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Nature of Suit Code: 440
Nature of Suit: Other Civil Rights
Cause of Action: 05:7703 Discrimination - Review of Agency Act

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STIPULATION AND PROPOSED ORDER 1 

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BENJAMIN B. WAGNER 

United States Attorney 

BENJAMIN E. HALL 

Assistant United States Attorney 

2500 Tulare Street, Suite 4401 

Fresno, CA 93721 

Telephone: (559) 497-4000 

Facsimile: (559) 497-4099 

Attorneys for Defendants 

IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 

EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 

David Shayne Heine, California Veal Tech, Inc. 

a California corporation, 

Plaintiffs, 

v. 

Tim Vilsack in His Official Capacity as United 

States Secretary of Agriculture, United States 

Department of Agriculture, United States 

Department of Agriculture Food Safety and 

Inspections Service, Yudhbir Sharma, DVM, 

USDA Employee Known Only as “Dr. Pannu,” 

USDA Employee Known only as “Ken,”USDA 

Employee Known only as “Dr. Redding,” 

USDA Employee Known Only as “Dr. 

Henley,” Dr. Amy Lieder, Penny Patrali and 

DOES 1-100 inclusive, 

Defendants. 

Case No. 1:12-CV-01992-AWI-SMS 

STIPULATION AND ORDER 

REGARDING PLEADING 

SCHEDULE AND CONTINUANCE 

OF INITIAL SCHEDULING 

CONFERENCE 

 Plaintiffs, David Shayne Heine and California Veal Tech, Inc. (“Plaintiffs”), and Defendants 

United States Department of Agriculture (“USDA”) and Dr. Inderjeet Pannu, hereby stipulate and 

agree as follows: 

1. This matter is before the Court on Plaintiffs’ First Amended Complaint, filed August 

15, 2013 (Doc. 23). By Order of the Court on the parties’ prior stipulation (Doc. 22), Defendants’ 

response to the First Amended Complaint is due August 30, 2013. The Initial Scheduling 

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STIPULATION AND PROPOSED ORDER 2 

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Conference is set for September 10, 2013 (Doc. 19). 

2. Since the filing of the First Amended Complaint, the parties have been engaged in 

discussions regarding the legal viability of numerous claims asserted by Plaintiffs in the First 

Amended Complaint. Plaintiffs have agreed to consider further amending the complaint in order to 

resolve legal issues that would otherwise be the subject of motion practice before the Court. The 

parties agree that the interests of justice and judicial economy would be best served by an order 

further amending the pleading schedule as follows: (1) Plaintiffs’ Second Amended Complaint, if 

any, shall be filed on or before September 13, 2013; and (2) the response of defendants Dr. Inderjeet 

Pannu and USDA to the First Amended Complaint or Second Amended Complaint, as applicable, 

shall be filed on or before October 4, 2013. The parties will request no further extension of the 

pleading schedule. 

3. The parties request that the Initial Scheduling Conference set for September 10, 2013, 

be continued to mid-October 2013 or later, since further amendment of the pleadings is likely to bear 

upon the claims remaining to be litigated and therefore the appropriate schedule for this case. 

Respectfully submitted, 

Dated: August 28, 2013 BENJAMIN B. WAGNER 

United States Attorney 

 /s/ Benjamin E. Hall 

BENJAMIN E. HALL 

Assistant U.S. Attorney 

Attorney for Defendants 

Dated: August 28, 2013 THE ZUMWALT LAW FIRM, APC. 

[Authorized August 28, 2013] 

 /s/ Graham S. Lopez 

GRAHAM S. LOPEZ 

Attorneys for Plaintiffs 

ORDER 

 Good cause appearing, IT IS HEREBY ORDERED as follows: 

1. Plaintiffs’ Second Amended Complaint, if any, shall be filed on or before September 

13, 2013. 

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2. The response of defendants Dr. Inderjeet Pannu and USDA to the First Amended 

Complaint or Second Amended Complaint, as applicable, shall be filed on or before October 4, 

2013. 

3. The Initial Scheduling Conference is continued to October 30, 2013, at 10:30 a.m. in 

Courtroom 1 before Magistrate Judge Sandra M. Snyder. The parties may appear telephonically 

with the parties to arrange for a one-line conference call to chambers at (559) 499-5690. The parties 

are also reminded to submit a joint scheduling report one week prior to the hearing. 

IT IS SO ORDERED. 

Dated: August 30, 2013 /s/ SANDRA M. SNYDER 

 HON. SANDRA M. SNYDER 

 United States Magistrate Judge 

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