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Nature of Suit Code: 360
Nature of Suit: Other Personal Injury
Cause of Action: 28:1332 Diversity-Personal Injury

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STIPULATION OF PARTIES TO REMAND TO STATE COURT; DEC OF ERIC J. TROUTMAN IN SUPPORT THEREOF; ORDER

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ke Eric J. Troutman, Esq.; SBN 229263

023994/ BORTON, PETRINI & CONRON, LLP

059635 1600 Truxtun Avenue

Post Office Box 2026

Bakersfield, CA 93303

Telephone (661) 322-3051

Attorneys for Defendant, J.C.

Penney Corporation, Inc.

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

Olivia Ferrel,

Plaintiff,

v.

J.C. Penney Corporation; Does 1

to 100,

Defendants.

Case No. 1:05-CV-00942-AWISMS

STIPULATION OF PARTIES TO

REMAND TO STATE COURT;

DECLARATION OF ERIC J.

TROUTMAN IN SUPPORT THEREOF;

ORDER

TRIAL: None Assigned

COMES NOW the parties to the above-entitled action and

recite as follows:

1. WHEREAS, this matter was filed in the Kern County

Superior Court as Case no. S-1500-CV-255655-AEW; and

2. WHEREAS, the plaintiff filed and served in support

of such civil action a Statement of Damages seeking recovery of

$450,000; and

3. WHEREAS, the defendant J.C. Penney Corporation, Inc.

upon objectively reasonable basis, caused the matter to be removed

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to Federal Court as the above-captioned matter on or about July 20,

2005; and

4. WHEREAS, the plaintiff has subsequently waived,

discharged and forever released defendant J.C. Penney

Corporation, Inc. from any and all liability for any sum above

$75,000, exclusive of costs and interest; and

5. WHEREAS, the parties to the above-entitled action

now wish for this matter to proceed in state court for the ease and

economy of the civil litigants and in recognition of the

insufficient amount in controversy; 

THEREFORE the parties do hereby stipulate and request

that this Honorable Court enter an order remanding the matter to

proceed in state court pursuant to 28 U.S.C.S. section 1447.

DATED: August 4, 2005

BORTON, PETRINI & CONRON, LLP

By /S/ Eric J. Troutman

Eric J. Troutman, Attorneys for

Defendant, J. C. Penney 

Corporation, Inc.

By /s/ Charles R. Brehmer 

 (as authorized on 8/5/05 

Charles R. Brehmer, Attorneys for

Plaintiff, Olivia Ferrel

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DECLARATION

I, Eric J. Troutman, declare as follows:

1. I am an attorney duly licensed to practice law in

the State of California and am properly admitted to practice before

the United States District Court for the Eastern District of

California. I make the following declaration in support of the

parties’ Stipulation and request that this matter be remanded to

proceed in state court. The following facts are within my own

personal knowledge, and if called as a witness to testify, I could,

and would, testify competently thereto. 

2. On July 20, 2005, my office caused to be filed a

Notice of Removal initiating the above-captioned U.S. District

Court case. As set forth in such Notice of Removal, a copy of

which is attached hereto as Exhibit "A" for reference, the basis

for the allegation of jurisdiction was a Statement of Damages

prepared and served by the plaintiff in this matter. 

3. Upon receiving word that the matter had been removed

to Federal Court, counsel for Olivia Ferrel submitted a

correspondence to my office suggesting that the amount in

controversy did not meet the requirements for diversity

jurisdiction. 

4. This office offered to stipulate that the matter be

remanded to state court in the event that plaintiff agreed to waive

any, and all, liability above and beyond $75,000, exclusive of

costs and interest. The plaintiff was willing to execute such

waiver and has, in fact, released and discharged defendant J.C.

Penney Corporation, Inc. from any and all liability above $75,000,

exclusive of costs and interest.

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5. Accordingly, J.C. Penney Corporation, Inc. is no

longer entitled, and does not wish, to proceed in the United States

District Court and does grant its consent to a remand of the action

to state court for want of diversity jurisdiction.

I declare under penalty of perjury, under the laws of the

State of California and the United States, that the above stated

facts are true and correct.

Executed this 4th day of August 2005, in Bakersfield,

California.

/s/ Eric J. Troutman 

Eric J. Troutman, Declarant

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ORDER

As it appears that the amount in controversy in this

matter no longer meets the requirements for original diversity

jurisdiction under 28 U.S.C. 1332, and as the parties have

stipulated to the requested relief;

THEREFOR, it is hereby ordered that this matter is

remanded to proceed in state court in all respects.

IT IS SO ORDERED.

Dated: August 25, 2005 /s/ Sandra M. Snyder 

icido3 UNITED STATES MAGISTRATE JUDGE

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