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Nature of Suit Code: 791
Nature of Suit: Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA)
Cause of Action: 29:1001 E.R.I.S.A.: Employee Retirement

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Stipulation Requesting Extension of Time to File Responsive 

Pleadings and Joint Case Management Statement, and Seeking Postponement of Case Management Conference

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GARY M. BUFF, Acting Regional Solicitor 

BARBARA A. MATTHEWS, Counsel for ERISA 

California State Bar No. 195084 

JAN M. COPLICK, Senior Trial Attorney 

California State Bar Number 124053 

E-mail: sol-sf@dol.gov 

United States Department of Labor 

Office of the Solicitor 

71 Stevenson Street, Suite 1110 

San Francisco, California 94105 

Telephone: (415) 975-4498 

Facsimile: (415) 975-4495 

Attorneys for Elaine L. Chao, Secretary 

United States Department of Labor, Plaintiff 

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE 

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 

ELAINE L. CHAO, Secretary of the United 

States Department of Labor, 

 Plaintiff, 

 vs. 

GKO & ASSOCIATES, INC., a California 

corporation; GKO Consulting Engineers, Inc. a 

California corporation; JAMES WINZLER, an 

individual; GREGG OKAMITSU, an 

individual; YAN KAM-WING, an individual; 

and GKO & ASSOCIATES 401(k) SAVINGS 

AND PROFIT SHARING PLAN, an 

employee pension benefit plan, 

 Defendants. 

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Case No.: Docket No.C-05-02202 JSW 

STIPULATION REQUESTING COURT TO 

EXTEND TIME FOR FILING OF 

DEFENDANT OKAMITSU AND YAN’S

RESPONSIVE PLEADINGS, PARTIES’ 

INITIAL DISCLOSURES, RULE 26(f) 

JOINT REPORT, AND TO POSTPONE 

DATE FOR CASE MANAGEMENT 

CONFERENCE TO PERMIT PARTIES TO 

CONTINUE SETTLEMENT 

NEGOTIATIONS and 

PROPOSED ORDER

Pursuant to Rules 7-1.a.5, 7-12 and 16-1 of the Local Rules of Court, it is HEREBY 

STIPULATED between Plaintiff Elaine L. Chao, Secretary of Labor, United States Department 

of Labor (“Secretary”) and Defendants GREGG OKAMITSU (“Okamitsu”) and YAN KAMWING (“Yan”), all three hereinafter referred to collectively as the “Parties”, as follows: 

1. The Secretary and Defendants Okamitsu and Yan have been engaged in 

meaningful settlement discussions and, in order to allow these settlement discussions to 

proceed constructively the Parties hereby file this Stipulation requesting an extension of 

the applicable deadlines for filing conference statements, completing initial disclosures 

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and Rule 26(f) reports, and holding the case management conference. Any such 

extensions and continuances granted by the Court will be applicable only to the specific 

Parties entering into this Stipulation.

2. The Secretary and Defendants Okamitsu and Yan stipulate to an extension of the 

due date for the said Defendants’ responsive pleadings, originally due on October 24, 

2005, to November 15, 2005; 

3. The Parties hereby stipulate to a continuance of the date for the Case Management 

Conference from Friday, October 7, 2005, for an additional 60 days, to Friday, December 

9, 2005, to allow the Parties to continue settlement negotiations. 

4. The Parties hereby stipulate that the dates for their conference and initial 

disclosures under Rule 26(f) and their filing deadlines for the joint Case Management 

Statement similarly be extended for 60 days, the latter from the originally scheduled date 

of October 1, 2005 to December 1, 2005. 

5. Those defendants who are not parties to this Stipulation, namely defendants GKO 

& ASSOCIATES, INC., GKO Consulting Engineers, Inc., JAMES WINZLER, and GKO 

& ASSOCIATES 401(k) SAVINGS AND PROFIT SHARING PLAN, have all duly 

executed and returned waivers of service herein, requiring them to file an answer or 

motion under Rule 12 on or before August 26, 2005, however, as of this writing, the 

Secretary has not been served with any such answers or motions from these defendants. 

FOR DEFENDANTS: 

Dated: September ____, 2005 ___________________________________ 

DOUGLAS MURKEN, Counsel for defendants 

GREGG OKAMITSU and YAN KAM-WING 

FOR PLAINTIFFS:

Dated: September ____, 2005 __________________________________ 

 JAN M. COPLICK, Counsel for plaintiff ELAINE 

L. CHAO, Secretary of Labor, U.S. Department of 

Labor

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Responsive pleadings by defendants GREGG OKAMITSU and YAN KAM-WING must 

be filed by November 15, 2005. The Secretary, defendants OKAMITSU and YAN shall file their 

Rule 26(f) Joint Conference Statement and Case Management Statement by December 1, 2005. 

The Case Scheduling Conference, originally scheduled for Friday, October 7, 2005, shall be held 

on Friday, December 9, 2005. 

PURSUANT TO STIPULATION, IT IS SO ORDERED 

Dated: September ____, 2005 

 ________________________________________ 

HONORABLE JEFFREY S. WHITE 

UNITED STATES DISTRICT JUDGE 

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