTED Summons and Complaint served. Edgardo Diaz Melendez served on 4/24/2025, answer due 5/15/2025. Service was accepted by [name redacted], Sister. Service was made by Mail.
5/15/2025 – 9: Notice of Appearance
5/20/2025 – 10: ORDER Pursuant to Defendant’s request for a 45−day extension to respond to the Complaint, see Dkt. No. 9, the deadline for Defendant to answer or otherwise respond to the Complaint is hereby EXTENDED nunc pro tunc from May 15, 2025 to June 30, 2025. In addition, the Initial Pretrial Conference scheduled for June 12 is ADJOURNED to July 31, 2025 at 9:30 A.M. The deadline for the parties to submit a Joint Letter and Proposed Civil Case Management Plan is likewise ADJOURNED to July 24, 2025. (HEREBY ORDERED by Judge Margaret M. Garnett) (Text Only Order)
6/30/2025 – 11: Notice of Motion to Dismiss
6/30/2025 – 12: Letter Motion – Exhibit A
6/30/2025 – 13: Memorandum of Law in Support Motion to Dismiss Complaint
7/1/2025 – 14: Order
7/14/2025 – 15: Plaintiff’s Memorandum of Law in Opposition to Defendant’s Motion to Dismiss
7/24/2025 – 16: FIRST LETTER MOTION for Extension of Time
7/24/2025 – 17: MOTION for Dean M. Kaire to Appear Pro Hac Vice
7/24/2025 – 18: JOINT LETTER – Exhibit 1
7/25/2025 – 19: ORDER granting Motion for Dean M. Kaire to Appear Pro Hac Vice
7/25/2025 – 20: ORDER granting Letter Motion for Extension of Time
7/28/2025 – 21: MOTION Requesting Remote Appearance at Initial Pretrial Conference
7/29/2025 – 22: ORDER granting Motion
7/31/2025 – 23: CIVIL CASE MANAGEMENT PLAN AND SCHEDULING ORDER
8/5/2025 – 24: RULE 7.1 CORPORATE DISCLOSURE STATEMENT
8/8/2025 – 25: Reply Memorandum of Law in Further Support of Motion to Dismiss
10/22/2025 – 26: ORDER REFERRING CASE TO MAGISTRATE JUDGE
10/30/2025 – 27: ORDER SCHEDULING SETTLEMENT CONFERENCE
11/17/2025 – 28: Letter Motion
11/17/2025 – 29: (Filed under seal)
11/18/2025 – 30: Letter Response
11/18/2025 – 31: Letter Motion
11/18/2025 – 32: (Filed under seal)
11/20/2025 – 33: ORDER Counsel for all parties shall appear for a videoconference on November 21, 2025 at 9:30 a.m.
11/21/2025 – 34: ORDER granting 28 Letter Motion to Seal; granting 29 Letter Motion for Discovery; granting 31 Letter Motion to Seal; granting 32 Letter Motion for Discovery. For the reasons discussed on the record at the conference on November 21, 2025, the Defendant’s request for a nunc pro tunc extension of time to serve his Requests for Production and Interrogatories, and an extension of fact discovery is GRANTED. By Monday, November 24, 2025, Defendant shall serve on Plaintiff a corrected RFP and Interrogatories. Counsel are directed to confer within a reasonable time after receiving those corrected requests, to discuss the time to comply with the requests, discuss any further clarification or corrections, and agree on a schedule of interim deadlines for fact discovery in this case. Fact discovery is extended until April 17, 2026. All counsel should assume that no further extensions of this deadline will be granted. The post−fact−discovery conference previously scheduled for February 26, 2026 is ADJOURNED to Thursday, May 21, 2026 at 9:30 a.m. Counsel are directed to the Court’s Individual Rules for the correspondence required between the close of fact discovery and this conference. Finally, because the filings on this issue contain personal medical information of Defendant’s counsel, the Court finds that sufficient to overcome the presumption of public access to judicial documents and the request to seal Dkt. Nos. 28, 29, 30, and 31 is GRANTED. (HEREBY ORDERED by Judge Margaret M. Garnett)(Text Only Order)
12/2/2025 – 35: Letter Motion to Adjourn Deposition and Settlement Conference
12/2/2025 – 36: Letter Response in Opposition to Motion
12/4/2025 – 37: Order
12/5/2025 – 38: ORDER RESCHEDULING SETTLEMENT CONFERENCE
1/14/2026 – 39: NOTICE OF APPEARANCE by Bradley J Edwards on behalf of Roy Rossello.
1/27/2026 – 40: LETTER MOTION to Seal Letter Motion to Postpone Deposition and Extend Discovery Schedule
1/30/2026 – 41: PROPOSED LETTER MOTION to Continue (Filed under seal)
2/2/2026 – 42: ORDER granting 40 Letter Motion to Seal; granting 41 Letter Motion to Continue: Due to medical unavailability of counsel, Defendant’s requests to adjourn Plaintiff’s deposition and extend the discovery deadline are GRANTED. Plaintiff’s deposition is ADJOURNED until a date on or after March 25, 2026 at a time agreed-upon by all parties. Additionally, the deadline to complete fact discovery is EXTENDED until June 1, 2026. The Court will NOT extend these dates again, absent extraordinary circumstances, unrelated to counsel’s health, that could not have been anticipated as of the date of this Order. If current counsel for Defendant is unable to meet these new deadlines due to his medical situation, he must either withdraw in sufficient time for another attorney to meet these deadlines or seek the assistance of an additional attorney to meet these deadlines. Finally, because Dkt. No. 41 contains personal medical information of Defendant’s counsel, the Court finds that sufficient to overcome the presumption of public access to judicial documents and the request to seal Dkt. 41 is GRANTED. SO ORDERED. (HEREBY ORDERED by Judge Margaret M. Garnett)(Text Only Order)