Thorne et al v. U.S. Department of State et al

Filing 39

ORDER granting 38 Motion to Extend Time; Joint Status Report due by 1/14/2021. Signed by Magistrate Judge Elayna J. Youchah on 1/8/2021. (Copies have been distributed pursuant to the NEF - JM)

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Case 2:19-cv-01982-JCM-EJY Document 39 Filed 01/08/21 Page 1 of 2 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 ANTHONY J. COPPOLINO Deputy Branch Director JULIA A. HEIMAN Senior Counsel Federal Programs Branch CHRISTOPHER A. BATES Senior Counsel MATTHEW J. GLOVER Senior Counsel Office of the Assistant Attorney General Civil Division, U.S. Department of Justice 1100 L Street, N.W. Washington, D.C. 20530 Telephone: (202) 616-8480 Facsimile: (202) 616-8460 Email: Julia.Heiman@usdoj.gov Attorneys for Defendants 10 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT DISTRICT OF NEVADA 11 12 13 ROBERT D. THORNE, JR., et al., Plaintiffs, 14 v. 15 16 U.S. DEPARTMENT OF STATE, et al., 17 Defendants. 18 ) ) ) Case No: 2:19-cv-01982-JCM-EJY ) ) ) ) Unopposed Motion for Extension of ) Time To Submit Joint Status Report ) (First Request) ) ) 19 20 Under the Court’s January 14, 2020 Order, the parties must submit a joint status report on 21 January 7, 2021, twenty-one days after the completion of appellate proceedings. See ECF No. 30. 22 Defendants respectfully seek an extension of one week, until January 14, 2021, to submit that joint 23 status report, and Plaintiffs do not oppose that request. Pursuant to Local Rule IA 6-1(a), 24 Defendants note that this is the first request for an extension of the deadline for this joint status 25 report. 26 27 28 Undersigned counsel was assigned to the instant case just one week ago, on December 31, 2020, upon the departure of Defendants’ prior counsel from the Department of Justice. See E. Case 2:19-cv-01982-JCM-EJY Document 39 Filed 01/08/21 Page 2 of 2 1 Soskin Mot. to Withdraw, ECF No. 35. Although undersigned counsel has begun to confer with 2 Plaintiffs’ counsel regarding proposed further proceedings in this case, they have not yet had an 3 opportunity to complete that process. The brief unopposed extension requested herein would permit 4 the parties an opportunity to try to reach an agreement regarding the next steps in this litigation, or at 5 least to narrow the issues in dispute. Accordingly, the Defendants respectfully ask that the Court 6 extend the deadline for the parties’ joint status report from January 7, 2021 to January 14, 2021. 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 Dated: January 7, 2021 Respectfully submitted, JEFFREY BOSSERT CLARK Acting Assistant Attorney General JOHN V. COGHLAN Deputy Assistant Attorney General ANTHONY J. COPPOLINO Deputy Branch Director CHRISTOPHER A. BATES Senior Counsel MATTHEW J. GLOVER Senior Counsel /s/ Julia A. Heiman JULIA A. HEIMAN Senior Counsel Civil Division, U.S. Department of Justice 1100 L Street, NW Washington, DC 20003 julia.heiman@usdoj.gov Phone: (202) 616-8480 Fax: (202) 616-8470 Counsel for Defendants 21 22 IT IS SO ORDERED: 23 24 26 ________________________________ UNITED STATES MAGISTRATE JUDGE 27 January 8, 2021 DATED: _________________________ 25 28 2

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