Insight Investments LLC v. North American Specialty Insurance Company

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE
WESTERN DISTRICT OF OKLAHOMA
INSIGHT INVESTMENTS LLC, )
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Plaintiff, )
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v. ) Case No. CIV-20-788-G
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NORTH AMERICAN SPECIALTY )
INSURANCE COMPANY, )
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Defendant. )
ORDER
Now before the Court is Defendant’s unopposed Motion (Doc. No. 19) requesting
suspension of its deadline to answer or otherwise respond to Plaintiff’s Amended
Complaint. Defendant asks the Court to hold this deadline “in abeyance” pending
adjudication of its Partial Motion to Dismiss (Doc. No. 8) the claims asserted in Plaintiff’s
original Complaint. Defendant suggests that this course of action will “promote judicial
economy” and “serve the best interests of the parties to this litigation.” Def.’s Mot. (Doc.
No. 19), at 2.
Defendant’s Motion is DENIED in accordance with the well-settled rule that an
amended complaint supersedes an earlier filed complaint and “renders it of no legal effect.”
Davis v. TXO Prod. Corp., 929 F.2d 1515, 1517 (10th Cir. 1991) (citation and internal
quotation marks omitted). Defendant’s Partial Motion to Dismiss (Doc. No. 8) is DENIED
as moot. Defendant is DIRECTED to answer or otherwise respond to the Amended
Complaint (Doc. No. 15) within 7 days of this order.
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IT IS SO ORDERED this 29th day of October, 2020.
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