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Nature of Suit Code: 110
Nature of Suit: Insurance
Cause of Action: 28:1332in Diversity-Insurance Contract

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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

AMOR MINISTRIES,

Plaintiff,

v.

CENTURY SURETY COMPANY,

Defendant.

Case No.: 13-cv-1441-GPC-BGS

[Consolidated with 13-cv-2517]

ORDER REQUIRING 

SUPPLEMENTAL BRIEFING AND 

CONTINUING HEARING DATE

[ECF Nos. 77, 78, 79]

Presently before the Court are Century Surety Company’s (“Defendant’s”) Rule 

50(a) motions for judgment as a matter of law on (1) Amor Ministries’ and the Days’

(collectively “Plaintiffs”) claim for punitive damages (ECF No. 77); (2) Days’ claim for 

emotional distress damages (ECF No. 78); and (3) the Days’ attorney’s fees claim (ECF 

No. 79). The Parties have fully briefed the motions. (ECF Nos. 99, 105.) 

Plaintiffs’ opposition rests in part on the argument that a party cannot properly “raise 

arguments in its post-trial motion for judgment as a matter of law under Rule 50(b) that it 

did not raise in its pre-verdict Rule 50(a) motion.” E.E.O.C. v. Go Daddy Software, Inc., 

581 F.3d 951, 961 (9th Cir. 2009). Plaintiffs argue that Defendant’s additional arguments

that were not asserted in its pre-verdict Rule 50(a) motions—discussed in Sections A, B 

and C of Defendant’s Supplemental Motion (ECF No. 99)—are thus procedurally 

foreclosed. Accordingly, IT IS HEREBY ORDERED that Defendant is to submit 

supplemental briefing on the issue on or by March 11, 2016. 

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The hearing scheduled for Friday, March 11, 2016 is hereby CONTINUED to 

Friday, April 8, 2016. 

IT IS SO ORDERED.

Dated: March 3, 2016

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