Bartell Ranch LLC et al v. McCullough et al, No. 3:2021cv00080 - Document 91 (D. Nev. 2021)

Court Description: ORDER granting ECF No. 90 Motion to Amend/Correct. Proposed Joint Discovery/Scheduling Order due by September 10, 2021. Signed by Chief Judge Miranda M. Du on 8/31/2021. (Copies have been distributed pursuant to the NEF - SMR)

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Bartell Ranch LLC et al v. McCullough et al Doc. 91 Case 3:21-cv-00080-MMD-CLB Document 91 Filed 08/31/21 Page 1 of 6 1 2 3 TODD KIM Assistant Attorney General Environment and Natural Resources Division United States Department of Justice 8 ARWYN CARROLL (MA Bar 675926) LEILANI DOKTOR (HI Bar 11201) Natural Resources Section P.O. Box 7611 Washington, D.C. 20044-7611 Phone: (202) 305-0465 Fax: (202) 305-0506 arwyn.carroll@usdoj.gov leilani.doktor@usdoj.gov 9 Attorneys for Federal Defendants 4 5 6 7 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT DISTRICT OF NEVADA 10 11 12 BARTELL RANCH LLC, et al., Plaintiffs, 13 14 15 Case No. 3:21-cv-80-MMD-CLB Related Case No. 3:21-cv-103-MMD-CLB (Consolidated) v. ESTER M. MCCULLOUGH, et al., Defendants. 16 17 18 WESTERN WATERSHEDS PROJECT, et al., 19 20 21 22 23 Plaintiffs, ORDER RE: JOINT MOTION TO AMEND SCHEDULING ORDER (FIRST REQUEST) v. UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR, et al., Defendants. 24 25 26 27 28 Dockets.Justia.com Case 3:21-cv-00080-MMD-CLB Document 91 Filed 08/31/21 Page 2 of 6 1 2 On July 28, 2021, the Court consolidated the two separate cases, Bartell Ranch LLC v. McCullough, Case No. 3:21-cv-00080-MMD-CLB (“Bartell Ranch”) and Western Watersheds 3 Project, et al., Case No. 3:21-cv-00103-MMD-CLB (“Western Watersheds”) involving 4 5 challenges to the Thacker Pass Record of Decision issued in January 2021. The Court ordered 6 that the case schedules and page limits that the Court set in the Western Watersheds (ECF Nos 7 28 at 4-6, 47) apply. ECF 60. 8 In accordance with that schedule, Federal Defendants timely produced the 9 administrative record for the initial claims as filed prior to Plaintiff-Intervenors who filed their 10 11 motion for intervention on July 20, 2021 (the “Initial Claims”). The parties are continuing the 12 meet and confer process regarding the administrative record produced by the Federal 13 Defendants for the Initial Claims and Federal Defendants are compiling the administrative 14 record on the additional claims brought by Plaintiff-Intervenors under the National Historic 15 Preservation Act (the “NHPA Claims”). The parties jointly propose a brief extension of the 16 17 18 19 20 meet and confer process in order to attempt to resolve issues on the pending administrative record and work together in an effort to propose further schedule modifications to the Court. WHEREAS, the parties to this consolidated case previously submitted Case Management Reports and Stipulations pursuant to Fed. R. Civ. Proc. 16 and the Court’s Orders 21 Re: Case Management Report; 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 WHEREAS, as described above, upon ordering consolidation, the Court also ordered that the case schedules and page limits set in the Western Watersheds case apply; WHEREAS the Federal Defendants are in the process of compiling the administrative record in light of Plaintiff-Intervenors’ recently asserted claims under the the National Historic Case 3:21-cv-00080-MMD-CLB Document 91 Filed 08/31/21 Page 3 of 6 1 Preservation Act and the Federal Defendants informed the parties that it anticipates producing 2 such record to the parties by October 1, 2021; 3 WHEREAS, the first deadline for the parties to meet and confer regarding any 4 5 6 7 8 outstanding issues or disputes regarding the content of the administrative record was August 27, 2021; WHEREAS, the parties have been meeting and conferring about outstanding issues regarding the content of the administrative record; 9 WHEREAS, on August 25, 2021, during a teleconference all parties agreed to extend all 10 11 12 13 14 litigation deadlines by two weeks in an effort to resolve outstanding issues and possibly avoid the need for motion practice on the administrative record; WHEREAS the parties agree to submit an updated proposed scheduling order to the Court by no later than September 10, 2021, at which time the parties expect a more informed 15 proposal from the meet and confer process for the administrative record and summary judgment 16 17 18 19 20 briefing, and WHEREAS the parties informed the Court of this anticipated motion during the hearing held on August 27, 2021 THEREFORE, the Parties agree and stipulate that the following deadlines would apply: 21 1. Parties shall conclude the meet and confer process on the administrative record Federal 22 23 Defendants have produced on the Initial Claims by no later than September 10, 2021. 