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Case 3:11-cv-00645-RCJ -VPC         Document 20              Filed 02/22/12            Page 1 of 4

 

McMahon LAW OFFICES, LTD.

BRIAN M. McMahon Nevada State Bar No. 00927

3715 Lakeside Drive, Suite A

Reno, NV 89509

Telephone: (775) 348-2701

Facsimile: (775) 348-2702

Email: brian@mamahonlaw.org

 

Fred Hopengarten (pro hac vice pending)

Six Willarch Road

Lincoln, MA 01773

Telephone: (781) 259-0088

Facsimile: (419) 858-2421

Email: hopengarten@post.harvard.edu

Maine Bar No, 1660

D.C. Bar No. 114124

 

Attorneys for Plaintiffs

 

 

IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

STATE {sic} OF NEVADA

 

Case No.: 3:11-CV-00645-RCJ-VPC

 

 

 

THOMAS S. TAORMINA and MIDGE A. TAORMINA,

 

            Plaintiffs,       

vs.

 

STOREY COUNTY, NEVADA, and DOES 1-10,

 

            Defendants.

 

 

 

REPLY IN SUPPORT OF MOTION TO WAIVE LR IA 10-2, PERMITTING COUNSEL TO CONTINUE REPRESENTATION AND NOTICE OF NON-OPPOSITION

 

 

            Plaintiffs, THOMAS S. TAORMINA, and MIDGE A, TAORMINA, by and through their attorneys, Brian M. McMahon, Esq., of McMahon Law Offices, Ltd., and Fred Hopengarten, Esq., of the District of Columbia Bar, PRO HAV {sic} VICE PENDING, hereby replies in support of the request that this court waive Local Rule IA 10-2 for this lawsuit and this lawsuit only, so that Fred Hopengarten, Esq., may continue to represent them without further documentation and expense. The original Motion was filed on November 16, 2011. No opposition to this motion has been filed to

 


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date. The parties have met with the Magistrate and this issue came before the Magistrate. It is respectfully requested that this Court enter its order granting this motion to waive LR IA 10-2 permitting counsel, Fred Hopengarten, Esq., to continue representation of the TAORMINAS without further documentation and expense.

 

            As set forth in the original Motion to waive, attorney Hopengarten has already been admitted as pro hac vice in Case Number 3:09-cv-00021-LRH-VPC, on January 29, 2009.  See approved Verified Petition for Permission to Practice in This Case Only by Attorney Not Admitted to the Bar of this Court and Designation of Local Counsel, attached hereto as Exhibit 1.

 

 

Respectfully submitted,

Dated: February 22, 2012.

 

MCMAHON LAW OFFICES, LTD.

 

By  _________________

 

Brian M. McMahon

Attorneys for Plaintiff's

Thomas S. Taormina and

Midge A. Taormina

 

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CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE

 

Pursuant to NRCP 5(b) I hereby certify that I am an employee of McMahon Law Offices, Ltd., and that on the 22 day of February, 2012, I served a true and correct copy of the attached foregoing document by:

 

X         Depositing for mailing, in a sealed enveloped, U.S. Postage prepaid, at Reno, Nevada

 

__        Personal Delivery

 

__        Facsimile

 

__        Federal Express/Airborne Express/Other Overnight Delivery

 

__        Reno-Carson Messenger Service

 

addressed as follows:

 

Brent T. Kolvet, Esq.

Thorndal Armstrong Delk Balkenbush & Eisinger

6590 S. McCarran Boulevard # B

Reno, Nevada 89059

 

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Index to Exhibits

 

Exhibit 1         Verified Petition for Permission to Practice in this Case Only                    7 Pages

                        By Attorney Not Admitted to the Bar of this Court and Designation

                        Of Local Counsel

 

 

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