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Nature of Suit Code: 440
Nature of Suit: Other Civil Rights
Cause of Action: 42:1983 Civil Rights Act

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569572.1 STIPULATION AND [PROPOSED] ORDER FOR 

MEDIATION

BILL LANN LEE (State Bar No. 108452)

blee@lchb.com

DANIEL M. HUTCHINSON

(State Bar No. 239458)

dhutchinson@lchb.com

LIEFF, CABRASER, HEIMANN

 & BERNSTEIN, LLP

Embarcadero Center West

275 Battery Street, Suite 3000

San Francisco, CA 94111-3339

Telephone: (415) 956-1000

Facsimile: (415) 956-1008

Attorneys for Plaintiffs Sylvia Darensburg, 

Virginia Martinez, Vivian Hain, and the 

Proposed Class; and Plaintiff Communities 

for a Better Environment

[Additional Plaintiffs’ counsel listed on 

signature page]

KIMON MANOLIUS (State Bar No. 15497)

WARREN WEBSTER (State Bar No. 209540)

JULIA H. VEIT (State Bar No. 209207)

KARIN M. ARNOLD (State Bar No. 228565)

HANSON BRIDGETT MARCUS

 VLAHOS & RUDY, LLP

333 Market Street, 21st Floor

San Francisco, CA 94105-2173

Telephone: (415) 777-3200

Facsimile: (415) 541-9366

jvett@hansonbridgett.com

FRANCIS F. CHIN (State Bar No. 059231)

CYNTHIA E. SEGAL (State Bar No. 179636)

METROPOLITAN TRANSPORTATION 

COMMISSION

Joseph P. Bort Metrocenter

101 8th Street

Oakland, CA 94607-4700

Telephone: (510) 464-7700

Facsimile: (510) 464-7848

Attorneys for Defendant Metropolitan

Transportation Commission

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

SYLVIA DARENSBURG, VIRGINIA 

MARTINEZ, and VIVIAN HAIN, 

individuals on behalf of themselves and all 

others similarly situated; 

AMALGAMATED TRANSIT UNION, 

LOCAL 192; and COMMUNITIES FOR A 

BETTER ENVIRONMENT,

Plaintiffs,

v.

METROPOLITAN TRANSPORTATION 

COMMISSION,

Defendant.

Case No. C- 05-1597 EDL

STIPULATION AND [PROPOSED] 

ORDER FOR MEDIATION_______

RECITALS

WHEREAS all parties to the above-captioned case have been encouraged to enter 

into a mediation process by the Court’s ADR coordinator;

THEREFORE, the Parties stipulate and agree as follows:

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STIPULATION AND [PROPOSED] ORDER FOR 

MEDIATION

STIPULATION AND AGREEMENT

1. The parties and their counsel will meet with an independent mediator to 

conduct an exploratory mediation to investigate the feasibility of further mediation and, if so, to 

determine the best process and format for such mediation. All organizational parties shall have in 

attendance an individual (other than trial counsel) who is familiar with the litigation and with his 

or her own organization’s positions in the litigation; and

2. The mediator shall be Senior Judge Edward Leavy of the U.S. Court of Appeals 

for the 9th Circuit; and

3. The parties should endeavor to have this meeting as quickly as possible, 

recognizing of course that there are many parties and associated scheduling issues with which to 

contend; and

4. If the parties all agree that entry into a mediation process might be fruitful, then 

they may either stay with the same independent mediator, or choose another mutually agreeable 

person; and

5. All costs for the services of any independent mediator for the first meeting or 

the subsequent mediation, if any, shall be borne half by Plaintiffs and half by Defendant.

IT IS SO STIPULATED, THROUGH COUNSEL OF RECORD.

Dated: October 20, 2006 LIEFF, CABRASER, HEIMANN & BERNSTEIN, LLP

By: /s/ 

Bill Lann Lee

Bill Lann Lee

Daniel M. Hutchinson

LIEFF, CABRASER, HEIMANN & BERNSTEIN, LLP

Embarcadero Center West

275 Battery Street, Suite 3000

San Francisco, CA 94111-3339

Telephone: (415) 956-1000

Facsimile: (415) 956-1008

Attorneys for Plaintiffs Sylvia Darensburg, Virginia 

Martinez, Vivian Hain, and the Proposed Class; and 

Communities for a Better Environment

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STIPULATION AND [PROPOSED] ORDER FOR 

MEDIATION

Peter D. Nussbaum

Daniel T. Purtell

Linda Lye 

ALTSHULER, BERZON, NUSSBAUM, RUBIN & 

 DEMAIN

177 Post Street, Suite 300

San Francisco, CA 94108

Telephone: (415) 421-7151

Facsimile: (415) 362-8064

Attorneys for Plaintiff Amalgamated Transit

Union Local 192

Richard Marcantonio

Guillermo Mayer

PUBLIC ADVOCATES, INC.

131 Steuart Street, Suite 300

San Francisco, CA 94105 

Telephone: (415) 431-7430 

Facsimile: (415) 431-1048 

Attorneys for Plaintiffs Sylvia Darensburg, Virginia 

Martinez, Vivian Hain, and the Proposed Class

William B. Rostov 

Adrienne Bloch 

COMMUNITIES FOR A BETTER ENVIRONMENT

1611 Telegraph Avenue, #450

Oakland, CA 94612

Telephone: (510) 302-0430

Facsimile: (510) 302-0438

Attorneys for Plaintiff Communities for a Better 

Environment

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STIPULATION AND [PROPOSED] ORDER FOR 

MEDIATION

Dated: October 20, 2006 HANSON BRIDGETT MARCUS VLAHOS

& RUDY, LLP

By: : /s/ 

Kimon Manoulis

Kimon Manolius

Warren Webster 

Julia H. Veit 

Karin M. Arnold 

HANSON BRIDGETT MARCUS

 VLAHOS & RUDY, LLP

333 Market Street, 21st Floor

San Francisco, CA 94105-2173

Telephone: (415) 777-3200

Facsimile: (415) 541-9366

Francis F. Chin

Cynthia E. Segal 

METROPOLITAN TRANSPORTATION 

COMMISSION

Joseph P. Bort Metrocenter

101 8th Street

Oakland, CA 94607-4700

Telephone: (510) 464-7700

Facsimile: (510) 464-7848

Attorneys for Defendant Metropolitan Transportation 

Commission

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STIPULATION AND [PROPOSED] ORDER FOR 

MEDIATION

ORDER

The foregoing Stipulation is approved, and IT IS SO ORDERED.

October ___, 2006 _____________________________

Hon. Elizabeth D. Laporte

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NITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

IT IS SO ORDERED

Judge Elizabeth D. Laporte

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