Richards v. Cox

• Court: District Court, D. Nevada
• Decided: May 31, 2022
• Docket: 2:16-cv-01794
• Status: Unknown

Opinion

Attorney General 2 WILLIAM SHOGREN, Bar No. 14619 Deputy Attorney General 3 AUSTIN T. BARNUM, Bar No. 15174 Senior Deputy Attorney General 4 State of Nevada Office of the Attorney General 5 555 E. Washington Avenue, Suite 3900 Las Vegas, Nevada 89101 6 Tel: (702) 486-0661 E-mail: wshogren@ag.nv.gov 7 austin.barnum@ag.nv.gov Attorneys for Defendants 8 Renee Baker, Eric Boardman and James Cox 9

10 Richard Schonfeld, Nevada Bar No. 6815 rschonfeld@cslawoffice.net 11 CHESNOFF & SCHONFELD 520 South Fourth Street, 2nd Floor 12 Las Vegas, Nevada 89101 Telephone: (702) 384-5563 13

14 John Burton, Pro Hac Vice, California Bar No. 86029 jb@johnburtonlaw.com 15 THE LAW OFFICES OF JOHN BURTON 128 North Fair Oaks Avenue 16 Pasadena, California 91103 Telephone: (626) 449-8300 17 Attorneys for Plaintiff Stacey M. Richards

19 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

20 DISTRICT OF NEVADA

21 STACEY M. RICHARDS, Case No. 2:16-cv-01794-JCM-BNW

22 Plaintiff, JOINT STIPULATION AND ORDER 23 v. TO VACATE AND RESCHEDULE THE SETTLEMENT CONFERENCE 24 GREG COX, et al.,

25 Defendants. 26 Defendants, Renee Baker, Eric Boardman, and James “Greg” Cox, by and through 27 counsel, Aaron D. Ford, Attorney General of the State of Nevada, Austin T. Barnum, Senior 28 Deputy Attorney General, and William P. Shogren, Deputy Attorney General, and 2 Schonfeld, Esq., hereby submit this Joint Stipulation and Order to Vacate and Reschedule 3 the Settlement conference current set for June 24, 2022, to a date most convenient for this 4 Court in early August 2022. 5 MEMORANDUM OF POINTS AND AUTHORITIES 6 I. RELEVANT BACKGROUND 7 This Court issued an order scheduling a settlement conference on June 24, 2022. 8 ECF No. 103. Confidential settlement statements are due June 16, 2022. Id. at 1:13-17. 9 Parties held a meet and confer on May 24, 2022, to discuss, among other things, the 10 current date. One of the undersigned counsel for defendants, Senior Deputy Attorney 11 General, Austin T. Barnum, recently received mandatory military orders for the United 12 States Army Reserves that prevent his attendance at the settlement conference on June 13 24, 2022. Although Plaintiff is prepared to proceed with the settlement conference on the 14 date notice, to accommodate Defendants, he agreed to filing this joint stipulation for an 15 order vacating the current date and deadlines for the settlement conference. The next most 16 appropriate timeframe for both Parties is in the first week of August. (Plaintiff’s counsel 17 John Burton has a three-week jury trial scheduled to commence in Los Angeles Superior 18 Court on July 5, 2022.) 19 II. LEGAL DISCUSSION 20 Parties stipulate to this Court vacating the current order setting the settlement 21 conference and rescheduling for a date most convenient to this Court in early August. 22 Courts have the inherent power to control their dockets. Hamilton Copper & Steel Corp. v. 23 Primary Steel, Inc., 898 F.2d 1428, 1429 (9th Cir. 1990) (citations omitted). Parties make 24 this request because one of the undersigned counsel for Defendants recently received 25 military orders and is, therefore, unavailable for the current date. This request is made in 26 good faith and is not for the purpose of causing delay. 27 28 1 CONCLUSION 2 Parties stipulate to this Court vacating its order in ECF No. 103 and rescheduling 3 || the settlement conference for a date most convenient to this Court in early August 2022. 4 || DATED this 27 day of May 2022. DATED this 27 day of May 2022. 5 AARON D. FORD 6 Attorney General

7 || By: __/s/ John Burton By: __/s/ Austin T. Barnum Richard Schonfeld, Nevada Bar No. 6815 Austin T. Barnum, Bar No. 15174 8 || rschonfeld@cslawoffice.net Senior Deputy Attorney General CHESNOFF & SCHONFELD William Shogren, Bar No. 14619 2 11520 South Fourth Street, □□ Floor Deputy Attorney General Las Vegas, Nevada 89101 Attorneys for Defendants 10 Telephone: (702) 384-5563 11 || John Burton, Pro Hac Vice, California Bar No. 86029 12 || jb@johnburtonlaw.com THE LAW OFFICES OF JOHN BURTON 13 || 128 North Fair Oaks Avenue Pasadena, California 91103 14 ||Telephone: (626) 449-8300 Attorneys for Plaintiff Stacey M. Richards

16 ORDER 7 IT IS ORDERED that ECF No. 104 is GRANTED. 18 IT IS FURTHER ORDERED that the pre-Settlement Conference 19 Telephonic Conference is RESCHEDULED to 8/4/2022 at 3:00 p.m. Counsel is kindly directed to call (877) 810-9415, access code 20 2365998. 21 . IT IS FURTHER ORDERED that the Settlement Conference is 22 RESCHEDULED to 8/5/2022 at 9:00 a.m. The Court will circulate a Zoom invitation closer to the rescheduled Settlement Conference 23 date. DA IT IS SO ORDERED DATED: 6:57 pm, May 31, 2022 25 aon lawekaty | 26 UNITED STATES MAGISTRATE JUDGE 27 28