1 ADAMPAUL LAXALT REC’D FILED Attorney General 2 LAWRENCE VANDYKE(Nev. Bar No. 13643C) 2OIEJAN15 PH3:1i6 Solicitor General [ 3 JOSEPH TARTAKOVSKY(Nev. Bar No. 13796C) SUSAN cLEic Deputy Solicitor General •GRfBBL 4 KETAN D. BHIRUD (Nev. Bar No. 10515) Head of Complex Litigation 5 Office of the Attorney General 100 N. Carson St. 6 Carson City, 89701 (775) 684-1100 7 [email protected] [email protected] 8 KBhirudag.nv.gov 9 PAUL D. CLEMENT (D.C. Bar No. 433215)* 10 Bancroft PLLC 500 New Jersey Ave., NW 11 Seventh Floor Washington, DC 20001 12 (202) 234-0090 [email protected] *Motion 13 for admission pro hac vice pending Ou— .n >= 14 Attorneys for Defendant . a) 15 0 = ? IN THE FIRST JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT OF THE STATE OF NEVADA 16 IN AND FOR CARSON CITY 17 HELLEN QUAN LOPEZ, et al., Case No. 15-OC-00207-1B 18 Plaintiffs, Dept. No. II 19 v. 20 , in his official capacity as 21 Treasurer of the State of Nevada, 22 Defendant. 23 DEFENDANT’S NOTICE OF APPEAL

24 Notice is hereby given that DAN SCHWARTZ, defendant above named, hereby 25 appeals to the of Nevada from the Order Granting Motion for Preliminary

26 Injunction entered in this action on the 1 day of January, 2016. 27 III 28 III

1 1 The Nevada Supreme Court has jurisdiction to hear this appeal, as an order granting

2 an injunction is appealable under Nevada Rule of Appellate Procedure 3A(b)(3).

3 DATED this th15 day of January, 2016.

Respectfully submitted,

Adam 6 Attorney General

7 By: Lawrere JanDyke 8 Solicitor General g Joseph Tartakovsky Deputy Solicitor General 10 Ketan Bhirud Head of Complex Litigation 11 OFFICE OF THE ATTORNEY GENERAL 12 100 North Carson Street Carson City, NV 89701-4717 13 (775)684-1100 LVanDykeag.nv.gov > 14 JTartakovsky©ag.nv.gov KBhirudag.nv.gov c’ 15 = = 0 16 Paul D. Clement* BANcROFT PLLC 17 500 New Jersey Avenue, NW Seventh Floor 18 Washington, DC 20001 19 (202) 234-0090 [email protected] 20 *Motion for admission pro hac vice forthcoming 21 22 Attorneys for Defendants 23 24 25 26 27 28

2 1 CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE

2 Pursuant to NRCP 5(b), I hereby certify that I am an employee of the State of Nevada, 5th 3 Office of the Attorney General, and that on this 1 day of January, I deposited for mailing at 4 Carson City, Nevada, a true and correct copy of the foregoing NOTICE OF APPEAL,

5 addressed to:

6 DON SPRINGMEYER, ESQ. JUSTIN C. JONES, ESQ. 7 BRADLEYS. SCHRAGER, ESQ. WOLF, RIFKIN, SHAPIRO, SCHULMAN & RABKIN,LLP 8 3556 E. RUSSELL ROAD, SECOND FLOOR LAS VEGAS, NEVADA89120 9 DAVIDG. SCIARRA, ESQ. 10 AMANDAMORGAN, ESQ. EDUCATION LAWCENTER 11 60 PARK PLACE, SUITE 300 NEWARK, NEW JERSEY 07102 12 TAMERLINJ. GODLEY, ESQ. 13 THOMASPAULCLANCY,ESQ. - LAURAE. MATHE, ESQ. 14 SAMUELT. BOYD, ESQ. MUNGER, TOLLES & OLSON, LLPTH 15 355 SOUTH GRAND AVENUE, 35 FLOOR LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA 90071-1560 16 MATTHEWT. DUSHOFF, ESQ. 17 LISA J. ZASTROW, ESQ. KOLESAR & LEATHAM 18 400 SOUTH RAMPART BOULEVARD, SUITE 400 LAS VEGAS, NEVADA89145 19 TIMOTHY D. KELLER -rn INSTITUTE FOR JUSTICE 398 S. MILLAVENUE, SUITE 301 21 TEMPE, ARIZONA 85281

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