United States v. Nolen ( 2024 )

1 KRISTEN CLARKE Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights 2 CARRIE PAGNUCCO Chief 3 MEGAN K. WHYTE DE VASQUEZ Deputy Chief 4 ARIELLE R. L. REID ALAN A. MARTINSON 5 KATHERINE A. RAIMONDO Trial Attorneys 6 Housing and Civil Enforcement Section United States Department of Justice 7 950 Pennsylvania Avenue NW Washington, DC 20530 8 Tel: (202) 598-1575 9 PHILLIP A. TALBERT United States Attorney 10 EMILIA P. E. MORRIS Assistant United States Attorney 11 Eastern District of California 2500 Tulare Street, Suite 4401 12 Fresno, CA 93721 Tel: (559) 497-4000 13 Attorneys for Plaintiff United States of America 14 Douglas B. Jacobs SBN 084153 15 Andrea M. Wieder SBN 339490 JACOBS, ANDERSON, POTTER, 16 HARVEY & CECIL, LLP 20 Independence Circle 17 Chico, CA 95973 Phone: 530-342-6144 18 Fax: 530-342-6310 djacobs@japhclaw.com 19 awieder@japhclaw.com 20 Attorney for Defendants, NANCY CANALE and 21 NANCY CANALE AS TRUSTEE OF THE BERNARD CANALE AND NANCY CANALE 1998 REVOCABLE TRUST 22 23 24 25 26 27 1 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 2 EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 3 ) Case No: 2:23-cv-00320-JAM-CKD 4 UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, ) ) STIPULATION AND ORDER OF 5 Plaintiff, ) DISMISSAL OF NANCY CANALE, AS ) TRUSTEE OF THE BERNARD CANALE 6 vs. ) AND NANCY CANALE 1998 ) REVOCABLE TRUST, AND BERNARD 7 ) CANALE, BY AND THROUGH HIS JOEL LYNN NOLEN; SHIRLEE NOLEN; ) SUCCESSOR IN INTEREST NANCY 8 NOLEN PROPERTIES, LLC; NANCY ) CANALE CANALE, as trustee of the Bernard Canale ) 9 and Nancy Canale 1998 Revocable Trust; and ) BERNARD CANALE, by and through his ) 10 successor in interest NANCY CANALE. ) ) 11 Defendants. ) ) 12 13 Pursuant to the Court’s Order of September 27, 2024 (ECF No. 77), Plaintiff United 14 States of America (the “United States”) and Defendants Nancy Canale, as trustee of the Bernard 15 Canale and Nancy Canale 1998 Revocable Trust, and Defendant Bernard Canale, by and through 16 his successor in interest Nancy Canale (the “Canale Defendants”), submit this Stipulation of 17 Dismissal pursuant to Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 41(a)1: 18 1. On September 19, 2024, the United States and the Canale Defendants submitted a 19 proposed Consent Order resolving the United States’ claims against the Canale Defendants, for 20 entry by this Court. ECF No. 68. 21 2. On September 27, 2024, the Court entered the Consent Order. ECF No. 78. 22 3. As provided in Paragraph 26 of the Consent Order, the Court shall retain 23 jurisdiction for a period of five (5) years after entry of the Consent Order, for the purpose of 24 enforcing or interpreting the provisions of the Consent Order. 25 26 1 Although Rule 41 speaks in terms of dismissal of actions, the Rule may be used to dismiss all 27 claims against individual defendants without dismissing the entire action. See Pedrina v. Chun, 987 F.2d 608, 609-10 (9th Cir. 1993). 1 4. Therefore, the United States and the Canale Defendants submit that all claims 2 against the Canale Defendants should be dismissed without prejudice to the United States’ right 3 to seek the Court’s intervention to resolve any disputes as to the Consent Order. 4 5. This Stipulation of Dismissal is not intended in any way to affect the pendency of 5 claims in this Civil Action against defendants other than the Canale Defendants. 6 7 Dated this 3rd day of October, 2024. 8 Respectfully submitted, 9 For the United States: 10 PHILLIP A. TALBERT KRISTEN CLARKE United States Attorney Assistant Attorney General 11 Eastern District of California Civil Rights Division 12 13 /s/ Emilia P.E. Morris /s/ Arielle R.L. Reid EMILIA P. E. MORRIS CARRIE PAGNUCCO 14 Assistant United States Attorney Chief MEGAN K. WHYTE DE VASQUEZ 15 Deputy Chief 16 ARIELLE R. L. REID ALAN A. MARTINSON 17 KATHERINE A. RAIMONDO Trial Attorneys 18 For NANCY CANALE, as trustee of the Bernard Canale and Nancy Canale 1998 Revocable 19 Trust; and BERNARD CANALE, by and through his successor in interest NANCY CANALE: 20 JACOBS, ANDERSON, POTTER, 21 HARVEY & CECIL, LLP 22 /s/ Andrea M. Wieder 23 Andrea M. Wieder 24 25 26 27 1 ORDER 2 The stipulation is APPROVED. 3 Defendants Nancy Canale, as trustee of the Bernard Canale and Nancy Canale 1998 4 Revocable Trust, and Defendant Bernard Canale, by and through his successor in interest Nancy 5 Canale (the “Canale Defendants), are DISMISSED from the case without prejudice to the 6 United States’ right to seek the Court’s intervention to resolve any disputes as to the Consent 7 Order between the United States and the Canale Defendants (ECF No. 78). 8 Upon the expiration of the Consent Order, the Canale Defendants shall be DISMISSED 9 with prejudice. 10 SO ORDERED. 11 12 Dated: October 03, 2024 /s/ John A. Mendez THE HONORABLE JOHN A. MENDEZ 13 SENIOR UNITED STATES DISTRICT JUDGE 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27