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Nature of Suit Code: 440
Nature of Suit: Other Civil Rights
Cause of Action: 28:1983 Civil Rights

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STIPULATION AND ORDER

CASE NO.: 1:12-CV-00428-LJO-SKO

PAUL ALEXANDER (SBN 49997)

ARNOLD & PORTER LLP

1801 Page Mill Road, Suite 110

Palo Alto, CA 94304

Telephone: (650) 798-2921

E-Mail: Paul.Alexander@aporter.com

AMY L. BOMSE (SBN 218669)

ARNOLD & PORTER LLP

Three Embarcadero Center, 7th Floor

San Francisco, CA 94111

Telephone: (415) 471-3100

E-Mail: Amy.Bomse@aporter.com

ANDREW PATTERSON (SBN 267989) 

ARNOLD & PORTER LLP

777 South Figueroa Street, Forty-Fourth Floor

Los Angeles, CA 90017-5844 

Telephone: (213) 243-4118

E-Mail: Andrew.Patterson@aporter.com

CHRIS A. SCHNEIDER, SR. (SBN 123627)

SUZANNE SWENK (SBN 179760)

CHRISTINA SKAF HATHAWAY (SBN 258690)

NAUREEN NALIA (SBN 276426)

CENTRAL CALIFORNIA LEGAL SERVICES, INC.

2115 Kern Street, Suite 1

Fresno, CA 93721

Telephone: (559) 570-1214

E-Mail: chris@centralcallegal.org

E-Mail: suzanne@centralcallegal.org

E-Mail: chathaway@centralcallegal.org

E-Mail: nnalia@centralcallegal.org

Attorneys for Plaintiffs

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

FRESNO DIVISION

LUIS SANCHEZ, ANGELITA SOTO, 

GLORIA WILLIAMS, THERESA CALMER, 

JULIAN FERNANDEZ, MELISSA OHLER, 

and JOSHUA DEEN,

Plaintiffs,

vs. 

CITY OF FRESNO, ASHLEY SWEARENGIN, 

MARK SCOTT, BRUCE RUDD, GREG 

BARFIELD, JERRY DYER, PHILLIP 

WEATHERS, MALCOLM DOUGHERTY, 

ANDREW HALL, GREGORY GARNER, 

RICHARD TUCKER, GLEN SCHAFER, 

Case No.: 1:12-cv-00428-LJO-SKO

And Related Consolidated Cases

STIPULATION AND ORDER 

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CASE NO.: 1:12-CV-00428-LJO-SKO

MARK VAN WYHE, JEFFREY LA BLUE, 

RITCHIE O’DELL, MARIO TOSCANO, 

TIMOTHY STEWART, JASON WATKINS, 

DAVID MIRAMONTES, BRYAN ANALLA, 

XAO HERR, DAVID GRAZIER, VUE YANG, 

JOHN SKAGGS, JAMES HILDEBRAND, 

KEITH DUTSON, RAUL BOMBARDLY, 

EDUARDO CASTANO, LUIS 

CASTELLANOS, JIM COPLAND, SU FANG, 

ERNIE FLORES, ROBERT GRAHAM, 

FRANCISCO GUEVARA, KEVIN HANSEN, 

TIM HAUSCHEL, LEO HEREDIA, MARTY 

HERRERA, PETER HOWE, ROBIN 

KELDSEN, JOHANAN KUDER,, SCOTT 

MARTIN, RICK MENDIZABAL, LEONARD 

REYES, STEVEN REYES, and DOES 1-100, 

inclusive,

Defendants. 

Plaintiffs and Defendants City of Fresno, Swearengin, Scott, Rudd, Barfield, Dyer and 

Weathers, by and through their respective counsel of record, hereby stipulate as follows:

1. The complaints previously filed against defendants by Angelita Soto, Gloria 

Williams, Julian Fernandez, Theresa Calmer, Melissa Ohler and Joshua Deen shall 

proceed pursuant to the allegations in this Second Amended Complaint, which shall 

be deemed to have been filed as of the date of their previously filed complaints, and, 

upon approval of this proposed stipulation by the Court, the previously filed 

complaints of each of these plaintiffs shall be voluntarily dismissed. The allegations 

that appear in Paragraphs 5 to 12 and 27 to 51 of the Second Amended Complaint, 

shall not be incorporated into the complaints by the other Plaintiffs.

2. Plaintiffs do not assert a claim for damages under their California Constitutional 

Claims, in accordance with this Court’s December 26, 2012 Order.

3. In their Second Amended Complaint, plaintiffs do not assert a Fifth Amendment Due 

Process claim or a Fifth Amendment Takings claim.

4. Based upon this Stipulation, Defendants’ currently filed Motion to Dismiss Second 

Amended Complaint shall be deemed withdrawn. Defendants may have 20 days 

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following the Court’s approval of this stipulation and issuance of an Order thereon in 

which to file their Answer to the Second Amended Complaint. 

5. The parties request a scheduling conference to address procedural issues involving 

the naming of 37 additional Defendants in the Second Amended Complaint.

Dated: March 4, 2013 ARNOLD & PORTER LLP

By: /s/ Paul Alexander 

Attorneys for Plaintiffs

BETTS, RUBIN & MCGUINNESS

By: /s/ James B. Betts 

Attorneys for Defendants City of Fresno

GEORGESON, BELARDINELLI & NOYES

By /s/ C. Russell Georgeson

Attorneys for Defendants Ashley Swearengin, Mark Scott, 

Bruce Rudd, Greg Barfield, Jerry Dyer and Phillip Weathers

ORDER

It is so ordered.

Dated: March 5, 2013 /s/ Lawrence J. O’Neill

UNITED STATES DISTRICT JUDGE

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