McGee v. Donahoe

Filing 77

ORDER that the Clerk's Office is INSTRUCTED to remove the undersigned as the settlement judge and remove the ENE flag from CM/ECF in this case. Signed by Magistrate Judge Nancy J. Koppe on 12/15/15. (Copies have been distributed pursuant to the NEF - MMM)

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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

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DISTRICT OF NEVADA

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LOLA MCGEE,
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Plaintiff(s),
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PATRICK R. DONAHOE, et al.,
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Defendant(s).
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Case No. 2:13-cv-01426-RFB-VCF
ORDER

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Pending before the Court is a joint status report indicating that an early neutral evaluation session

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would not be fruitful at this time. Docket No. 76. In this instance, United States District Judge Richard

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F. Boulware has ruled on Defendant’s motion to dismiss, and ordered limited discovery to be conducted.

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Docket No. 57. The parties seek the scheduling of an early neutral evaluation following completion of

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that discovery, briefing on a renewed motion to dismiss, and the issuance of an order resolving that

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contemplated motion. See Docket No. 76 at 2. As the name connotes, early neutral evaluation sessions

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are designed to be held in the early stage of litigation. See Local Rule 16-6(d). Given the posture of this

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case and the parties’ proposal for further delay, the undersigned declines to hold an early neutral

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evaluation session in this case. See Local Rule 16-6(c) (“The evaluating magistrate judge . . . may

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exempt any case from early neutral evaluation on the judge’s own motion”).

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Accordingly, the Clerk’s Office is INSTRUCTED to remove the undersigned as the settlement
judge and remove the ENE flag from CM/ECF in this case.

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IT IS SO ORDERED.

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Dated: December 15, 2015

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Nancy J. Koppe
United States Magistrate Judge