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Nature of Suit Code: 893
Nature of Suit: Environmental Matters
Cause of Action: 28:1331 Fed. Question

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STIPULATION RE MODIFICATION TO DISCOVERY SCHEDULE IN SCHEDULING ORDER;

ORDER THEREON

Erich P. Wise/State Bar No. 63219

Nicholas S. Politis/State Bar No. 92978

Aleksandrs E. Drumalds/State Bar No. 237101 

FLYNN, DELICH & WISE LLP

One World Trade Center, Suite 1800

Long Beach, California 90831-1800

Telephone: (562) 435-2626

Facsimile: (562) 437-7555

James B. Nebel/State Bar No. 69626

Conte C. Cicala/State Bar No. 173554

FLYNN, DELICH & WISE LLP

One California Street, Suite 350

San Francisco, California

Telephone: (415) 693-5566

Facsimile: (415) 693-0410

Attorneys for Plaintiff 

PACIFIC MERCHANT SHIPPING ASSOCIATION, 

a California Mutual Benefit Corporation

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA – SACRAMENTO

PACIFIC MERCHANT SHIPPING

ASSOCIATION, a California Mutual

Benefit Corporation,

 Plaintiff,

 vs.

CATHERINE E.WITHERSPOON, in

her official capacity as Executive

Officer of the California Air

Resources Board, 

 Defendant,

NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE

COUNCIL, INC., COALITION FOR

CLEAN AIR, INC., SOUTH COAST

AIR QUALITY MANAGEMENT

DISTRICT, and CITY OF LONG

BEACH, 

 Defendant-Intervenors

CASE NO.: 2:06-CV-02791-WBS-KJM

STIPULATION RE 

MODIFICATION TO DISCOVERY

SCHEDULE IN SCHEDULING

ORDER; ORDER THEREON

Pretrial Conference: August 11, 2008

Trial Date: October 7, 2008

Judge: Hon. William B. Shubb

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STIPULATION RE MODIFICATION TO DISCOVERY SCHEDULE IN SCHEDULING ORDER;

ORDER THEREON

TO THE COURT AND ALL COUNSEL OF RECORD:

IT IS HEREBY STIPULATED by and between the parties in the captioned

matter, through their counsel of record, as follows: 

The parties submit this proposed Modification to the Court’s Status (Pre-trial

Scheduling) Order, dated April 26, 2007, pursuant to Paragraph IX “Modifications to

Scheduling Order.” This matter had been set for a May 7, 2007, scheduling

conference by the Court, but by its Order of April 26, 2007, the Court entered its

Status (Pretrial Scheduling) Order and vacated the May 7, 2007, conference. On April

16, 2007, counsel for all the parties met to discuss scheduling of discovery and other

dates in the case. Subsequent to that meeting, counsel for plaintiff prepared and

circulated a proposed Joint Status Report to be presented to the Court as required by

previous Order. Due to scheduling conflicts among counsel, including a jury trial, the

parties were unable to provide the Court a revised report by April 23, 2007. The

Court’s Status (Pretrial Scheduling) Order was therefore entered without the benefit

of such revised Joint Report. Instead, it appears the order was based on a report filed

by Plaintiff and Defendant California Air Resources Board with the Court before

intervention of the NRDC, South Coast AQMD and City of Long Beach was granted.

Counsel for the parties are in agreement that all discovery in this case can be

completed by March 31, 2008, as required by the Court’s Pretrial Scheduling Order,

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STIPULATION RE MODIFICATION TO DISCOVERY SCHEDULE IN SCHEDULING ORDER;

ORDER THEREON

and that the case can be prepared for pretrial and trial by the required dates of August

11, 2008, and October 7, 2007, as set forth in the Pretrial Scheduling Order. Counsel

for the parties are also of the view, however, that because of the nature of the case,

certain modifications to the Discovery provisions of the Scheduling Order will allow

the parties to complete discovery in a more orderly and complete manner than will

dates provided in the Court’s Order of April 26, 2007. 

