Carley v. Gentry et al

Filing 169

ORDER granting ECF No. 168 Stipulation : Proposed Joint Pretrial Order due by 5/25/2022. Signed by Magistrate Judge Cam Ferenbach on 4/28/2022. (Copies have been distributed pursuant to the NEF - DRM)

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AARON D. FORD
Attorney General
CHRISTOPHER M. GUY (Bar No. 15239)
Deputy Attorney General
State of Nevada
Office of the Attorney General
555 East Washington Avenue
Suite 3900
Las Vegas, Nevada 89101
[phone] (phone)
[phone] (fax)
Email: [e-mail]
Attorneys for Defendants James Dzurenda, Charles Daniels,
Sheryl Foster, Jo Gentry, Tanya Hill, Gabriela Najera,
Dwight Neven, Cynthia Ruiz, Kim Thomas, and Patrick Vejar
LISA A. RASMUSSEN, Esq.
Law Offices of Kristina Wildeveld & Associates
550 East Charleston Blvd.
Las Vegas, Nevada 89101
[phone] (phone)
[phone] (fax)
Email: [e-mail]
Attorneys for Plaintiff

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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

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DISTRICT OF NEVADA

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ELIZABETH CARLEY,

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Plaintiff,

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v.

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JO GENTRY, et al.,

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Case No. 2:17-cv-02670-MMD-VCF

Defendants.

JOINT STIPULATION AND ORDER
TO EXTEND THE JOINT PRETRIAL
ORDER DEADLINE FROM APRIL
25, 2022, TO MAY 25, 2022

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Plaintiff Elizabeth Carley, by and through counsel, Lisa. A. Rasmussen, and

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Defendants, Sheryl Foster, Patrick Vejar, Jo Gentry, James Dzurenda, Charles Daniels,

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Gabriela Najera, Tanya Hill, Dwight Neven, Cynthia Ruiz, and Kim Thomas, by and

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through counsel, Aaron D. Ford, Nevada Attorney General, and Christopher M. Guy,

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Deputy Attorney General, of the State of Nevada, Office of the Attorney General, hereby

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Joint Stipulation And Order To Extend The Joint Pretrial Order Deadline From April 25,

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2022, to May 25, 2022.

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The Parties hereby move to extend the Joint Pretrial Order deadline from April 25,

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2022, to May 25, 2022 (30 days). Good cause supports this extensions request. Defense

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counsel starts a trial on April 25, 2022. Defense Counsel was required to prepare for this

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trial, and therefore the Parties requests an additional 30 days to draft the Joint Pretrial

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Order.

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I.

INTRODUCTION

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The Parties request an extension of the Joint Pretrial Order deadline of April 25,

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2022. Defense counsel will be in trial the week of April 25th for case 3:17-cv-00649-MMD-

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CSD. Therefore, the Parties requests an additional 30 days to draft the Joint Pretrial

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Order.

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II.

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LAW AND ARGUMENT
A.

Law

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Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 6(b)(1) 1 provides:

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(1) In General. When an act may or must be done within a
specified time, the court may, for good cause, extend the time:
(A) with or without motion or notice if the court acts, or if
a request is made, before the original time or its extension
expires; or
(B) on motion made after the time has expired if the party
failed to act because of excusable neglect.

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Fed.R.Civ.P. 6(b)(1).

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The United States Supreme Court has recognized, “Rule 6(b) gives the

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court extensive flexibility to modify the fixed time periods found throughout the rules,

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whether the enlargement is sought before or after the actual termination of the allotted

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time.” Lujan v. Nat'l Wildlife Fed., 497 U.S. 871, 906 n. 7 (1990) (internal quotation marks

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and citation omitted) (emphasis added); see also Perez-Denison v. Kaiser Found. Health

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Plan of the Nw., 868 F. Supp. 2d 1065, 1079 (D. Or. 2012) (citing and quoting Lujan, 497

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LR IA 6-1(a): “A motion or stipulation to extend time must state the reasons for the
extension requested and must inform the court of all previous extensions of the subject
deadline the court granted.” Further, a “stipulation or motion seeking to extend the time
to file an opposition or reply to a motion, or to extend the time fixed for hearing a motion,
must state in its opening paragraph the filing date of the subject motion or the date of the
subject hearing.” LR IA 6-1(c).
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U.S. at 906). Further, this rule, like all the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure is to be liberally

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construed to effectuate the general purpose of seeing that cases (and other disputed issues)

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are decided on the merits. Ahanchian v. Xenon Pictures, Inc., 624 F.3d 1253, 1258 (9th Cir.

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2010). Regarding “Good cause,” it is a non-rigorous standard that has been construed

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broadly across procedural and statutory contexts. Id. (citing several circuits Venegas–

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Hernandez v. Sonolux Records, 370 F.3d 183, 187 (1st Cir.2004); Thomas v. Brennan, 961

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F.2d 612, 619 (7th Cir.1992); Lolatchy v. Arthur Murray, Inc., 816 F.2d 951, 954 (4th

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Cir.1987)).

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Consequently, requests for extensions of time made before the applicable deadline

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has passed should “normally ... be granted in the absence of bad faith on the part of the

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party seeking relief or prejudice to the adverse party.” Ahanchian, 624 F.3d at 1259

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(quoting 4B Charles Alan Wright & Arthur R. Miller, Federal Practice and Procedure §

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1165 (3d ed. 2004).

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B.

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Defense counsel attended the pre-trail calendar call on April 5, 2022, in case 3:17-

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cv-00649-MMD-CSD; the case scheduled for trial back in November 2021 but was

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continued. On April 5, 2022, the District Court informed the parties that case 3:17-cv-

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00649-MMD-CSD was number one (1) on the stack. Thus, the trial will take place starting

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April 25th.

Argument

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The Parties contend that the upcoming trial in case 3:17-cv-00649-MMD-CSD

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establishes good cause to grant this extension request. The Parties do not act in bad faith.

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The Parties seek additional time to work together to draft the Joint Pretrial Order. Thus,

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the Parties request an extension of the Joint Pretrial Order deadline of April 25, 2022, to

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May 25, 2022.

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III.

CONCLUSION
For the foregoing reasons, the Parties request an extension of the Joint Pretrial

Order deadline of April 25, 2022, to May 25, 2022.

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DATED this 22nd day of April 2022

DATED this 22nd day of April 2022

By: /s/ _Lisa A. Rasmussen_____________
LISA A. RASMUSSEN, Esq.
Law Offices of Kristina Wildeveld &
Associates
550 E. Charleston Blvd.
Las Vegas, Nevada 89101
Attorneys for Plaintiff

By: /s/ Christopher M. Guy _______
CHRISTOPHER M. GUY
Deputy Attorney General
Office of the Nevada Attorney General
555 E. Washington Avenue, #3900
Las Vegas, Nevada 89101
Attorneys for Defendants

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IT IS SO ORDERED.

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UNITED STATES MAGISTRATE JUDGE
4-28-2022
DATE: ________________________________

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