JAMES C. MAHAN, District Judge.
Presently before the court is the matter of Las Vegas Sands Corp. v. Chen et al., case number 2:20-cv-00472-JCM-VCF. On March 6, 2020, plaintiff Las Vegas Sands Corp. ("plaintiff") filed its ex parte motion for alternative service, temporary restraining order, and preliminary injunction. (ECF Nos. 3; 5; 6).
Plaintiff filed the same motion three separate times to side-step Local Rule IC 2-2(b), which provides that "[f]or each type of relief requested or purpose of the document, a separate document must be filed and a separate event must be selected for that document." LR IC 2-2(b). The court hereby strikes all three documents as a violation of Local Rule IC 2-2(b).
Plaintiff's amalgam-motion also violates Local Rule IA 6-2, which provides that ex parte motions must include an order "on which the court or clerk can endorse approval of the relief sought." LR IA 6-2. The court finds it inappropriate to grant the motion for preliminary injunction before the parties have had an opportunity to brief the issue, and yet plaintiff's proposed order grants its motion for preliminary injunction while simultaneously setting a briefing schedule and hearing thereon; to compound the issue, the proposed order also grants plaintiff's motion for alternative service. (ECF Nos. 3-5; 5-5; 6-5).
Accordingly,
IT IS HEREBY ORDERED, ADJUDGED, and DECREED that plaintiff's ex parte motion for alternative service, temporary restraining order, and preliminary injunction (ECF Nos. 3; 5; 6) be, and the same hereby are, STRICKEN.
IT IS FURTHER ORDERED that plaintiff shall refile its motions with proposed orders granting each individually, rather than collectively, within seven (7) days of this order.