Brazelton v. Rocky Mountain Hospital and Medical Services ( 2024 )

1 Steven P. Brazelton (5883) Nathalie Huynh (5997) 2 |/601S. Arlington Avenue 3 Reno, Nevada 89509 775-826-2380 4 || sbrazelton@brazeltonlaw.com nhuynh@brazeltonlaw.com 5 6 Plaintiffs in Propia Persona 7 8 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 9 STATE OF NEVADA a oie ae 10 STEVEN P. BRAZELTON, an Individual, Case No: 2:24-ev-00004-BNW 12 ||NATHALIE HUYNH, an Individual, and JHB, NO" 2*24-Cv-00994 an individual, 13 14 Plaintiffs, 15 VS. STIPULATION AND ORDER TO PERMIT PLAINTIFF JHB TO PROCEED 16 || ROCKY MOUNTAIN HOSPITAL AND PSEUDONYMOUSLY WW MEDICAL SERVICE, INC., a Colorado Corporation doing business as HMO Nevada, 1g Anthem Blue Cross and/or Blue Shield; HMO Colorado, INC., a Colorado Corporation doing 19 || business as HMO Nevada, Anthem Blue Cross 50 and/or Blue Shield; BLACK CORPORATIONS 1-10, and DOES I-X, Inclusive 21 Defendants. 22 23 24 Plaintiffs STEVEN P. BRAZELTON and NATHALIE HUYNH, in Propia Persona, and Plaintiff 25 ||JHB, by and through her attorneys Steven P. Brazelton and Nathalie Huynh (collectively “Plaintiffs”), 26 Defendants ROCKY MOUNTAIN HOSPITAL AND MEDICAL SERVICE, INC., and HMO 27 || COLORADO, INC., Colorado Corporations (collectively “Defendants”), pursuant to LR 7-1, hereby 2g ||Stipulate and agree, subject to the Court's approval: -|- 1 1. Plaintiff JHB has demonstrated a need for anonymity based upon the allegations in the First 2 Amended Complaint. 3 2. Allowing Plaintiff JHB to proceed pseudonymously is necessary to preserve privacy in a matter 4 involving a sensitive and highly personal nature. See Does I through XXII v. Advancea 5 Textile Corp., 214 F.3d 1058 (9" Cir. 2000). 6 3. Defendants are not prejudiced by Plaintiff JHB proceeding pseudonymously. 7 4. Plaintiff JHB’s name and identity have no bearing on the central issues of this case, and the 8 protection of Plaintiff JHB’s privacy will not impede the public scrutiny of the issues raised 9 by this case. /d. 10 5. Good cause exists to allow Plaintiff JHB to proceed pseudonymously in this litigation. 11 IT IS SO STIPULATED. Le Dated this 25" day of June, 2024 Dated this 25" day of June, 2024 13 By: By: /s/ Thomas C. Hardy 14 //ss// Steven P. Brazelton ReedSmith 15 //ss// Nathalie Huynh By: /s/ Thomas C. Hardy By: Steven P. Brazelton 10 South Wacker Drive, 40th Floor 16 Nathalie Huynh Chicago, Illinois 60606-7507 601 S. Arlington Avenue thardy@reedsmith.com 17 Reno, Nevada 89509 312 207 2427 18 775-826-2380 Attorneys for Detendants Rocky Mountat 19 Plaintiffs in Propia Persona Hospital and Medical Service, Inc. and HM¢ Colorado, Inc. 20 21 22 23 IT IS SO ORDERED. 25 Dated this 1 dayof July , 2024. 26 gw lance fal UNITED STATES MAGISTRATE JUDGE 28 Case No.: 2:24-cv-00994-BNW -2- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE 2 3 Pursuant to FRCP 5(b), on June 28, 2024 the foregoing document entitled: Sapulation and Order 4 || was served via electronic service through the United States District Court for the District of Nevada’s ECF ° system and pursuant to Rule26(a)(1) on the following parties: 6 7 || Tamara Beatty Peterson tpeterson@petersonbaker.com 8 ||Tom Hardy 9 thardy@reedsmith.com 10 By: //ss// Steven P. Brazelton Steven P. Brazelton 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 A.