The opinion
District Attorney
2 CIVIL DIVISION
State Bar No. 001565
3 By: JEFFREY S. ROGAN
Deputy District Attorney
4 State Bar No. 010734
500 South Grand Central Pkwy. 5th Flr.
5 Las Vegas, Nevada 89155-2215
Telephone: (702) 455-4761
6 Fax: (702) 382-5178
E-Mail: Jeffrey.Rogan@ClarkCountyDA.com
7 Attorneys for Defendants Clark County,
the Clark County District Attorney’s Office,
8 and Steve Wolfson
9 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
10 DISTRICT OF NEVADA
11 Marlon Lorenzo Brown, )
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12 Plaintiff, ) Case No: 2:17-cv-02396-APG-BNW
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13 vs. )
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14 City Of Las Vegas, Nevada; Las Vegas ) STIPULATION TO STAY
Metropolitan Police Department ) DISCOVERY
15 (LVMPD); Clark County; Clark County )
District Attorney’s Office; Steve )
16 WOLFSON; Danae Adams; Bruce Nelson; )
Joseph Lombardo; Dante Tromba; Does )
17 and Roes 1-20, )
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18 Defendants. )
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20 Defendants Clark County, the Clark County District Attorney’s Office, and Clark
21 County District Attorney Steve Wolfson (the “County Defendants”); the Las Vegas
22 Metropolitan Police Department and Dante Trombe (“LVMPD Defendants”); and Marlon
23 Lorenzo Brown (“Plaintiff”), hereby stipulate as follows:
24 1) Discovery shall be stayed pending ruling on the County Defendants’ and LVMPD
25 Defendants’ Motions to Dismiss, [ECF Nos. 101 and 105], subject to potential lifting of the
26 stay upon terms and conditions that the parties and the court deem just;
27 2) A stay is necessary because these pending Motions involve issues of immunity and
28 adequacy of pleading allegations, and resolution of these Motions does not require further
1 || discovery. Pilger v. Mosley, No. 2:18-cv-00854-JAD-PAL, 2018 WL 5268605, at *2 (D. Ne
2 Oct. 23, 2018) (“The Supreme Court has squarely held that until the threshold issue «
3 ||immunity is resolved, discovery should not proceed.”). A stay of discovery at this time wi
4 ||align with Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 1, which declares that the Rules “should |
5 ||construed, administered, and employed by the court and the parties to secure the jus
6 || speedy, and inexpensive determination of every action and proceeding.”
7 3) The discovery stay shall include all discovery previously served but for which r
8 || response has been made;
9 4) The parties agree that any responses to any outstanding discovery will be made withi
10 || fourteen (14) days of the Court’s ruling on any applicable Motion to Dismiss; if necessary.
11 5) The parties will submit a new proposed Discovery Plan to the Court within fourtee
12 || (14) days of the Court’s ruling on the last filed Motion to Dismiss and the stay will be lifte
13 ||The new discovery plan will include extended deadlines to designate experts, condu
14 || discovery, and file dispositive motions.
15 DATED this 15th day of July, 2022.
16 || KAEMPFER CROWELL MCAVOY AMAYA & REVERO
17 || By: s/Kristopher J. Kalkowski By: s/Michael J. McAvoy-Amaya
LYSSA S. ANDERSON MICHAEL J. McAVOY-AMAYA
18 Nevada Bar No. 5781 Nevada Bar No. 14082
KRISTOPHER J. KALKOWSKI TIMOTHY E. REVERO
19 Nevada Bar No. 14892 Nevada Bar No. 14603
1980 Festival Plaza Drive 400 S. 4th St., Ste. 500
20 Suite 650 Las Vegas, NV 89101
Las Vegas, Nevada 89135 Attorneys for Plaintiff
21 Attorneys for Defendants
Las Vegas Metropolitan Police
22 Devartment and Dante Tromba ORDER
23 11 CLARK COUNTY IT IS SO ORDERED
DATED: 3:56 pm, July 18, 2022
24 || By: 4 Jeffrey S. Rogan
JEFFREY S. ROGAN bao
25 Deputy District Attorney Sr BNE
Nevada Bar No. 010734 BRENDA WEKSLER
26 500 South Grand Central Pkwy. UNITED STATES MAGISTRATE JUDGE
Las Vegas, Nevada 89155-2215
27 Attorney for Defendants Clark
8 County, the Clark County District
2 Attorney’s Office, and Steve
Wolfson