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

Opinion

1 Ryan D. Yahne, Pro Hac Vice Nicholas D. Kovarik, Pro Hac Vice 2 Benjamin J. McDonnell, Pro Hac Vice 3 Piskel Yahne Kovarik, PLLC 522 West Riverside Ave., Suite 700 4 Spokane, WA 99201 Telephone: (509) 321-5930 5 Facsimile: (509) 321-5935 Email: ryan@pyklawyers.com 6 nick@pyklawyers.com 7 ben@pyklawyers.com 8 Counsel for Northcon, Inc. 9 Brian W. Boschee, Nevada Bar #7612 Holley Driggs Walch Fine 10 Wray Puzey & Thompson 11 400 S. Fourth Street, 3rd Floor Las Vegas, Nevada 89101 12 Telephone: (702) 791-0308 Facsimile: (702) 791-1912 13 Email: bboschee@nevadafirm.com 14 Local counsel for Northcon, Inc. 15 16 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 17 DISTRICT OF NEVADA 18 UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, for the use Civil Action No. 2:18-cv-01182-JCM-EJY and benefit of WELLS CARGO, INC., 19 STIPULATION AND ORDER RE: TRIAL DEADLINES Plaintiff, 20 v. 21 ALPHA ENERGY AND ELECTRIC, INC., a 22 Missouri corporation, and AMERICAN CONTRACTORS INDEMNITY COMPANY, a 23 California corporation, 24 Defendants. 25 _______________________________________ ALPHA ENERGY AND ELECTRIC, INC., a 26 Missouri Corporation, 27 Third-Party Plaintiff, 1 v. 2 NORTHCON, INC., an Idaho Corporation; 3 SOUTHWESTERN CONSTRUCTION, INC., a Utah corporation; DOES 1 through 10; and 4 ROE corporations 1 through 10, 5 Third-Party Defendants. 6 A ND ALL RELATED CASES. 7 STIPULATION 8 Alpha Energy and Electric, Inc. (“Alpha”), Northcon, Inc. (“Northcon”), American 9 10 Contractors Indemnity Company (“ACIC”), and Southwestern Construction, Inc. 11 (“Southwestern Construction”) (collectively “Parties”), by and through their respective counsel, 12 hereby stipulate, agree and request as follows: 13 1. Southwestern Construction has settled its claims with Northcon. As a result of 14 this settlement, Northcon will prosecute the affirmative claims of Southwestern Construction 15 against Alpha and ACIC at trial as the assignee on those claims. 16 2. Due to the Court’s Order ECF No. 231, the Parties agree that counsel for 17 18 Southwestern Construction is no longer required for this matter to move forward on all 19 remaining claims and defenses and that Southwestern Construction’s counsel of record be 20 excused from further participation. 21 3. As a result, Northcon is the only party with affirmative claims and will act as 22 Plaintiff, as it carries the burden of proof. Northcon will begin its exhibit numbers at one; 23 Alpha will begin its exhibit numbers at 500; and ACIC will begin its exhibit numbers at 700. 24 / / / 25 26 27 / / / 4. The parties agree that all deadlines outlined in the calendar call Order (ECF No.

2 222) will be due October 26, 2022 and hereby agree to attend the calendar call on October 26, 3 2022, if the Court would be so inclined to vacate the October 14, 2022 status conference. 4 IT IS SO STIPULATED. 5 Dated this 13" day of October 2022. Dated this 13" day of October 2022. 6 KRIGEL & KRIGEL STRONG & HANNI, P.C. 7 8 || Stephen J. Moore /s/ Michael D. Stanger Stephen J. Moore, Pro Hac Vice Michael D. Stanger, Nev. Bar #8272 9 4520 Main, Ste. 700 102 South 200 East, Ste. 800 Kansas City, MO 64111 Salt Lake City, Utah 84111 10 || Phone: (816) 756-5800 Phone: (801) 532-7080 Fax: (816) 756-1999 Fax: (801) 596-1508 11 || Email: sjmoore@krigelandkrigel.com Email: mstanger@strongandhanni.com Counsel for Alpha Energy and Electric, Inc. Counsel for Southwestern Construction, Inc. 12 13 || Dated this 13" day of October 2022. Dated this 13" day of October 2022. 14 || PISKEL YAHNE KOVARIK, PLLC THE FAUX LAW GROUP 15 /s/ Nicholas D. Kovarik 16 || Nicholas D. Kovarik, Pro Hac Vice Jorday/F. Faux, Nev. Bar # 12205 Benjamin J. McDonnell, Pro Hac Vice 2625 IN. Green Valley Parkway, #100 17 || 522 W. Riverside Ave., Suite 700 Henderson, Nevada 89014 Spokane, WA 99201 Telephone: (702) 458-5790 18 |} Phone: (509) 321-5930 Fax: (702) 458-5794 Fax: (509) 321-5935 Email: jfaux@fauxlaw.com 19 Email: nick@pyklawyers.com Counsel for American Contractors Indemni ben@pyklawyers.com Company 20 || Counsel for Northcon, Inc. 21 22 ORDER 23 IT IS SO ORDERED: 24 25 Ethos ¢ Atal Wun 26 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT JUDGE 27 October 13, 2022 DATE: 28