United States v. Lawrence

Opinion

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9 United States of America, No. CV-23-01091-PHX-JAT

10 Plaintiff, ORDER

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12 Dennis Lawrence, Bull Holdings Trust, Melissa Lawrence, PennyMac Loan 13 Services LLC, and Legal-Ease LLC,

14 Defendants. 15 16 Currently pending before the Court is a motion by Plaintiff for judgment against 17 Dennis and Melissa Lawerence (these Defendants join the motion). (Doc. 36). Eight 18 Defendants remain in this case: Dennis Lawrence, Melissa Lawrence, PennyMac Loan 19 Services LLC, Legal-Ease LLC, and the four Trustees of the Bull Holdings Trust. The 20 currently pending motion only seeks judgment against four of these eight Defendants as 21 follows: “Judgment shall be entered for the United States on its Complaint against Dennis 22 Lawrence, individually and as Trustee of Bull Holdings Trust, and Melissa Lawrence, 23 individually and as Trustee of Bull Holdings Trust.” (Doc. 36 at 5, ¶17). The motion does 24 seek a partial judgment under Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 54(b) (“Rule 54(b)”). 25 As a result, Plaintiff must either file a motion for partial judgment pursuant to Rule 26 54(b) or otherwise resolve the claims against the other four Defendants. See Gomez v. EOS 27 CCA, No. CV-18-2740-PHX-JAT (DMF), 2020 WL 4673167 (D. Ariz. Aug. 12, 2020) 28 (discussing the law governing when a partial judgment is warranted). Accordingly, 1 IT IS ORDERED that within 14 days of this Order, Plaintiff shall either file the Rule 54(b) motion discussed above, or otherwise resolve the claims against the Defendants 3 || who would not be part of the judgment sought at Doc. 36. 4 Dated this 6th day of June, 2024. 5 6 '

g James A. Teil Org Senior United States District Judge 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28

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