IT IS HEREBY STIPULATED AND AGREED, therefore, that the following

modifications to Section “IV. Discovery” of the Court’s April 26, 2007, Status

(Pretrial Scheduling) Order should be made: 

1. The dates by which plaintiff shall disclose experts and produce reports in

accordance with Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 26(a)(2) shall be extended from

October 15, 2007, to December 17, 2007;

2. The date by which defendants shall disclose experts and produce reports in

accordance with Federal Civil Procedure 26(a)(2) shall be extended from October 31,

2007, to December 17, 2007;

3. With regard to expert testimony intended solely for rebuttal, the date by

which those experts shall be disclosed and reports produced in accordance with

Federal Rules of Civil Procedure 26(a)(2) shall be extended fromNovember 16, 2007,

to February 18, 2008;

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STIPULATION RE MODIFICATION TO DISCOVERY SCHEDULE IN SCHEDULING ORDER;

ORDER THEREON

4. The date for completion of all non-expert discovery, including depositions

for preservation of testimony,shall be continued from October 31, 2007, to March 31,

2008;

5. All motions to compel discovery must be noticed on the Magistrate Judge’s

calendar in accordance with the local rules of this court so that such motions may be

heard (and any resulting orders obeyed) by March 31, 2008 (continuing that date for

non-expert discovery from October 31, 2007).

IT IS FURTHER STIPULATED AND AGREED, that the number

of depositions allowed in this matter pursuant to Rule 30 of the Federal Rules of Civil

Procedure, shall be thirty for plaintiff and an aggregate thirty for defendants. With

respect to interrogatories, each party may propound 25 interrogatories to any other

party as per Rule 33 of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, but plaintiff may

propound its interrogatories on any party, not to exceed 100 in the aggregate number

served on all defendants. 

IT IS SO STIPULATED AND AGREED.

Dated: April 27, 2007 FLYNN, DELICH & WISE LLP

By: /s/ Erich P. Wise

Erich P. Wise

Attorneys for Plaintiff

PACIFIC MERCHANT SHIPPING

ASSOCIATION

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STIPULATION RE MODIFICATION TO DISCOVERY SCHEDULE IN SCHEDULING ORDER;

ORDER THEREON

Dated: April 27, 2007 Edmund G. Brown, Jr.

Attorney General of the State of

California

By: /s/ Nicholas Stern (as authorized on 4/27/07)

Nicholas Stern

Linda Berg

Deputy Attorneys General

Attorneys for Defendant

CATHERINE E. WITHERSPOON 

Dated: April 27, 2007 DISTRICT COUNSEL

SOUTH COAST AIR QUALITY

MANAGEMENT DISTRICT

By: /s/ Michael Harris, Sr. (as authorized on 4/27/07)

Kurt R. Wiese

District Counsel 

Barbara B. Baird

Principal Deputy District Counsel

Michael Harris, Sr.

Deputy District Counsel

Attorneys for Defendant-Intervenor

SOUTH COAST AIR QUALITY

MANAGEMENT DISTRICT

Dated: April 27, 2007 FOX SPILLANE SHAEFER LLP

By: /s/ Jay M. Spillane (as authorized on 4/27/07)

Jay M. Spillane

Ruth M. Moore

Attorneys for Defendant-Intervenor

CITY OF LONG BEACH

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STIPULATION RE MODIFICATION TO DISCOVERY SCHEDULE IN SCHEDULING ORDER;

ORDER THEREON

Dated: April 27, 2007 NATURAL RESOURCES

DEFENSE COUNCIL

By: /s/ Davis R. Pettit (as authorized on 4/27/07)

David R. Pettit

Melissa Lin Perrella

Attorneys for DefendantsIntervenors

NATURAL RESOURCES

DEFENSE COUNCIL and

COALITION FOR CLEAN

AIR, INC.

O R D E R

 IT IS SO ORDERED.

Date: May 3, 2007.

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