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Nature of Suit Code: 950
Nature of Suit: Contitutionality of State Statutes
Cause of Action: 42:1983 Civil Rights Act

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STIPULATION AND [PROPOSED] ORDER Case No: 1:07-CV-01382-OWW-SMS 

RE: STAY OF PROCEEDING

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EDMUND G. BROWN JR.

Attorney General of the State of California

CHRISTOPHER E. KRUEGER

Senior Assistant Attorney General

DOUGLAS J. WOODS

Supervising Deputy Attorney General

KATHLEEN A. LYNCH, State Bar No. 171901

Deputy Attorney General

1300 I Street, Suite 125

P.O. Box 944255

Sacramento, CA 94244-2550

Telephone: (916) 445-7480

Fax: (916) 324-8835

Email: Kathleen.Lynch@doj.ca.gov

Attorneys for Defendant Edmund G. Brown Jr.,

Attorney General of California, in his official capacity

IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

WILLIAM ROE,

Plaintiff,

v.

ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER, Governor

of California, in his official capacity, EDMUND

G. BROWN JR., Attorney General of

California, in his official capacity, BRIDGET

FLADAGER, District Attorney of Stanislaus

County, California in her official capacity,

JERRY POWERS, Chief Probation Officer of

Stanislaus County, California in his official

capacity,

Defendants.

Case No: 1:07-CV-01382-OWW-SMS

STIPULATION AND 

ORDER RE: 

STAY OF PROCEEDINGS

Courtroom: 3

Judge: The Honorable

Oliver W. Wanger

Cmplt Filed: September 19, 2007

Amd Cmplt Filed: October 5, 2007

On November 7, 2006, the voters of California enacted Proposition 83, the Sexual

Predator Punishment and Control Act (“SPPCA”). One provision of the SPPCA prohibits

persons convicted of certain crimes from living within 2,000 feet of a school or park where

children gather. The first amended complaint alleges that the retroactive application of this

residency restriction violates the ex post facto and due process clause of the United States

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Constitution upon the facts presented. Judgment was imposed and plaintiff was placed on

probation without incarceration after the effective date of the SPPCA for an offense that occurred

prior to its enactment.

The issue of whether the SPPCA may apply retroactively to persons who had been

incarcerated within the California State Penitentiary and thereafter were released upon parole

after enactment of the SPPCA for crimes which occurred prior to its enactment is a question of

California law that is currently before the California Supreme Court on the petition for habeas

corpus, In re E.J.,S.P., J.S., K.T., case number S156933. The Supreme Court’s determination of

the state law retroactivity issue could obviate further litigation of some issues raised in this action

depending upon the nature and scope of that determination. Therefore, the parties agree that

proceedings in this court may properly be deferred pending the California Supreme Court’s

determination of an important and unsettled issue of California law.

Based on the foregoing, the parties stipulate and agree that this litigation is stayed until

thirty (30) days after the California Supreme Court’s decision In re E.J.,S.P., J.S., K.T., becomes

final as to that Court, including any intervening remand by it to a Superior Court or Court of

Appeal. 

Dated: November___, 2007 By______________________________

Michael Rothschild

Rothschild Wishek & Sands, LLP

Attorney for Plaintiff

William Roe

Dated: November___, 2007 By______________________________

Kelcie M. Gosling

Mennemeier, Glassman & Stroud, LLP

Attorneys for Defendant 

Arnold Schwarzenegger, Governor of

California, in his official capacity

Dated: November___, 2007 By______________________________

Kathleen A. Lynch

Office of the Attorney General

Attorneys for Defendant

Edmund G. Brown Jr., 

Attorney General of California,

in his official capacity

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STIPULATION AND [PROPOSED] ORDER Case No: 1:07-CV-01382-OWW-SMS 

RE: STAY OF PROCEEDING

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Dated: November ___, 2007 By______________________________

Dan Farrar

Attorney at Law

Attorneys for Defendants

Bridget Fladager, District Attorney

of Stanislaus County, California, in 

her official capacity and Jerry Powers, 

Chief Probation Officer of Stanislaus

County, California, in his official capacity

IT IS SO ORDERED.

Dated: November 20, 2007 /s/ Oliver W. Wanger 

emm0d6 UNITED STATES DISTRICT JUDGE

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