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Nature of Suit Code: 440
Nature of Suit: Other Civil Rights
Cause of Action: 28:1441 Petition for Removal- Civil Rights Act

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[PROPOSED] ORDER GRANTING DEFENDANT’S MOTION TO DISMISS PLAINTIFF’S 

FIRST AMENDED COMPLAINT 

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Gregory M. Fox, State Bar No. 070876 

BERTRAND, FOX & ELLIOT 

The Waterfront Building 

2749 Hyde Street 

San Francisco, California 94109 

Telephone: (415) 353-0999 

Facsimile: (415) 353-0990 

Teresa L. Highsmith State Bar No. 155262 

Laura E. Zagaroli, State Bar No. 251682 

Office of the City Attorney 

2263 Santa Clara Avenue, Room 280 

Alameda, California 94501-4477 

Telephone: (510) 747-4750 

Facsimile: (510) 747-4767 

Attorneys for Defendant 

CITY OF ALAMEDA 

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 

JOHN DOHERTY, 

 Plaintiff, 

 vs. 

CITY OF ALAMEDA AND CITY OF 

ALAMEDA HOUSING AND BUILDING 

CODE HEARING AND APPEALS BOARD, 

 Defendants. 

 Case No.: CV09 4961 EDL

[PROPOSED] ORDER GRANTING

IN PART AND DENYING IN PART

DEFENDANT’S MOTION TO DISMISS 

PLAINTIFF’S FIRST AMENDED 

COMPLAINT [FRCP 12(b)(6)] 

 Defendant City of Alameda’s Motion to Dismiss the First Amended Complaint of plaintiff 

John Doherty came on regularly for hearing on December 15, 2009, before the Honorable Elizabeth 

D. Laporte, Magistrate Judge. Lee Grant appeared on behalf of plaintiff John Doherty and Laura E. 

Zagaroli and Gregory M. Fox appeared on behalf of defendant. 

 The Court, having considered all the papers and pleadings on file herein and the oral 

argument of counsel, HEREBY ORDERS THAT: 

 Defendant’s Motion to Dismiss the First Cause of Action of the First Amended Complaint is 

denied.

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 Defendant’s Motion to Dismiss the Second Cause of Action of the First Amended Complaint 

is granted with leave to amend. 

 Defendant’s Motion to Dismiss the Third Cause of Action of the First Amended Complaint is 

granted with prejudice as unopposed by plaintiff.

 The matter is ordered to Early Neutral Evaluation. The Case Management Conference and 

related Rule 26 disclosures continued to March 30, 2010. A joint case management conference 

statement to be filed on or before March 23, 2010. Formal discovery stayed pending completion of 

the ENE but each party may in the meantime take 1 or 2 depositions to facilitate the ENE. 

IT IS SO ORDERED. 

Dated: 

 UNITED STATES DISTRICT JUDGE 

Approved as to form: 

 /s/ 

Lee Grant, Attorney for Plaintiff 

ATTORNEY ATTESTATION 

I hereby attest that I have on file all holograph signatures for any signatures indicated by a 

conformed signature (“/s/”) within this E-filed document. 

Dated: January 13, 2010 /s/ 

 Gregory M. Fox 

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January 14, 2010 MAGISTRATE

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