Arizona, State of et al v. United States of America et al

Filing 50

STIPULATION and Request for an Extension of Time to Submit Reply in Support of Motion to Dismiss by Dennis K Burke, Eric Himpton Holder, Jr, United States Department of Justice, United States of America. (Attachments: # 1 Text of Proposed Order)(Risner, Scott)

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Thomas C. Horne 1 Attorney General Firm Bar No. 14000 2 Kevin D. Ray, No. 007485 Lori S. Davis, No. 027875 3 Aubrey Joy Corcoran, No. 025423 Assistant Attorneys General 4 1275 West Washington Street Phoenix, Arizona 85007-2926 5 Telephone: (602) 542-8328 Facsimile: (602) 364-0700 6 Email: EducationHealth@azag.gov 7 Attorneys for Plaintiffs Tony West 8 Assistant Attorney General Arthur R. Goldberg 9 Assistant Branch Director Scott Risner (MI Bar #P70762) 10 Trial Attorney United States Department of Justice 11 Civil Division, Federal Programs Branch 20 Massachusetts Avenue, N.W. 12 Washington, D.C. 20530 Telephone: (202) 514-2395 13 Facsimile: (202) 616-8470 Scott.Risner@usdoj.gov 14 Attorney for Defendants United States, U.S. Department of Justice, Eric H. Holder, 1 15 and Ann Scheel 16 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT DISTRICT OF ARIZONA 17 18 State of Arizona, et al., 19 Plaintiffs, 20 21 22 23 24 No. 2:11-cv-01072-SRB STIPULATION AND REQUEST FOR AN EXTENSION OF TIME TO SUBMIT REPLY IN SUPPORT OF MOTION TO DISMISS (FIRST REQUEST) vs. United States of America, et al., Defendants. IT IS HEREBY STIPULATED, pursuant to LRCiv 7.3, by and between the parties hereto, through undersigned counsel, that Federal Defendants shall receive an 25 26 1 Plaintiffs’ complaint named U.S. Attorney Dennis K. Burke as a defendant in his 27 official capacity. Pursuant to Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 25(d), Acting U.S. Attorney Ann Birmingham Scheel is substituted in her official capacity for Mr. Burke. 28 1 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 extension of time until October 7, 2011, to file their reply in support of their Motion to Dismiss. This is the first stipulation seeking an extension of time. Federal Defendants’ reply is currently due on September 19, 2011. Federal Defendants request this extension of time because they need additional time to prepare a reply memorandum responding to each of Plaintiffs’ arguments. One of the attorneys with primary responsibility for this litigation will be unavailable September 12-29, 2011 due to previously scheduled travel, while the undersigned counsel for Federal Defendants will be in trial on another matter the week of September 26, 2011. Plaintiffs agree to the stipulation without objection. A proposed order is attached. Dated: September 9, 2011. Respectfully submitted, /s/ Lori S. Davis (by permission)__ Thomas C. Horne Attorney General Firm Bar No. 14000 Kevin D. Ray, No. 007485 Lori S. Davis, No. 027875 Aubrey Joy Corcoran, No. 025423 Assistant Attorneys General 1275 West Washington Street Phoenix, Arizona 85007-2926 Telephone: (602) 542-8328 Facsimile: (602) 364-0700 Email: EducationHealth@azag.gov Attorney for Plaintiffs /s/ Scott Risner____________ Scott Risner (MI Bar #P70762) Trial Attorney United States Department of Justice Civil Division, Federal Programs Branch 20 Massachusetts Avenue, N.W. Washington, D.C. 20530 Telephone: (202) 514-2395 Facsimile: (202) 616-8470 Scott.Risner@usdoj.gov Attorney for Federal Defendants 27 28 2 1 CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE 2 I hereby certify that on September 9, 2011, I electronically transmitted the 3 attached document to the Clerk’s Office using the CM/ECF System for filing and 4 transmittal of a Notice of Electronic Filing to the following CM/ECF registrants: 5 6 7 Aubrey Joy Corcoran, Kevin D. Ray, and Lori Simpson Davis Office of the Attorney General 1275 W. Washington St. Phoenix, AZ 85007 Attorneys for Plaintiffs 8 9 10 11 Ezekiel R. Edwards ACLU Foundation, Criminal Law Reform Project 125 Broad St., 18th Floor New York, NY 10004-2400 Attorney for Defendant Arizona Medical Marijuana Association 12 13 14 15 Daniel Joseph Pochoda ACLU Foundation of Arizona 77 E. Columbus St., Ste. 205 Phoenix, AZ 85012 Attorney for Defendant Arizona Medical Marijuana Association 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 Thomas W. Dean 323 N Leroux St., Ste. 101 Flagstaff , AZ 86001 Attorney for Defendant Arizona Association of Dispensary Professionals Ken Frakes Rose Law Group, PC 6613 N. Scottsdale Road, Suite 200 Scottsdale, AZ 85250 KFrakes@roselawgroup.com Attorney for Defendants Serenity Arizona, Holistic Health Management, Levine, Pennypacker, Flores, Christensen, Pollock and Silva Thomas P. Liddy Maricopa County Attorney’s Office Civil Services Division 222 N. Central Ave., Ste. 1100 Phoenix, AZ 85004 1 1 2 Attorney for Proposed Intervenor-Plaintiffs Maricopa County and Joy Rich /s/ Scott Risner____________ Scott Risner 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 2

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