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Nature of Suit Code: 440
Nature of Suit: Other Civil Rights
Cause of Action: 42:1983 Civil Rights Act

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Stipulation; Declaration, & Order to Continue Trial 

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DENNIS J. HERRERA, State Bar #139669

City Attorney 

JOANNE HOEPER, State Bar #114961

Chief Trial Deputy 

ELLEN SHAPIRO, State Bar #127847 

Deputy City Attorney 

Fox Plaza 

1390 Market Street, 6th Floor 

San Francisco, California 94102-5408 

Telephone: (415) 554-3879 

Facsimile: (415) 554-3837 

E-Mail: ellen.shapiro@sfgov.org 

Attorneys for Defendants 

CITY AND COUNTY OF SAN FRANCISCO, 

TRACY MCCRAY, FITZERALD WONG, MARIS GOLDSBOROUGH, 

CRAIG WILSON, BENNY LEW, TIM LAIRD, 

DEBORAH GOLDSTEIN, IVEY NZEREM, AND FAY ALI 

UNITED STATES DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 

SAN FRANCISCO DIVISION 

GEORGIY KULYA, et al., 

 Plaintiffs, 

 vs. 

CITY AND COUNTY OF SAN 

FRANCISCO, et al., 

 Defendants. 

Case No. C06-06539 JSW 

STIPULATION TO CONTINUE TRIAL 

AND PRE-TRIAL DATES; 

DECLARATION OF ELLEN SHAPIRO 

IN SUPPORT OF STIPULATION; 

[PROPOSED] ORDER 

The court is aware that counsel have had to ask a couple of times now for a continuance of 

cut-off dates, which the court has agreed to, and which agreement is appreciated by counsel. 

Counsel are again asking for consideration in continuing the trial date, and associated cut-off 

dates, for the reasons as follows. 

A late discovered compilation of documents (over 1000 pages) relevant to the policies, 

practice, and procedures of the City and County of San Francisco, and emergency response social 

work (three of the defendants herein are emergency response social workers), was produced to 

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plaintiffs counsel for the first time on March 14th, 2008. The existence of this compilation was 

unknown to defendants’ counsel, and came up in a conversation with the Person Most 

Knowledgeable approximately one week before the PMK’s scheduled deposition on March 14th, 

2008. The compilation had to be located, produced to defendant’s counsel, then copied and 

produced to plaintiffs’ counsel. This was an unanticipated delay, through no fault of either 

counsel, and it appears an innocent oversight on the part of the Dept. of Children’s & Family 

Services. 

In addition, plaintiff has two more depositions to complete (one of which is the PMK 

mentioned above, whose deposition was cancelled in light of needing to review the materials), 

and one other defendant who is on an extended vacation. Also driving this request in significant 

part is that an expert who is retained by the defendants, is completely unavailable during the 

period of time for which the trial is currently set, as explained in the accompanying Declaration of 

Ellen Shapiro. 

The court is apprised that counsel are working together cooperatively to get the final two 

depositions calendared, and to exchange some declarations that might avoid the need to re-take 

depositions of three of the social worker defendants whose involvement in this case, and the 

nature of their work generally, are related to the late discovered compilation discussed 

hereinabove, which is a manual regarding the performance of that nature of work. 

Based on the foregoing, the parties hereby stipulate and agree as follows, and ask that this 

court order same: 

1. The parties respectfully request that the Court continue trial of this matter from 

September 15, 2008 to November 17, 2008, and continue all other pre-trial dates a 

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corresponding amount of time, such that all bear the same relationship to the trial 

date as apply per the currently scheduled trial date. 

IT IS SO STIPULATED. 

Dated: 3/26/2008 LAW OFFICES OF ROBERT R. POWELL 

 

By:____ -/s/- Robert R. Powell_____ 

ROBERT R. POWELL, ESQ. 

Attorney for Plaintiff 

GEORGIY KULYA, INDIVIDUALLY, AND AS 

GUARDIAN AD LITEM FOR HIS MINOR CHILD 

YVAN K. 

Dated: 3/26/2008 DENNIS J. HERRERA 

City Attorney 

JOANNE HOEPER 

Chief Trial Deputy 

ELLEN SHAPIRO 

Deputy City Attorney 

 

By: ____-/s/- Ellen Shapiro________ 

ELLEN SHAPIRO 

Attorneys for Defendants 

CITY AND COUNTY OF SAN FRANCISCO, 

TRACY MCCRAY, FITZERALD WONG, 

MARIS GOLDSBOROUGH, CRAIG WILSON, 

BENNY LEW, TIM LAIRD, DEBORAH 

GOLDSTEIN, IVEY NZEREM, AND FAY ALI 

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DECLARATION OF ELLEN SHAPIRO IN SUPPORT OF STIPULATION TO 

CONTINUE TRIAL 

I, ELLEN SHAPIRO, declare: 

1. I am an attorney licensed to practice before this Court, am a Deputy City Attorney for the 

City and County of San Francisco, and am one of the attorneys of record for all defendants in this 

matter. I have personal knowledge of the facts stated in this Declaration. I could and would testify 

competently if called as a witness. 

2. On February 7, 2008 I received a commitment to consult in this matter from an expert in 

public child protective services social work practices. 

3. Of central importance in this case are (1) the standards of practice required of social 

workers, employed by public social service agencies, in the evaluation of and response to allegations 

of child abuse; and (2) whether the social worker defendants in this case met the relevant standards 

of practice. 

4. On February 11, 2008 the above-mentioned expert contacted me to say that she had just 

learned of a personal conflict that now made it impossible to honor the earlier commitment, and she 

referred me to a colleague. 

5. On February 14, 2008, the first proposed expert's colleague agreed to consult in this 

matter. 

6. On a date between March 17 and March 20, I learned from the first person' colleague that, 

despite previous assurances that this assignment would not conflict with other matters, her other 

responsibilities had changed and she was declining to consult further. 

7. Because of the above, I contacted counsel for plaintiff to ask that he agree to a trial 

continuance subject to Court approval. He graciously did so. 

8. I did not have reason to know or suspect that the above-mentioned consultants whom I 

contacted would become unavailable to work on this case, and therefore respectfully request that the 

Court accept the parties' stipulation to continue trial of this matter. 

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I declare under penalty of perjury that the foregoing is true and correct and that this 

declaration was executed on March 26, 2008 at San Francisco, California. 

 ____________________________________ 

 ELLEN SHAPIRO 

ORDER 

The Court having reviewed the above stipulation of the parties and declaration of Ellen 

Shapiro, and good cause appearing therefor, it is 

ORDERED that trial of this matter be and is hereby continued from September 15, 2008 to 

November 17, 2008, and that all pre-trial deadlines also be continued for nine weeks. 

IT IS FURTHER ORDERED that the pre-trial conference in this matter be held on 

______________________, 2008. 

Date: ___________________ ____________________________________ 

 HON. JEFFREY S. WHITE 

 UNITED STATES DISTRICT JUDGE 

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