Progressive Casualty Insurance Company v. Delaney et al

Filing 43

ORDER Granting 42 Motion to Substitute Attorney Kevin Stolworthy in place and stead of Attorney Conor P. Flynn. Signed by Magistrate Judge Peggy A. Leen on 7/12/12. (Copies have been distributed pursuant to the NEF - MMM)

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1 2 3 4 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 5 DISTRICT OF NEVADA 6 7 8 9 10 11 PROGRESSIVE CASUALTY INS. CO., ) ) Plaintiff, ) ) vs. ) ) JACKIE K. DELANEY, et al., ) ) Defendants. ) __________________________________________) Case No. 2:11-cv-00678-LRH-PAL ORDER (Substitution of Counsel - Dkt. #42) 12 13 This matter is before the court on a Substitution of Attorneys (Dkt. #42). It seeks to substitute 14 Kevin Stolworthy in the place and stead of Conor P. Flynn as counsel for Defendants Jackie K. 15 Delaney, Larry E. Carter, Mark A. Stout, Kenneth Templeton, John Shively, Steven C. Kalb, Jerome F. 16 Snyder, Hugh Templeton, and Rick Dreshler. LR IA 10-6(c) requires that any stipulation to substitute 17 attorneys shall be by leave of court and shall bear the signature of the attorneys and the client 18 represented. It provides that the signature of an attorney to substitute into a case “constitutes an express 19 acceptance of all dates then set for pretrial proceedings, for trial or hearing, by the discovery plan, or in 20 any court order.” LR IA 10-6(d) also provides that the substitution of an attorney “shall not alone be 21 reason for delay of pretrial proceedings, discovery, the trial, or any hearing in this case.” Plaintiff filed 22 the Complaint (Dkt. #1) on April 29, 2011. There is a Motion for Summary Judgment (Dkt. #20) 23 pending before the district judge. Accordingly, 24 25 26 27 28 IT IS ORDERED that Defendants’ request to substitute Kevin Stolworthy in the place and stead of Conor P. Flynn is GRANTED, subject to the provisions of LR IA 10-6(c) and (d). Dated this 12th day of July, 2012. _________________________________________ PEGGY A. LEEN UNITED STATES MAGISTRATE JUDGE

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