Acuity A Mutual Insurance Company v. NAB, LLC ( 2023 )

1 2 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 3 DISTRICT OF NEVADA 4 * * * 5 Acuity A Mutual Insurance Company, Case No. 2:23-cv-01366-RFB-DJA 6 Plaintiff, 7 Order v. 8 NAB LLC dba NAB Nail Salon dba NAB Nail 9 Bar, a Nevada limited liability company; Asia Trinh, an individual; Nicole Brown, an 10 individual; et al., 11 Defendants. 12 13 This matter is before the Court on the Court’s review of the docket. Defendant NAB LLC 14 dba NAB Nail Salon dba NAB Nail Bar has not appeared in this action through counsel. Instead, 15 Defendants Asia Trinh and Nicole Brown have filed various documents pro se on their own 16 behalf and on behalf of NAB. However, because it is a company, NAB must retain counsel to 17 proceed in this action. See Reading Intern., Inc. v. Malulani Group, Ltd., 814 F.3d 1046, 1053 18 (9th Cir. 2016) (explaining that corporations must be represented by counsel). The Court will 19 thus require NAB to retain counsel. 20 IT IS THEREFORE ORDERED that NAB LLC dba NAB Nail Salon dba NAB Nail 21 Bar must retain counsel on or before January 11, 2024. NAB must either file a status report 22 regarding their retention of counsel, or NAB’s counsel must file a notice of appearance, on or 23 before January 11, 2024. Failure to comply with this order will result in a recommendation 24 for default to the district judge. 25 DATED: December 12, 2024 26 27 DANIEL J. ALBREGTS