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Nature of Suit Code: 530
Nature of Suit: Prisoner Petitions - Habeas Corpus
Cause of Action: 28:2254 Petition for Writ of Habeas Corpus (State)

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Respondent’s Case Management Statement (16-cv-00282-VC)

KAMALA D. HARRIS

Attorney General of California

PEGGY S. RUFFRA

Supervising Deputy Attorney General

State Bar No. 117315

455 Golden Gate Avenue, Suite 11000

San Francisco, CA 94102-7004

Telephone: (415) 703-1362

Fax: (415) 703-1234

E-mail: Peggy.Ruffra@doj.ca.gov

Attorneys for Respondent

IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

SAN FRANCISCO DIVISION

BRIAN FIORE,

Petitioner,

v.

DWIGHT NEVEN, Warden,

Respondent.

16-cv-00282-VC

RESPONDENT’S CASE MANAGEMENT 

STATEMENT

Pursuant to Civil L.R. 16-9, respondent submits this Case Management Statement.1 We 

respectfully ask this Court to issue an order with the following directives: (1) grant petitioner’s 

request to hold the federal habeas petition in abeyance pending exhaustion in state court; (2) order 

petitioner to notify the Court within 30 days after exhaustion is complete; and (3) order 

respondent to file a response within 60 days after that notification. 

In addition, because there is no dispute about the appropriate next steps, the parties are in 

agreement that no appearance at a Case Management Conference on July 26, 2016, is necessary. 

 1 Petitioner filed a Case Management Statement on July 15, 2016, before the case was 

assigned to a Deputy Attorney General, as the deputy who had handled this case in state court has 

retired. The undersigned Supervising Deputy Attorney General has now been assigned to 

represent respondent in this case.

AND ORDER

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Respondent’s Case Management Statement (16-cv-00282-VC)

On January 18, 2016, petitioner filed a timely federal habeas petition and an application to 

hold the petition in abeyance pending exhaustion of two issues in state court. Docs. 1, 2. 

Petitioner has already commenced the exhaustion process by filing a habeas petition in superior 

court on January 15, 2016. Doc. 2, Exh. A. Because the superior court petition tolls the statute, 

28 U.S.C. § 2244(d)(2), respondent does not oppose petitioner’s application to hold the mixed

petition in abeyance pending exhaustion in state court. 

Once the exhaustion process is completed, petitioner should be required to notify the Court 

within 30 days of the filing of the final state court order disposing of his claims. Respondent 

should then be required to file a responsive pleading, in the form of either a motion to dismiss or 

an answer on the merits, within 60 days of the notification. Respondent believes this will provide 

the most expeditious way to provide the Court with briefing in this case.

Dated: July 19, 2016 Respectfully submitted,

KAMALA D. HARRIS

Attorney General of California

/s/PEGGY S. RUFFRA

PEGGY S. RUFFRA

Supervising Deputy Attorney General

Attorneys for Respondent

SF2016400725

20876707.doc

**If the state court petition is not resolved within 6 months the parties must file a joint 

status report. The status report is due no later than January 27, 2017. The Court otherwise 

adopts the proposed schedule and vacates the case management conference scheduled for 

July 26, 2016. 

Date: July 26, 2016

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORN

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IT IS SO ORDERED

Judge Vince Chhabria

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