Ucharima Alvarado v. Western Range Association

D. Nevada

Ucharima Alvarado v. Western Range Association

DecidedJanuary 22, 2025

Docket3:22-cv-00249

StatusUnknown

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1 THIERMAN BUCK LLP SALAHI PC LEAH L. JONES, Nev. Bar No. 13161 YAMAN SALAHI, ESQ. (Pro Hac Vice) 2 leah@thiermanbuck.com yaman@salahilaw.com 7287 Lakeside Drive 505 Montgomery Street, 11th Floor 3 Reno, Nevada 89511 San Francisco, California 94111 Telephone: 775-284-1500 4 Facsimile: 775-703-5027 Tel: (415) 236-2352 5 FAIRMARK PARTNERS, LLP Attorneys for Plaintiff and the Putative Class JAMIE CROOKS, ESQ. (Pro Hac Vice) 6 jamie@fairmarklaw.com FISHER & PHILLIPS LLP RUCHA DESAI, ESQ. (Pro Hac Vice) Rebecca Hause-Schultz, Pro Hac Vice 7 rdesai@fairmarklaw.com E-Mail: rhause-schultz@fisherphillips.com 1825 7th Street NW, #821 Dennis Cuneo, Pro Hac Vice 8 Washington, DC 20001 E-Mail: dcueno@fisherphillips.com David B. Witkin, Pro Hac Vice 9 TOWARDS JUSTICE E-Mail: dwitkin@fisherphillips.com DAVID H. SELIGMAN, ESQ. (Pro Hac 621 Capitol Mall, Suite 2400 10 Vice) Sacramento, California 95814 david@towardsjustice.org Telephone: (916) 210-0400 11 ALEXANDER HOOD, ESQ. (Pro Hac Facsimile: (916) 210-0401 Vice) 12 alex@towardsjustice.org LEWIS BRISBOIS PO Box 371680, PMB 44465 Ellen Jean Winograd (Nev. Bar No. 815) 13 Denver, Colorado 80237 5555 Kietzke Lane, Suite 200 E-Mail: ellen.winograd@lewisbrisbois.com Telephone: (775) 399-6377 14 Facsimile: (775) 827-9256 15 Attorneys for Defendant WESTERN RANGE ASSOCIATION 16 [Additional Counsel on Next Page] 17 18 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT DISTRICT OF NEVADA 19 CIRILO UCHARIMA ALVARADO, on behalf 20 of himself and all others similarly situated; Case No. 3:22-cv-00249-MMD-CLB 21 , ORDER GRANTING JOINT 22 v. STIPULATION AND PROPOSED ORDER TO SET 23 WESTERN RANGE ASSOCIATION, a BRIEFING SCHEDULE FOR DEFENDANTS’ RESPONSIVE California non-profit corporation; ELLISON PLEADINGS 24 RANCHING COMPANY, a Nevada corporation; JOHN ESPIL SHEEP CO., INC., a Nevada 25 corporation; F.I.M. CORP., a Nevada corporation; 26 THE LITTLE PARIS SHEEP COMPANY, LLC, a Nevada limited liability company; 27 BORDA LAND & SHEEP COMPANY, LLC, a 1 Nevada limited liability company; HOLLAND RANCH, LLC, a Nevada limited liability 2 company; NEED MORE SHEEP CO., LLC, a 3 Nevada limited liability company; and FAULKNER LAND AND LIVESTOCK 4 COMPANY, INC., an Idaho corporation, 5 . 6 7 FABIAN VANCOTT HOLLAND & HART LLP Scott M. Petersen Joshua M. Halen 8 Email: spetersen@fabianvancott.com Email: jmhalen@hollandhart.com Tanner J. Bean 5470 Kietzke Lane, Suite 100 9 Email: tbean@fabianvancott.com Reno, NV 89511 Kirsten R. Allen 10 Email: kallen@fabianvancott.com Cory A. Talbot, Pro Hac Vice 95 S. State Street, Ste. 2300 catalbot@hollandhart.com 11 Salt Lake City, Utah 84111 April M. Medley, Pro Hac Vice ammedley@hollandhart.com 12 Bryan Dixon 222 S. Main Street, Suite 2200 Email: bdixson@fabianvancott.com Salt Lake City, Utah 84101 13 411 E. Bonneville Ave., Ste. 400 Las Vegas, NV 89101 Attorneys for Defendant The Little Paris 14 Sheep Co., LLC Attorneys for Defendant Ellison Ranching Co. 15 16 JERRY SNYDER LAW SIMONS HALL JOHNSTON PC Jerry M. Snyder Anthony L. Hall, Esq. 17 Email: nevadajerrysnyder@gmail.com Email: ahall@shjnevada.com 429 Plumb Ln. Duncan G. Burke, Esq. 18 Reno, NV 89509 Email: dburke@shjnevada.com 690 Sierra Rose Dr. 19 Attorneys for Defendants F.I.M. Corp., Need Reno, NV 89511 More Sheep Co., LLC, and Faulkner Land & 20 Livestock Co. Attorneys for Defendants John Espil Sheep Co., Inc., Borda Land & Sheep Co., LLC, and 21 Holland Ranch, LLC 22 23 24 25 26 27 1 Plaintiff Cirilo Ucharima Alvarado (“Plaintiff”) and Defendants Western Range 2 Association, Ellison Ranching Co., John Espil Sheep Co., Inc., Borda Land & Sheep Co., LLC, 3 Holland Ranch, LLC, F.I.M. Corp., Need More Sheep Co., LLC, Faulkner Land & Livestock Co., 4 and The Little Paris Sheep Co., LLC, (collectively, “Defendants”), by and through their respective 5 counsel, hereby stipulate to an alternative briefing schedule for Defendants’ Responsive Motion(s) 6 to Plaintiff’s Second Amended Complaint, pursuant to Local Rules IA 6-2, LR 7-1, and LCR 45- 7 1. 8 1. Plaintiff filed his Third Amended Complaint on January 14, 2025. (ECF No. 254); 9 2. Defendants’ Responsive Motion(s) are currently due January 28, 2025. Fed. R. Civ. 10 P. 15(a)(3); 11 3. The Parties respectfully submit that setting an alternative briefing schedule is 12 warranted due to the number of parties, the complexity of the issues, and the desire to avoid taxing 13 the Court’s limited resources with unnecessary motion practice; 14 4. The Parties respectfully submit that setting an alternative briefing schedule will 15 maximize efficiency and serve the interests of justice and judicial economy; 16 5. The Parties propose the following alternative briefing schedule: 17  Defendants’ Responsive Motion(s) deadline: February 11, 2025; 18  Plaintiff’s Opposition deadline: March 11, 2025; 19  Defendants’ Reply to Opposition deadline: March 25, 2025; 20 6. Further, the Parties propose that, if Defendants file more than one motion to 21 dismiss, Plaintiff be permitted to file a single consolidated opposition brief to such motion(s), the 22 length of which shall not exceed the combined maximum length that would have been allowable 23 to Defendants under the local rules based on the number of motions filed. 24 7. This Stipulation is made in good faith and not for the purpose of delay; 25 8. Nothing in this Stipulation, nor the fact of entering into same, shall be construed as 26 a waiver of any claim or defense held by any party; 27 9. For all of the aforementioned reasons, the parties stipulate and request the Court 1 issue an alternative briefing schedule for Defendants’ Responsive Motion(s) to Plaintiff’s Second 2 Amended Complaint, as set forth herein. 3 4 Dated: January 17, 2025 SALAHI PC 5 /s/ Yaman Salahi YAMAN SALAHI, ESQ. (Pro Hac Vice) 6 yaman@salahilaw.com 505 Montgomery Street, 11th Floor 7 San Francisco, California 94111 8 Tel: (415) 236-2352 9 FAIRMARK PARTNERS, LLP JAMIE CROOKS, ESQ. (Pro Hac Vice) 10 jamie@fairmarklaw.com 1825 7th Street NW, #821 11 Washington, DC 20001 12 TOWARDS JUSTICE 13 DAVID SELIGMAN, ESQ. (Pro Hac Vice) 14 david@towardsjustice.org PO Box 371680, PMB 44465 15 Denver, Colorado 80237 16 Co-Lead Counsel for Plaintiff and the Putative 17 Class 18 Dated: January 21, 2025 FISHER & PHILLIPS LLP 19 /s/ David B. Witkin 20 Rebecca Hause-Schultz, Pro Hac Vice 21 E-Mail: rhause-schultz@fisherphillips.com Dennis Cuneo, Pro Hac Vice 22 E-Mail: dcueno@fisherphillips.com David B. Witkin, Pro Hac Vice 23 E-Mail: dwitkin@fisherphillips.com 621 Capitol Mall, Suite 2400 24 Sacramento, California 95714 25 Telephone: (916) 210-0400 Facsimile: (916) 210-0401 26 27 1 LEWIS BRISBOIS 2 /s/Ellen Jean Winograd Ellen Jean Winograd (Nev. Bar No. 815) 3 5555 Kietzke Lane, Suite 200 4 E-Mail: ellen.winograd@lewisbrisbois.com Telephone: (775) 3099-6377 5 Facsimile: (775) 827-9256 6 Attorneys for Defendant Western Range Association 7 8 FABIAN VANCOTT 9 /s/ Tanner J. Bean Scott M. Petersen 10 E-Mail: spetersen@fabianvancott.com Tanner J. Bean 11 E-Mail: tbean@fabianvancott.com Kirsten R. Allen 12 E-Mail: kallen@fabianvancott.com Bryan Dixon 13 E-Mail: bdixson@fabianvancott.com 14 Attorneys for Defendant Ellison Ranching Co. 15 JERRY SNYDER LAW 16 /s/ Jerry M. Snyder 17 Jerry M. Snyder E-Mail: nevadajerrysnyder@gmail.com 18 Attorneys for Defendants F.I.M. Corp., Need 19 More Sheep Co., LLC, and Faulkner Land & Livestock Co. 20 21 SIMONS HALL JOHNSTON PC 22 /s/ Duncan G. Burke Anthony L. Hall, Esq. 23 E-Mail: ahall@shjnevada.com Duncan G. Burke, Esq. 24 E-Mail: dburke@shjnevada.com 690 Sierra Rose Dr. 25 Reno, Nevada 89519 Telephone: (775) 785-0088 26 Attorneys for Defendants John Espil Sheep Co., 27 Inc., Borda Land & Sheep Co., LLC, and Holland 1 Ranch, LLC HOLLAND & HART LLP 2 /s/ Cory A. Talbot 3 Joshua M. Halen E-Mail: jmhalen@hollandhart.com 4 Cory A. Talbot, Pro Hac Vice catalbot@hollandhart.com 5 April M.

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1 THIERMAN BUCK LLP SALAHI PC LEAH L. JONES, Nev. Bar No. 13161 YAMAN SALAHI, ESQ. (Pro Hac Vice) 2 leah@thiermanbuck.com yaman@salahilaw.com 7287 Lakeside Drive 505 Montgomery Street, 11th Floor 3 Reno, Nevada 89511 San Francisco, California 94111 Telephone: 775-284-1500 4 Facsimile: 775-703-5027 Tel: (415) 236-2352 5 FAIRMARK PARTNERS, LLP Attorneys for Plaintiff and the Putative Class JAMIE CROOKS, ESQ. (Pro Hac Vice) 6 jamie@fairmarklaw.com FISHER & PHILLIPS LLP RUCHA DESAI, ESQ. (Pro Hac Vice) Rebecca Hause-Schultz, Pro Hac Vice 7 rdesai@fairmarklaw.com E-Mail: rhause-schultz@fisherphillips.com 1825 7th Street NW, #821 Dennis Cuneo, Pro Hac Vice 8 Washington, DC 20001 E-Mail: dcueno@fisherphillips.com David B. Witkin, Pro Hac Vice 9 TOWARDS JUSTICE E-Mail: dwitkin@fisherphillips.com DAVID H. SELIGMAN, ESQ. (Pro Hac 621 Capitol Mall, Suite 2400 10 Vice) Sacramento, California 95814 david@towardsjustice.org Telephone: (916) 210-0400 11 ALEXANDER HOOD, ESQ. (Pro Hac Facsimile: (916) 210-0401 Vice) 12 alex@towardsjustice.org LEWIS BRISBOIS PO Box 371680, PMB 44465 Ellen Jean Winograd (Nev. Bar No. 815) 13 Denver, Colorado 80237 5555 Kietzke Lane, Suite 200 E-Mail: ellen.winograd@lewisbrisbois.com Telephone: (775) 399-6377 14 Facsimile: (775) 827-9256 15 Attorneys for Defendant WESTERN RANGE ASSOCIATION 16 [Additional Counsel on Next Page] 17 18 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT DISTRICT OF NEVADA 19 CIRILO UCHARIMA ALVARADO, on behalf 20 of himself and all others similarly situated; Case No. 3:22-cv-00249-MMD-CLB 21 , ORDER GRANTING JOINT 22 v. STIPULATION AND PROPOSED ORDER TO SET 23 WESTERN RANGE ASSOCIATION, a BRIEFING SCHEDULE FOR DEFENDANTS’ RESPONSIVE California non-profit corporation; ELLISON PLEADINGS 24 RANCHING COMPANY, a Nevada corporation; JOHN ESPIL SHEEP CO., INC., a Nevada 25 corporation; F.I.M. CORP., a Nevada corporation; 26 THE LITTLE PARIS SHEEP COMPANY, LLC, a Nevada limited liability company; 27 BORDA LAND & SHEEP COMPANY, LLC, a 1 Nevada limited liability company; HOLLAND RANCH, LLC, a Nevada limited liability 2 company; NEED MORE SHEEP CO., LLC, a 3 Nevada limited liability company; and FAULKNER LAND AND LIVESTOCK 4 COMPANY, INC., an Idaho corporation, 5 . 6 7 FABIAN VANCOTT HOLLAND & HART LLP Scott M. Petersen Joshua M. Halen 8 Email: spetersen@fabianvancott.com Email: jmhalen@hollandhart.com Tanner J. Bean 5470 Kietzke Lane, Suite 100 9 Email: tbean@fabianvancott.com Reno, NV 89511 Kirsten R. Allen 10 Email: kallen@fabianvancott.com Cory A. Talbot, Pro Hac Vice 95 S. State Street, Ste. 2300 catalbot@hollandhart.com 11 Salt Lake City, Utah 84111 April M. Medley, Pro Hac Vice ammedley@hollandhart.com 12 Bryan Dixon 222 S. Main Street, Suite 2200 Email: bdixson@fabianvancott.com Salt Lake City, Utah 84101 13 411 E. Bonneville Ave., Ste. 400 Las Vegas, NV 89101 Attorneys for Defendant The Little Paris 14 Sheep Co., LLC Attorneys for Defendant Ellison Ranching Co. 15 16 JERRY SNYDER LAW SIMONS HALL JOHNSTON PC Jerry M. Snyder Anthony L. Hall, Esq. 17 Email: nevadajerrysnyder@gmail.com Email: ahall@shjnevada.com 429 Plumb Ln. Duncan G. Burke, Esq. 18 Reno, NV 89509 Email: dburke@shjnevada.com 690 Sierra Rose Dr. 19 Attorneys for Defendants F.I.M. Corp., Need Reno, NV 89511 More Sheep Co., LLC, and Faulkner Land & 20 Livestock Co. Attorneys for Defendants John Espil Sheep Co., Inc., Borda Land & Sheep Co., LLC, and 21 Holland Ranch, LLC 22 23 24 25 26 27 1 Plaintiff Cirilo Ucharima Alvarado (“Plaintiff”) and Defendants Western Range 2 Association, Ellison Ranching Co., John Espil Sheep Co., Inc., Borda Land & Sheep Co., LLC, 3 Holland Ranch, LLC, F.I.M. Corp., Need More Sheep Co., LLC, Faulkner Land & Livestock Co., 4 and The Little Paris Sheep Co., LLC, (collectively, “Defendants”), by and through their respective 5 counsel, hereby stipulate to an alternative briefing schedule for Defendants’ Responsive Motion(s) 6 to Plaintiff’s Second Amended Complaint, pursuant to Local Rules IA 6-2, LR 7-1, and LCR 45- 7 1. 8 1. Plaintiff filed his Third Amended Complaint on January 14, 2025. (ECF No. 254); 9 2. Defendants’ Responsive Motion(s) are currently due January 28, 2025. Fed. R. Civ. 10 P. 15(a)(3); 11 3. The Parties respectfully submit that setting an alternative briefing schedule is 12 warranted due to the number of parties, the complexity of the issues, and the desire to avoid taxing 13 the Court’s limited resources with unnecessary motion practice; 14 4. The Parties respectfully submit that setting an alternative briefing schedule will 15 maximize efficiency and serve the interests of justice and judicial economy; 16 5. The Parties propose the following alternative briefing schedule: 17  Defendants’ Responsive Motion(s) deadline: February 11, 2025; 18  Plaintiff’s Opposition deadline: March 11, 2025; 19  Defendants’ Reply to Opposition deadline: March 25, 2025; 20 6. Further, the Parties propose that, if Defendants file more than one motion to 21 dismiss, Plaintiff be permitted to file a single consolidated opposition brief to such motion(s), the 22 length of which shall not exceed the combined maximum length that would have been allowable 23 to Defendants under the local rules based on the number of motions filed. 24 7. This Stipulation is made in good faith and not for the purpose of delay; 25 8. Nothing in this Stipulation, nor the fact of entering into same, shall be construed as 26 a waiver of any claim or defense held by any party; 27 9. For all of the aforementioned reasons, the parties stipulate and request the Court 1 issue an alternative briefing schedule for Defendants’ Responsive Motion(s) to Plaintiff’s Second 2 Amended Complaint, as set forth herein. 