24 2. In the interim, all other currently existing deadlines shall be extended by 14 days. 25 3. The Parties shall submit an updated scheduling report to the Court by no later than 26 September 10, 2021 proposing a briefing schedule with extended deadlines from those 27 currently established, and which will be informed by the progress made during the 28 Case 3:21-cv-00080-MMD-CLB Document 91 Filed 08/31/21 Page 4 of 6 1 additional two week meet and confer period. At that time, the parties will inform the Court 2 whether they have been able to resolve issues with the administrative record, or will 3 include in the proposed briefing schedule a proposed s schedule for briefing any motions 4 5 on the administrative record. 6 7 Respectfully submitted this 31st day of August, 2021. 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 /s/ Dominic M. Carollo DOMINIC M. CAROLLO Admitted Pro Hac Vice dcarollo@carollolegal.com Carollo Law Group LLC P.O. Box 2456 630 SE Jackson Street, Suite 1 Roseburg, Oregon 97470 Ph: (541) 957-5900 Fax: (541) 957-5923 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 O. KENT MAHER (Nev. Bar No. 316) kent@winnemuccalaw.com PO Box 130 33 W Fourth Street Winnemucca, Nevada 89446 Ph: (775) 623-5277 Fax: (775) 623-2468 Local Counsel for Plaintiffs Attorneys for Plaintiffs Edward Bartell and Bartell Ranch, LLC 22 23 24 25 26 /s/ Christopher Mixson Christopher Mixson (NV Bar#10685) KEMP JONES, LLP 3800 Howard Hughes Parkway, Suite 1700 Las Vegas, Nevada 89169 (702) 385-6000 c.mixson@kempjones.com 27 28 Attorney for Plaintiffs GBRW, BRW, WD, and WWP TODD KIM Assistant Attorney General United States Department of Justice Environment and Natural Resources Div. /s/ Arwyn Carroll ARWYN CARROLL (MA Bar 675926) LEILANI DOKTOR (HI Bar 11201) Trial Attorney Natural Resources Section P.O. Box 7611 Washington, D.C. 20044-7611 Phone: 202-305-0465 Fax: 202-305-0506 arwyn.carroll@usdoj.gov leilani.doktor@usdoj.gov Attorneys for Federal Defendants /s/ Laura K. Granier Laura K. Granier, Esq (SBN 7357) Erica K. Nannini, Esq (SBN 13922) Holland & Hart LLP 5441 Kietzke Lane, 2nd Floor Reno, Nevada 89511 Tel: 775-327-3000 Fax: 775-786-6179 lkgranier@hollandhart.com eknannini@hollandhart.com Hadassah M. Reimer, Esq (Wyo. Bar No. 6-3825) Admitted Pro Hac Vice Case 3:21-cv-00080-MMD-CLB Document 91 Filed 08/31/21 Page 5 of 6 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 /s/ Roger Flynn Roger Flynn, (Colo. Bar #21078), Pro Hac Vice Jeffrey C. Parsons, (Colo. Bar #30210), Pro Hac Vice WESTERN MINING ACTION PROJECT P.O. Box 349, 440 Main St., #2 Lyons, CO 80540 (303) 823-5738 wmap@igc.org Attorneys for Plaintiffs GBRW, BRW, and WD 9 10 11 12 13 14 /s/ Talasi Brooks Talasi B. Brooks (ISB #9712), Pro Hac Vice Western Watersheds Project P.O. Box 2863 Boise ID 83701 (208) 336-9077 tbrooks@westernwatersheds.org Attorney for Plaintiff WWP 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 /s/ William Falk William Falk, Esq (Utah Bar No. 16678) 2980 Russet Sky Trail Castle Rock, CO 80101 (319) 830-6086 falkwilt@gmail.com Julie Cavanaugh-Bill (State Bar No. 11533) Cavanaugh-Bill Law Offices Henderson Bank Building 401 Railroad Street, Suite 307 Elko, NV 89801 (775) 753-4357 julie@cblawoffices.org Terry J. Lodge, Esq. (Ohio Bar No. 29271) 316 N. Michigan St., Suite 520 Toledo, OH 43604-5627 (419) 205-7084 tjlodge50@yahoo.com Holland & Hart LLP P.O. Box 68 Jackson, WY 83001 Tel: 307-734-4517 Fax: 307-739-9544 hmreimer@hollandhart.com Attorneys for Defendant-Intervenor Lithium Nevada Corp. Case 3:21-cv-00080-MMD-CLB Document 91 Filed 08/31/21 Page 6 of 6 1 2 Attorneys for Intervening Plaintiffs the RenoSparks Indian Colony and Atsa koodakuh wyh Nuwu/People of Red Mountain 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 /s/Rick Eichstaedt Rick Eichstaedt (Washington Bar No. 36487) WHEAT LAW OFFICES 25 West Main Avenue, Suite 320 Spokane, Washington 99201 Telephone: (509) 251-1424 Email: rick@wheatlawoffice.com Louis M. Bubala III (Nevada Bar No. 8974) KAEMPFER CROWELL 50 West Liberty Street, Suite 700 Reno, Nevada 89501 Telephone: (775) 852-3900 Facsimile: (775) 327-2011 Email: lbubala@kcnvlaw.com 13 14 Attorneys for Plaintiff-Intervenor Burns Paiute Tribe 15 16 17 ORDER 18 19 IT IS SO ORDERED 20 21 31st day of August, 2021 DATED this _____ 22 23 24 ________________________________________ 25 CHIEF JUDGE MIRANDA DU 26 27 28 UNITED STATES DISTRICT JUDGE

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