From Judge Paul Engelmayer (S.D.N.Y.) in Johnson v. Everyrealm, Inc. (Apr. 26, 2023):
The Court late last night received an urgent request by email from Shane Seppinni, Esq., counsel for plaintiff Tevo Johnson, seeking, on account of a medical emergency, an adjournment of the Friday, April 28, 2023 deadline for filing of his opposition to defendants' partial motion to dismiss.
Mr. Seppinni explains, inter alia, that his wife unexpectedly went into labor and delivered their child yesterday. Mr. Seppinni's email also attaches an email chain in which counsel for defendants Everyrealm, Inc., Julia Schwartz, Janine Yorio, and William Kerr state that they are "only willing" to consent to the three-week adjournment requested by Mr. Seppinni if Mr. Seppinni meets five demands, only two of which relate to this litigation; the others relate to three separate lawsuits, now in arbitration, which Mr. Seppinni brought against Everyrealm on behalf of other clients. Defendants' demands, verbatim, are:
