United States of America for the Use and Benefit of Wells Cargo, Inc. v. Alpha Energy and Electric, Inc.

Opinion

1 Stephen J. Moore Pro Hac Vice 2 Krigel & Krigel, P.C. 3 4520 Main, Ste 700 Kansas City, MO 64111 4 Phone: (816) 756-5800 Fax: (816) 756-1999 5 Email: sjmoore@krigelandkrigel.com 6 Counsel for Alpha Energy and Electric, Inc. 7 Jakub B. Medrala, Esq. 8 Nevada Bar NO. 12822 9 The Medrala Law Firm, PLLC 615 South 6th Street 10 Las Vegas, Nevada 89101 Phone: (702) 475-8884 11 Fax: (702) 938-8625 12 Email: jmedrala@medralaw.com 13 Local Counsel for Alpha Energy and Electric, Inc. 14 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF NEVADA 15 16 UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, for the use Case No. 2:18-cv-01182-JCM-EJY and benefit of WELLS CARGO, INC., 17 Plaintiffs, 18 v. STIPULATION AND ORDER REGARDING CONTINUANCE OF 19 ALPHA ENERGY AND ELECTRIC, INC., BENCH TRIAL 20 a Missouri corporation, and AMERICAN CONTRACTORS INDEMNITY COMPANY, 21 a California corporation, Defendants. 22 23 ALPHA ENERGY AND ELECTRIC, INC., a Missouri Corporation, 24 Third-Party Plaintiff, v. 25 26 NORTHCON, INC., an Idaho corporation; SOUTHWESTERN CONSTRUCTION, INC., 27 a Utah corporation; DOES 1 through 10; AND ROE corporations 1 through 10, 28 Third Party Defendants. 1 STIPULATION 2 Alpha Energy and Electric, Inc., American Contractors Indemnity Company, Northcon, 3 Inc. and Southwestern Construction, Inc., by and through their respective counsel, hereby stip- 4 ulate, agree and request that the Court continue the bench trial in this matter to the trial stack on 5 6 October 31, 2022. 7 This matter was set for bench trial beginning May 23, 2022. After the parties filed several 8 pretrial motions, the Court entered an order in the interest of judicial efficiency resetting the 9 trial date to June 6, 2022, so that the parties could fully brief the pending motions. (Doc. #212.) 10 The new trial date creates a conflict for Alpha’s counsel, who already has a trial in another case 11 12 set for June 6 in the United States District Court for the District of Kansas. Given this scheduling 13 conflict, counsel for the parties have conferred and agree that it is necessary to request a further 14 continuance of the June 6 trial setting. Counsel have discussed their respective litigation sched- 15 ules over the next few months and have determined they have mutual availability for trial start- 16 ing on October 31, 2022. 17 18 This stipulation for continuance of trial is made in good faith and is not intended to delay 19 or hinder the proceedings. Good cause exists for the continuance in light of the scheduling con- 20 flict for Alpha’s counsel, which cannot be avoided and could not have been foreseen until the 21 trial date in this matter was recently moved from May 23 to June 6. The parties’ agreement is 22 made in consideration of the Court’s trial calendar and in furtherance of the resolution of this 23 24 case in accordance with Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 1. 25 IT IS SO STIPULATED. 26 27 28 1 Respectfully submitted this 16th day of May, 2022. 2 KRIGEL & KRIGEL, P.C. PISKEL YAHNE KOVARIK, PLLC 3 By: /s/ Stephen J. Moore By: /s/ Nicholas D. Kovarik 4 Stephen J. Moore pro hac vice Nicholas D. Kovarik pro hac vice 4520 Main Street, Suite 700 Benjamin J. McDonnell pro hac vice 5 Kansas City, Missouri 64111 522 W. Riverside Avenue, Suite 700 6 Telephone: 816.756.5800 Spokane, Washington 99201 Facsimile: 816.756.1999 Telephone: 509.321.5930 7 sjmoore@krigelandkrigel.com Facsimile: 509.321.5935 8 nick@pyklawyers.com Jakub B. Medrala Nev. Bar #12822 ben@pyklawyers.com 9 The Medrala Law Firm, PLLC 615 South 6th Street 10 Las Vegas, Nevada 89101 Brian W. Boschee Nev. Bar #7612 Holley Driggs Walch Fine Wray Telephone: 702.475.8884 11 Puzey & Thompson Facsimile: 702.938.8625 400 South Fourth Street, 3rd Floor 12 jmedrala@medralaw.com Las Vegas, Nevada 89101 13 Counsel for Alpha Energy and Electric, Inc. Telephone: 702.791.0308 Facsimile: 702. 791.1912 14 bboschee@nevadafirm.com THE FAUX LAW GROUP 15 Counsel for Northcon, Inc. 16 By: /s/ Jordan F. Faux Jordan F. Faux Nev. Bar #12205 17 2625 N. Green Valley Pkwy, Suite 100 STRONG & HANNI, P.C. 18 Henderson, Nevada 89014 By: /s/ Michael D. Stanger Telephone: 702.458.5790 Michael D. Stanger Nev. Bar #8272 19 Facsimile: 702.458.5794 102 South 200 East, Suite 800 jfaux@fauxlaw.com Salt Lake City, Utah 84111 20 Telephone: 801.532.7080 Counsel for American Contractors 21 Indemnity Company Facsimile: 801.596.1508 mstanger@strongandhanni.com 22 Kent F. Larsen Nev. Bar #3463 23 Smith Larsen & Wixom 24 1935 Village Center Circle Las Vegas, Nevada 89134 25 Telephone: 702.252.5002 Facsimile: 702.252.5006 26 kfl@slwlaw.com 27 Counsel for Southwestern Construction, Inc. 28 1 CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE 2 I, the undersigned, hereby certify that on May 16, 2022, I served a true and correct copy 3 of the foregoing document via the ECF filing system upon the following: 4 Michael D. Stanger, Esq. STRONG & HANNI PC 5 102 South 200 East, Suite 800 Salt Lake City, UT 84111 6 mstanger@strongandhanni.com Counsel for Southwestern Construction 7 Kent F. Larsen 8 SMITH LARSEN & WIXOM 1935 Village Center Circle 9 Las Vegas, NV 89134 10 kfl@slwlaw.com Local counsel for Southwestern Construction 11 Ryan D. Yahne, Esq. 12 Nicholas D. Kovarik, Esq. Benjamin McDonnell, Esq. 13 PISKEL YAHNE KOVARIK, PLLC 522 Wet Riverside Ave., Suite 700 14 Spokane, WA 99201 Email: ryan@pyklawyers.com 15 Email: nick@pyklawyers.com Email: ben@pyklawyers.com 16 Counsel for Northcon, Inc. 17 Brian W. Boschee, Nevada Bar #7612 HOLLEY DRIGGS WALCH FINE 18 WRAY PUZEY & THOMPSON 19 400 S. Fourth Street, 3rd Floor Las Vegas, Nevada 89101 20 Telephone: (702) 791-0308 Facsimile: (702) 791-1912 21 Email: bboschee@nevadafirm.com Local counsel for Northcon, Inc. 22 Kurt C. Faux, Esq. 23 Jordan F. Faux, Esq. THE FAUX LAW GROUP 24 2625 N. Green Valley Parkway, #100 Henderson, NV 89014 25 Email: kfaux@fauxlaw.com 26 Email: jfaux@fauxlaw.com Counsel for American Contractors Indemnity Company 27 /s/ Stephen J. Moore 28 Attorney for Defendant Alpha Energy and Electric, Inc. 1 ORDER The Court accepts the parties’ Stipulation for continuance of trial. This case is re-set for a bench trial on the stacked calendar on October 31, 2022, at 9:00 a.m, in Courtroom 6A. The

5 parties shall appear for a calendar call on October 26, 2022, at 1:30 p.m. 6 7 || Dated May 16, 2022. 8 9 iit ©. Atallan 10 HON.JAMESC. MAHAN SS UNITED STATES DISTRICT JUDGE 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28