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MICHAEL BAILEY

United States Attorney

District of Arizona

KEVIN M. RAPP (Ariz. Bar No. 014249, kevin.rapp@usdoj.gov)

MARGARET PERLMETER (Ariz. Bar No. 024805, margaret.perlmeter@usdoj.gov)

PETER S. KOZINETS (Ariz. Bar No. 019856, peter.kozinets@usdoj.gov) 

ANDREW C. STONE (Ariz. Bar No. 026543, andrew.stone@usdoj.gov)

Assistant U.S. Attorneys

40 N. Central Avenue, Suite 1800

Phoenix, Arizona 85004-4408

Telephone (602) 514-7500

DAN G. BOYLE (N.Y. Bar No. 5216825, daniel.boyle2@usdoj.gov) 

Special Assistant U.S. Attorney

312 N. Spring Street, Suite 1400 Los Angeles, CA 90012

Telephone (213) 894-2426

BRIAN C. RABBITT 

Assistant Attorney General 

Criminal Division, U.S. Department of Justice

REGINALD E. JONES (Miss. Bar No. 102806, reginald.jones4@usdoj.gov) 

Senior Trial Attorney, U.S. Department of Justice

Child Exploitation and Obscenity Section 

950 Pennsylvania Ave N.W., Room 2116

Washington, D.C. 20530

Telephone (202) 616-2807 

Attorneys for Plaintiff

IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

FOR THE DISTRICT OF ARIZONA

United States of America,

Plaintiff, 

v. 

Michael Lacey, et al.,

Defendants.

No. CR-18-422-PHX-SMB

UNITED STATES’ SECOND NOTICE 

RE: DECEMBER 4, 2020 

TELEPHONIC MOTION HEARING 

ON DEFENDANTS’ MOTION TO 

STAY (Doc. 1092)

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Over the weekend, the United States learned of the attached declaration, filed in the 

Eastern District of Missouri on August 26, 2017, regarding the August 16, 2017 letter from 

the National Association of Attorneys General to Congress submitted as Exhibit 9 to the 

Motion for Recusal.1 The declaration was filed in litigation against the Missouri Attorney 

General handled by the same three lawyers from Davis Wright Tremaine LLP who are 

among Defendants’ counsel of record here.

2 It has one exhibit: the August 16, 2017 letter.

Respectfully submitted this 14th day of December, 2020.

MICHAEL BAILEY

United States Attorney

District of Arizona

s/ Peter S. Kozinets

KEVIN M. RAPP

MARGARET PERLMETER

PETER S. KOZINETS

ANDREW C. STONE

Assistant U.S. Attorneys

DAN G. BOYLE

Special Assistant U.S. Attorney

BRIAN C. RABBITT 

Assistant Attorney General 

U.S. Department of Justice, Criminal Division

REGINALD E. JONES

Senior Trial Attorney

U.S. Department of Justice, Criminal Division

Child Exploitation and Obscenity Section

 

1 Compare Doc. 1059-10, Exhibit 9 with Docs. 35 and 35-1 in Backpage.com, LLC v. 

Hawley, 4:17-CV-1951 PLC (attached as Exhibit A hereto).

2 See Backpage.com, LLC v. Hawley, 4:17-CV-1951 PLC, 2017 WL 5726868, at *1 (E.D. 

Mo. Nov. 28, 2017). None of the DWT lawyers signed the “Joint Declaration” attached to the Reply in Support of Motion for Recusal, Doc. 1071-2.

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CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE

I hereby certify that on December 14, 2020, I electronically transmitted the attached 

document to the Clerk’s Office using the CM/ECF System for filing and transmittal of a 

Notice of Electronic Filing to the CM/ECF registrants who have entered their appearance 

as counsel of record.

s/ Joy Faraj Joy Faraj

U.S. Attorney’s Office

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