Opinion
2:22-cv-01039-APG-DJA
11-02-2022
Joseph O'Shaughnessy, et al., Plaintiffs, v. United States of America, et al., Defendants.
MERRICK GARL and United States Attorney General, BROCK HEATHCOTTE Arizona State Bar No. 014466, Special Assistant United States Attorney, Acting Under Authority Conferred by 28 U.S.C. § 515, NEIL SINGH Arizona State Bar No. 021327 Special Assistant U.S. Attorneys, Attorneys for Defendant United States
MERRICK GARL and United States Attorney General, BROCK HEATHCOTTE Arizona State Bar No. 014466, Special Assistant United States Attorney, Acting Under Authority Conferred by 28 U.S.C. § 515, NEIL SINGH Arizona State Bar No. 021327 Special Assistant U.S. Attorneys, Attorneys for Defendant United States
UNOPPOSED MOTION TO EXTEND TIME TO FILE RESPONSIVE PLEADING
(SECOND REQUESTED EXTENSION)
Defendant United States of America hereby moves pursuant to Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 6(b)(1) and Local Rule LR IA 6-1, for a 17-day extension of time to November 21, 2022, to file a responsive pleading to Plaintiff's Complaint (Doc. 1). Plaintiffs do not oppose this motion. This is Defendant's second requested extension of time in this matter. Defendant previously moved unopposed for an extension to November 4, 2022 due to counsel's heavy schedule, trial, and vacation. (Doc. 19.) That motion was granted by Court order. (Doc. 21.)
The reason for this second requested extension is that counsel Heathcotte for the United States was ordered by the court in another matter to produce supplemental briefing due November 8, 2022, and co-counsel Singh has unexpectedly been assigned to handle a trial in another matter he has never worked on beginning Monday November 7, 2022, due to another AUSAs sudden leave for a death in the family. For these reasons, counsel seek additional time to complete Defendant's responsive pleading. The case styled Todd C. Engel v. United States of America, 2:22-cv-01040-JCM-NJK concerns many of the same events and the same attorneys as the above captioned case and was filed the same day. An identical unopposed motion to extend has been filed in the Engel case.
Undersigned counsel Heathcotte affirms that Plaintiff's counsel Marquiz consents to the granting of this motion.
For the foregoing reasons, Defendant respectfully requests that the deadline to file a responsive pleading to the Complaint be extended to November 21, 2022.
RESPECTFULLY SUBMITTED.
ORDER
IT IS SO ORDERED: