ORDER GRANTING DEFENDANTS' MOTION FOR SUMMARY JUDGMENT; DENYING PLAINTIFF'S MOTION FOR SUMMARY JUDGMENT; AND FINDING AS MOOT PLAINTIFF'S MOTION TO AMEND JEFFREY S. WHITE, District Judge. Now before the Court is the motion for summary judgment filed by Defendants Venetian Casino Resort, LLC, Las Vegas Sands, LLC and Las Vegas Sands Corporation (collectively "Defendants" or "the Venetian") and the motions for summary judgment and for leave to file an second amended complaint filed by Plaintiff...
ORDER RE: SUMMARY JUDGMENT MOTIONS SUSAN ILLSTON, District Judge. INTRODUCTION Plaintiffs are eleven environmental organizations 1 who have sued the Bureau of Land Management ("BLM") and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service ("FWS"). The BLM manages a vast area of public land known as the California Desert Conservation Area ("CDCA"), home to a number of protected species, including the threatened desert tortoise and an endangered plant, the Lane Mountain milk-vetch. FWS consults with the BLM...
ORDER GRANTING MOTION TO DISMISS CALIFORNIA CAUSES OF ACTION AND DENYING MOTION TO DISMISS FOR FAILURE TO JOIN NECESSARY PARTIES JEFFREY S. WHITE, District Judge. Now before the Court are two motions filed by Defendants SuperShuttle International, Inc. and SuperShuttle Franchise Corporation (collectively "SuperShuttle"). The first is a motion to dismiss all claims based on California law, specifically the second through eleventh claims, pursuant to Federal Rules of Civil Procedure 12(b)(1)...
ORDER CHARLES R. BREYER, District Judge. With this antitrust action, filed over five years ago, Plaintiffs challenge the legitimacy of the fixed interchange fees in the Star ATM network. This case has slowly wound its way through several Judges and multiple rounds of dispositive motions. In the Court's most recent order addressing Defendants' motion for summary judgment, the Court held that the per se rule is inapplicable to Plaintiffs' claim. Plaintiffs then filed their Second Amended...
MEMORANDUM & ORDER MARILYN HALL PATEL, District Judge. Plaintiff Saeed Ahmed challenges the procedures used by the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) to adjudicate plaintiffs application for adjustment of status to lawful permanent resident (LPR). He seeks declaratory and injunctive relief pursuant to the Administrative Procedure Act (APA). Now before the court is defendant Mayorkas's motion to dismiss. 1 Defendant, the director of the USCIS, contends that this court lacks...
ORDER DENYING MOTION TO STRIKE, GRANTING IN PART MOTION TO DISMISS WITH LEAVE TO AMEND, & VACATING ORDER MARILYN L. HUFF, District Judge. On November 4, 2008, Plaintiff Lynn Lyons ("Lyons") filed a class action complaint against Defendant Coxcom, Inc., doing business as Cox Communications, Inc. ("Cox"). (Doc. No. 1, Compl.) On February 6, 2009, 2009 WL 347285, the Court granted Defendant Cox's motion to dismiss and granted Plaintiff leave to amend. (Doc. No. 34.) Plaintiff filed a first...
