Nall v. Adamson ( 2021 )

Attorney General 2 KATLYN M. BRADY (Bar No. 14173) Senior Deputy Attorney General 3 State of Nevada Office of the Attorney General 4 555 E. Washington Ave., Ste. 3900 Las Vegas, Nevada 89101 5 (702) 486-0661 (phone) (702) 486-3773 (fax) 6 Email: katlynbrady@ag.nv.gov 7 Attorneys for Defendants Dr. Romeo Aranas and Dr. Michael Minev 8 9 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 10 DISTRICT OF NEVADA 11 TYRONE T.H. NALL, Case No. 3:19-cv-00054-MMD-CLB 12 Plaintiff, DEFENDANTS’ MOTION FOR AN 13 vs. EXTENSION OF TIME TO FILE A REPLY TO PLAINTIFF’S OPPOSITION 14 KIM ADAMSON, et al., (ECF NO. 66) (FIRST REQUEST) 15 Defendants. 16 Defendants, Romeo Aranas and Michael Minev, by and through counsel, Aaron D. 17 Ford, Attorney General of the State of Nevada, and Katlyn M. Brady, Senior Deputy 18 Attorney General, request this Court extend the deadline to respond from August 11, 2021, 19 to September 10, 2021.1 20 I. INTRODUCTION 21 Defendants request this Court extend the deadline to respond to Plaintiff’s 22 opposition from August 11, 2021, to September 10, 2021. Defendants assert good cause 23 supports this extension as prior counsel left state employment on July 27, 2021, and thus 24 this matter requires reassignment. As one Deputy Attorney General and another Senior 25 Deputy Attorney General have been on leave for several weeks, this matter was reassigned 26 to Senior Deputy Attorney General Katlyn M. Brady. 27 1 Defendants request a 30-day extension to ensure there is no need for a second 28 extension request. 2 This matter is an inmate civil rights issue based upon Plaintiff’s allegations that 3 Defendants denied Plaintiff necessary medication based on a policy of denying certain 4 neuronin prescriptions. ECF NO. 10 at 10:25-26. 5 Following a discovery period, both parties filed competing motions for summary 6 judgment. ECF Nos. 44 and 45. Both parties then filed timely oppositions. ECF Nos. 55 7 and 66. 8 The deadline for Defendants to file a reply in support of their motion for summary 9 judgment is August 11, 2021. 10 On July 27, 2021, prior defense counsel left state employment. As a result, this 11 matter needed to be reassigned to a new attorney in the Public Safety Division. However, 12 one Deputy Attorney General was on extended leave to take the Nevada Bar exam and a 13 Senior Deputy Attorney General is on paternity leave. Due to the short staffing concerns, 14 this matter was reassigned to Senior Deputy Attorney General Katlyn M. Brady. 15 SDAG Brady additionally received nearly 20 cases as a result of the prior counsel’s 16 departure. Despite attempting to work on this reply, when not otherwise occupied with 17 other deadlines, counsel was unable to complete the reply. Due to forthcoming deadlines, 18 counsel is unlikely to complete this deadline despite working over weekends and spending 19 10-12 hours working per day. Defendants therefore request this Court extend the deadline 20 to respond from August 11, 2021, to September 10, 2021. 21 III. LEGAL ARGUMENT 22 Federal Rules of Civil Procedure 6(B)(1) holds a court may extend time to respond 23 upon a showing of good cause. Under Rule 6, good cause is not a rigorous or high standard. 24 Ahanchion v. Kenan Pictures, 624 F.3d 1253, 1259 (9th Cir. 2010). 25 Defendants assert good cause supports this extension. As prior counsel is no longer 26 employed with the Attorney General’s Office, undersigned counsel must finish 27 familiarizing herself with the pleadings in this matter, the discovery provided, and the 28 arguments contained within the dispositive motions. Counsel can then complete a 1 ||competent and sufficient reply brief that addresses all necessary arguments. Further, 2 ||counsel has requested a 30-day extension to ensure the reply is completed without 3 || additional requests for an extension. 4||IV. CONCLUSION 5 Defendants request this Court extend the deadline to reply due to the recent 6 reassignment of this matter. This extension will allow counsel to familiarize herself with 7 ||this matter and file an appropriate reply. The extension ensures that Defendants can fully 8 fairly brief the matter and not be prejudiced by the reassignment of this matter. 9 || Accordingly, good cause supports granting Defendants’ motion for an extension of time to 10 || file a reply. 11 DATED this 11th day of August, 2021. 12 AARON D. FORD 1B Attorney General By: /s/ Katlyn M. Brady 14 KATLYN M. BRADY (Bar No. 14173) Senior Deputy Attorney General 16 Attorneys for Defendants 17 18 IT IS SO ORDERED. 19 Dated: August 12, 2021 20 ‘ 21 99 UNITED STATES MAGISTRATE JUDGE 23 24 25 26 27 28 2 I certify that I am an employee of the State of Nevada, Office of the Attorney General, 3 and that on August 11, 2021, I electronically filed the foregoing DEFENDANTS’ MOTION 4 FOR AN EXTENSION OF TIME TO FILE A REPLY TO PLAINTIFF’S 5 OPPOSITION (ECF NO. 66) (FIRST REQUEST) via this Court’s electronic filing 6 system. Parties who are registered with this Court’s electronic filing system will be served 7 electronically. For those parties not registered, service was made by depositing a copy for 8 mailing in the United States Mail, first-class postage prepaid, at Las Vegas, Nevada, 9 addressed to the following: 10 Tyrone Nall, #55462 Lovelock Correctional Center 11 1200 Prison Road Lovelock, Nevada 89419 12 Email: lcclawlibrary@doc.nv.gov Plaintiff, Pro Se 13 14 /s/ Carol A. Knight 15 CAROL A. KNIGHT, an employee of the Office of the Nevada Attorney General 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28