Sabatini v. Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department

Filing 8

ORDER RE: Motion for temporary restraining order 7 . Metro has until June 2, 2017, to respond to Sabatini's motion. Sabatini must file any reply by 3 p.m. on June 6, 2017. The motion hearing re motion for temporary restraining order 7 is set for 6/7/2017 at 09:00 AM in LV Courtroom 6D before Judge Jennifer A. Dorsey. Signed by Judge Jennifer A. Dorsey on 5/30/2017. (Copies have been distributed pursuant to the NEF - DC)

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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

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DISTRICT OF NEVADA

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John Sabatini,

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Plaintiff

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v.

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Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department,

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2:17-cv-01012-JAD-NJK
Order Setting Briefing Schedule and
Hearing on Motion for Temporary
Restraining Order
[ECF No. 7]

Defendant

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John Sabatini is an employee of Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department (“Metro”)

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who works at the Clark County Detention Center and sues Metro under 42 U.S.C. § 1983,

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alleging that Metro violated his rights to freedom of expression and due process under state and

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federal laws when it fired Sabatini for certain posts that he made to his personal Facebook

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account.1 Sabatini also alleges that Metro violated state and federal laws when it retaliated

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against him—by threatening to pull him from his current post assignment—for filing this action.2

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Sabatini now moves for an order temporarily restraining Metro from taking any adverse

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employment action against him.3 The court believes that it will be beneficial to have a truncated

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briefing schedule and verbal argument by the parties on the issues raised by Sabatini’s motion.

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Accordingly, IT IS HEREBY ORDERED that Metro has until June 2, 2017, to respond

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to Sabatini’s motion for temporary restraining order [ECF No. 7]. Sabatini must file any reply

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by 3 p.m. on June 6, 2017. Sabatini’s motion for temporary restraining order [ECF No. 7] will

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be heard at 9 a.m. on June 7, 2017, in Courtroom 6D of the Lloyd D. George U.S. Courthouse.

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DATED: May 30, 2017.

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Jennifer A. Dorsey
United States District Judge

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ECF No. 6 at ¶¶ 36–44.

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Id. at ¶¶ 54–64.

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ECF No. 7.