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

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GREGORY W. MORENO, ESQ., SBN 57844

ARNOLDO CASILLAS, ESQ. SBN 158519

MORENO, BECERRA & CASILLAS

3500 W. Beverly Boulevard

Montebello, CA 90640-1541

(323) 725-0917

(323) 725-0350

Attorneys for Plaintiff, 

ROCIO ADAME ALFARO, ET AL.

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 

EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

Rocio Adame Alfaro, individually,

et al.,

Plaintiffs

v.

National Railroad Passenger

Corporation (“Amtrak”), a U.S.

Statutory Corporation; Walter

Ward; W.M. Dike; Burlington

Northern Santa Fe Corporation;

County of Kern; City of Shafter;

City of Bakersfield and DOES 1

Through 100, Inclusive,

Defendants.

 

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CASE NO: CV F 02-6527 REC

LJO

STIPULATION OF THE PARTIES

RE CONTINUANCE OF PRETRIAL

CONFERENCE AND TRIAL DATE

COME NOW THE PARTIES in the above entitled matter and hereby

submit the following:

1. That the Pre-trial Conference in the above-entitled

matter is set for January 24, 2006, at 8:15 a.m. and

that the Trial date is currently set for March 21,

2006, at 10:00 a.m.;

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2. That Plaintiffs’ trial counsel Gregory Moreno has

suffered some health issues over the past few months

which caused him to have to take time off from his law

practice. Said medical leave caused delay in the

preparation for trial in several matters scheduled to

begin trial prior to this matter as well as trial

preparation in this case.

3. That, further, Plaintiffs’ trial counsel Gregory Moreno

is scheduled to begin a complex medical malpractice

trial on February 6, 2006, in the Redondo Beach

Superior Court in the matter of Nelly Molina v. County

of Los Angeles, et al., Case number YC043883. Counsel

anticipates this trial will last approximately two

months. As such, it will not conclude prior the

currently scheduled trial date in this matter of March

21, 2006. Further, trial counsel will be unable to

participate in the preparation for this trial.

6. That this proposed continuance is unopposed by any

counsel, however, counsel for Defendants National

Railroad Passenger Corporation (Amtrak) and Burlington

Northern Santa Fe Corporation reserves the right to

request a stay of proceedings pending Plaintiffs’

anticipated appeal of the Court’s ruling regarding the

Defendant County of Kern’s Motion for Summary Judgment.

7. That given the above request by counsel for the

“Railroad Defendants” counsel for Plaintiffs, Gregory

Moreno respectfully requests the court stay the

proceedings in this matter until such time as he is

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able to file and have heard a Motion for Certification

of the Judgment so as to be able to proceed with an

appeal.

6. That based on the foregoing, and based on the request

for the stay of proceedings, the parties propose the

Pre-Trial Conference be continued to June 27, 2006, at

8:15 a.m. and the Trial date be continued to August 8,

2006, at 10:00 a.m. in Courtroom 1 of the United States

Federal Court in Fresno, California.

7. Said continuance will not reopen factual discovery,

unless by way of separate application to the Court, but

will allow discovery that was properly served and/or

noticed within the discovery cut-off period and expert

discovery as necessary.

It is so stipulated.

Dated: January 12, 2006 MORENO, BECERRA & CASILLAS

By: /S/GREGORY W. MORENO 

GREGORY W. MORENO

Attorneys for Plaintiffs

Dated: January 12, 2006 LAW OFFICES OF LUIS A. CARRILLO

By: /S/ LUIS CARRILLO 

LUIS A. CARRILLO

Attorneys for Plaintiffs

Dated: January 12, 2006 LOMBARDI, LOPER & CONANT, LLP

By: /S/ 

B. CLYDE HUTCHINSON

ERIN E. FRY

Attorneys for Defendants

NATIONAL RAILROAD PASSENGER CORPORATION,

THE BURLINGTON NORTHERN and SANTA FE

RAILWAY COMPANY, WALTER WARD and W.M.

DIKE

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Dated: January 13, 2006 LAW OFFICES OF BRIAN OSBORNE

By: /S/ 

BRIAN OSBORNE

Attorneys for Plaintiffs

MATEO ROMERO AND ROSA ROMERO

Dated: January 13, 2006 LAW OFFICES OF DAVID LYNN

By: /S/ 

DAVID LYNN

Attorneys for Plaintiffs

Dated: January 13, 2006 McNULTY LAW FIRM

By: /S/ 

PETER J. McNULTY

DANIEL GLAZER

Attorneys for Plaintiffs

ORDER

GOOD CAUSE APPEARING and the parties having stipulated, it

is hereby ordered that the Pre-Trial Conference is continued to

from January 24, 2006 to June 27, 2006, at 8:15 a.m., and the

Trial is continued from March 21, 2006, to August 8, 2006, at

10:00 a.m.

IT IS SO ORDERED.

Dated: January 17, 2006 /s/ Lawrence J. O'Neill 

66h44d UNITED STATES MAGISTRATE JUDGE

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