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Nature of Suit Code: 893
Nature of Suit: Environmental Matters
Cause of Action: 42:4321 Review of Agency Action-Environment

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STIPULATION AND [PROPOSED] ORDER FOR RETURN OF PRELIMINARY INJUNCTION BOND

Case No. 10-CV-4360-WHA

STUART G. GROSS

(CBN 251019; sgross@grosskleinlaw.com)

GROSS & KLEIN LLP

The Embarcadero

Pier 9, Suite 100

San Francisco, CA 94111

Telephone: 415-671-4628

Facsimile: 415-480-6688

SHARON E. DUGGAN 

(CBN 105108; foxsduggan@aol.com)

ATTORNEY AT LAW

336 Adeline St

Oakland, CA 94607

Telephone: 510-271-0825

Facsimile: 510-271-0829

JOSEPH W. COTCHETT 

(CBN 36324; jcotchett@cpmlegal.com)

PHILIP L. GREGORY 

(CBN 95217; pgregory@cpmlegal.com)

PAUL N. MCCLOSKEY 

(CBN 24541; pmccloskey@cpmlegal.com)

COTCHETT, PITRE & McCARTHY

840 Malcolm Road, Suite 200

Burlingame, CA 94010 

Telephone: 650-697-6000

Facsimile: 650-697-0577

KEVIN P. BUNDY 

(CBN 231686; 

kbundy@biologicaldiversity.org)

CENTER FOR BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY

1212 Broadway, Suite 800

Oakland, CA 94612

Telephone: 510-844-7100 x313

Facsimile: 510-844-7150

Counsel for Plaintiffs

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

SAN FRANCISCO DIVISION

BESS BAIR; et al.,

 Plaintiffs, 

v. 

 

STATE OF CALIFORNIA 

DEPARTMENT OF 

TRANSPORTATION; et al.,

 Defendants

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Case No. 10-CV-04360 (WHA)

STIPULATION AND [PROPOSED] 

ORDER FOR RETURN OF 

PRELIMINARY INJUNCTION BOND

[N.D. Cal. Civ. L.R. 7-11, 7-12]

Courtroom: 8 (19th Floor)

Judge: Hon. William H. Alsup

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STIPULATION AND [PROPOSED] ORDER FOR RETURN OF PRELIMINARY INJUNCTION BOND

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THE PARTIES, Plaintiffs Bess Bair, et al. (“Plaintiffs”), and Defendants State of 

California Department of Transportation, et al. (“Defendants” or “Caltrans”), by and through 

their respective counsel, hereby stipulate as follows:

WHEREAS, on June 17, 2010, Plaintiffs filed a state court action challenging 

Defendants' approval of the Richardson Grove Operational Improvement Project (“Project”) 

pursuant to state environmental laws in the San Francisco Superior Court, Lotus et at. v. State of 

California Department of Transportation, et al., which was subsequently transferred to the 

Humboldt County Superior Court and assigned Case No CV110002 (the “Lotus” Action);

WHEREAS, on September 27, 2010, Plaintiffs filed this federal action challenging 

Defendants’ approval of the Project pursuant to federal environmental and other laws in the 

Northern District of California, Bair, et al. v. State of California Department of Transportation, 

et al., Case No. CV 10-4360 WHA (“Bair I”);

WHEREAS, on July 6, 2011, this Court in Bair I issued its Order granting Plaintiffs’ 

Motion for Preliminary Injunction (Dkt. 84) and directing Plaintiffs to post a bond in the 

amount of $10,000 within 14 calendar days of the Order;

WHEREAS, on July 15, 2011, counsel for Plaintiffs posted a bond in the amount of 

$10,000 (Dkt. 86, 86-1);

WHEREAS, on April 4, 2012, this Court in Bair I issued its Order on Cross-Motions for 

Summary Judgment, Motion to Strike, and Motion for Sanctions (Dkt. 146), granting Plaintiffs’ 

Cross-Motion for Summary Judgment in part and denying it in part without prejudice, and 

administratively closed the case;

WHEREAS, there currently is no challenge to the Project pending before this Court; and

WHEREAS, Plaintiffs have been advised by the Clerk of this Court that an Order from 

this Court is necessary before the bond posted as security for the preliminary injunction issued 

in Bair I on July 6, 2011, can be released;

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NOW THEREFORE THE PARTIES AGREE, SUBJECT TO THE COURT’S 

APPROVAL, AS FOLLOWS:

1. There is no longer any need for Plaintiffs to maintain a bond with this Court as 

security for the preliminary injunction issued on July 6, 2011.

2. The Clerk shall release the bond posted by Plaintiffs, plus any accrued interest, 

forthwith upon receipt of this Order.

COTCHETT, PITRE & MCCARTHY, LLP

GROSS & KELIN LLP

SHARON E. DUGGAN, ATTORNEY AT LAW

CENTER FOR BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY

Dated: April __, 2016 By: /s/ 

PHILIP L. GREGORY

STUART G. GROSS

SHARON E. DUGGAN

KEVIN P. BUNDY

Attorneys for Plaintiffs BESS BAIR, et al.

Dated: April __, 2016 CALIFORNIA DEPARTMENT OF 

TRANSPORTATION

By: /s/ Stacy J. Lau

LUCILLE Y. BACA

JANET WONG

STACY J. LAU

Attorneys for Defendants CALIFORNIA 

DEPT. OF TRANSPORTATION, et al.

ORDER

PURSUANT TO STIPULATION, IT IS SO ORDERED.

Dated: 

HON. WILLIAM H. ALSUP

UNITED STATES DISTRICT JUDGE

April 6, 2016.

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