DISTRICT COURT OF THE VIRGIN ISLANDS 
DIVISION OF ST. THOMAS AND ST. JOHN 
KEITH NICHOLSEN, 
                                    Plaintiff, 
                                    v. 
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA and 
SHAMALI DENNERY, 
                                    Defendants. 
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Case No. 3:20-cv-0023 
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COMPLAINT FOR DAMAGES  
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)            JURY TRIAL DEMANDED 
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SHAMALI DENNERY, 
                                    Third-Party Plaintiff, 
                                    v. 
BERNARD WESSELHOFT d/b/a Slim Man’s 
Parking Lot, 
                                    Third-Party Defendant. 
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Case No. 3:20-cv-0023 
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COMPLAINT FOR DAMAGES 
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)            JURY TRIAL DEMANDED 
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SHAMALI DENNERY, 
                                    Cross Claimant, 
                                    v. 
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, 
                                    Cross Defendant. 
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)            Case No. 3:20-cv-0023 
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COMPLAINT FOR CONTRIBUTION 
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SHAMALI DENNERY, 
                                    Counter Claimant, 
                                    v. 
KEITH NICHOLSEN, 
                                    Counter Defendant. 
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)            Case No. 3:20-cv-0023 
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)            COMPLAINT FOR DAMAGES  
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JURY TRIAL DEMANDED                  
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Nicholsen v. United States et al. 
Case No. 3:20-cv-0023 
Order 
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ORDER 
 
BEFORE THE COURT is the Plaintiff Keith Nicholsen’s (“Nicholsen”) Motion to 
Continue Trial Date, currently scheduled for February 22, 2022. (ECF No. 97.) For the 
reasons stated herein, the Court will grant the motion to continue.  
 
On January 28, 2022, Nicholsen filed a motion to continue trial, ECF No. 97. In the 
motion, counsel for Nicholsen asserts that he is unable to travel by airplane to the Virgin 
Islands for trial for medical reasons. He requests to continue the jury trial “until at least 
August 2022, at which time travel should be safe for high risk individuals.”  Id. at 1. Further, 
in the Thirty-Third Order Concerning Operations of the District Court of the Virgin Islands 
During the COVID-19 Outbreak, the Court ordered that all civil and criminal jury trials 
scheduled in February of 2022 be continued pending further Order of the Court to prevent 
large gatherings of people in the courtroom.1 
The premises considered, it is hereby 
ORDERED that the Plaintiff Nicholsen’s Motion to Continue Trial, ECF No. 97, is 
GRANTED; and it is further 
ORDERED that the jury selection and trial in this matter SHALL commence promptly 
at 9:00 a.m. on August 29, 2022, in St. Thomas Courtroom 1. 
 
Dated: February 8, 2022 
 
/s/ Robert A. Molloy  
 
 
 
  
 
 
 
 
ROBERT A. MOLLOY 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Chief Judge 
 
 
1 See https://www.vid.uscourts.gov/sites/vid/files/general-ordes/Order%20-%20Thirty-
Third%20Operational%20Order%20Concerning%20COVID-19%20Outbreak.pdf. 
 
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