3 4 Dated: January 17, 2025 SALAHI PC 5 /s/ Yaman Salahi YAMAN SALAHI, ESQ. (Pro Hac Vice) 6 yaman@salahilaw.com 505 Montgomery Street, 11th Floor 7 San Francisco, California 94111 8 Tel: (415) 236-2352 9 FAIRMARK PARTNERS, LLP JAMIE CROOKS, ESQ. (Pro Hac Vice) 10 jamie@fairmarklaw.com 1825 7th Street NW, #821 11 Washington, DC 20001 12 TOWARDS JUSTICE 13 DAVID SELIGMAN, ESQ. (Pro Hac Vice) 14 david@towardsjustice.org PO Box 371680, PMB 44465 15 Denver, Colorado 80237 16 Co-Lead Counsel for Plaintiff and the Putative 17 Class 18 Dated: January 21, 2025 FISHER & PHILLIPS LLP 19 /s/ David B. Witkin 20 Rebecca Hause-Schultz, Pro Hac Vice 21 E-Mail: rhause-schultz@fisherphillips.com Dennis Cuneo, Pro Hac Vice 22 E-Mail: dcueno@fisherphillips.com David B. Witkin, Pro Hac Vice 23 E-Mail: dwitkin@fisherphillips.com 621 Capitol Mall, Suite 2400 24 Sacramento, California 95714 25 Telephone: (916) 210-0400 Facsimile: (916) 210-0401 26 27 1 LEWIS BRISBOIS 2 /s/Ellen Jean Winograd Ellen Jean Winograd (Nev. Bar No. 815) 3 5555 Kietzke Lane, Suite 200 4 E-Mail: ellen.winograd@lewisbrisbois.com Telephone: (775) 3099-6377 5 Facsimile: (775) 827-9256 6 Attorneys for Defendant Western Range Association 7 8 FABIAN VANCOTT 9 /s/ Tanner J. Bean Scott M. Petersen 10 E-Mail: spetersen@fabianvancott.com Tanner J. Bean 11 E-Mail: tbean@fabianvancott.com Kirsten R. Allen 12 E-Mail: kallen@fabianvancott.com Bryan Dixon 13 E-Mail: bdixson@fabianvancott.com 14 Attorneys for Defendant Ellison Ranching Co. 15 JERRY SNYDER LAW 16 /s/ Jerry M. Snyder 17 Jerry M. Snyder E-Mail: nevadajerrysnyder@gmail.com 18 Attorneys for Defendants F.I.M. Corp., Need 19 More Sheep Co., LLC, and Faulkner Land & Livestock Co. 20 21 SIMONS HALL JOHNSTON PC 22 /s/ Duncan G. Burke Anthony L. Hall, Esq. 23 E-Mail: ahall@shjnevada.com Duncan G. Burke, Esq. 24 E-Mail: dburke@shjnevada.com 690 Sierra Rose Dr. 25 Reno, Nevada 89519 Telephone: (775) 785-0088 26 Attorneys for Defendants John Espil Sheep Co., 27 Inc., Borda Land & Sheep Co., LLC, and Holland 1 Ranch, LLC HOLLAND & HART LLP 2 /s/ Cory A. Talbot 3 Joshua M. Halen E-Mail: jmhalen@hollandhart.com 4 Cory A. Talbot, Pro Hac Vice catalbot@hollandhart.com 5 April M. Medley, Pro Hac Vice ammedley@hollandhart.com 6 Attorneys for Defendant The Little Paris Sheep 7 Co., LLC 8 ORDER 9 10 Based on the stipulation of the parties, the Court finds good cause to modify the briefin 11 || Schedule and structure as follows: 12 ° Defendants’ Responsive Motion(s) deadline: February 11, 2025; 13 ° Plaintiff's Opposition deadline: March 11, 2025; 14 ° Defendants’ Reply to Opposition deadline: March 25, 2025; 15 6 Further, if Defendants file more than one motion to dismiss, Plaintiff shall be permitted to file

17 single consolidated opposition brief to such motion(s), the length of which shall not exceed th 18 || combined maximum length that would have been allowable to Defendants under the local rule 19 || based on the number of motions filed. 20 IT IS SO ORDERED. 21 Dated: January 22, 2025 22 23 TED STATES DISTRICT JUDGE MIRANDA M. DU

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