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IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

FOR THE DISTRICT OF ARIZONA

United States of America,

Plaintiff,

v. 

Michael Lacey, et al.,

Defendants.

No. CR-18-00422-001-PHX-DJH

ORDER 

Pending before the Court is the Defendants’ Joint Motion Requesting Status 

Conference (“Joint Motion”) (Doc. 1378).1 

1. Hearing Dates

Defendants ask the Court to set hearing dates for their pending motions, although 

not fully briefed. The Court, by prior separate minute entry, set December 3, 2021, for oral 

argument on Defendants’ Motion to Dismiss (Doc. 1355). (Doc. 1376). To the extent that 

the Court believes any other pending motion requires oral argument, the Court will set a 

tentative hearing date. Accordingly, counsel are to meet and confer on which date/times 

they are available and file a notice of same with the Court by November 12, 2021:

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• December 13, 2021 [1:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m.]

• December 20, 2021 [1:30 – 4:00 p.m.]

1 By separate Order, the Court construed a portion of this Joint Motion to be a Motion for 

Recusal and provided an opportunity for additional briefing on the issues raised therein. 

(Doc. 1379). This Order addresses the remaining requests in the Joint Motion. 

2 Note that these are the only available dates on the Court’s calendar. Further, the Court 

will permit out-of-state counsel to appear via ZOOM and only one counsel per party will 

be permitted to argue any singular motion. 

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• December 21 or 22, 2021 [1:30 – 4:00 p.m.]

2. Jury Questionnaires

The Defendants also ask the Court to address “the scheduling out of mailing out the 

jury questionnaires.” The date of mailing has been set by the U.S. District Court Jury 

Administrator as December 15, 2021, at the latest. The Court is aware of the parties’ fullybriefed and requested changes to the jury screening questionnaire and the Court will submit 

its intended changes to the parties upon its revision. Prior Order of the Court (Doc. 1336) 

set January 31, 2022, as the status conference to review completed questionnaires for 

hardship. The Court will not change that setting. 

3. Clarification of Trial Schedule 

Regarding the Trial Schedule, by separate Order (1374), the Court “inform[ed] the 

parties that it intends to hold them to the . . . trial dates previously set by Judge Brnovich[.]” 

That Order clearly means what it says, that any trial and non-trial dates agreed to by Judge 

Brnovich prior to this Court’s assignment, are firm (to include Gary Lincenberg’s and Paul 

Cambria’s travel dates).

In accordance with the above, 

IT IS ORDERED that Defendants’ Joint Motion Requesting Status Conference 

(Doc. 1378) is denied. 

IT IS FURTHER ORDERED that the parties are to meet and confer regarding 

their availability for possible hearing times on their pending motions, and notify the Court 

as to their availability by November 12, 2021. 

Dated this 5th day of November, 2021.

Honorable Diane J. Humetewa

United States District Judge

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