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Nature of Suit Code: 442
Nature of Suit: Civil Rights Employment
Cause of Action: 42:1983 Civil Rights (Employment Discrimination)

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JOINT REQUEST FOR ADDITIONAL TIME TO SUBMIT 

DISMISSAL PAPERS OR REQUEST NEW TRIAL DATE.

EDMUND G. BROWN JR.

Attorney General of the State of California

JACOB A. APPELSMITH

Senior Assistant Attorney General

BARBARA J. SEIDMAN

Supervising Deputy Attorney General

SCOTT H. WYCKOFF, State Bar No. 191367

Deputy Attorney General

1300 I Street, Suite 125

P.O. Box 944255

Sacramento, CA 94244-2550

Telephone: (916) 324-5335

Fax: (916) 324-5567

Attorneys for Defendants 

California Department of 

Developmental Services, 

Clifford Allenby, Deborah 

Meeker, Teresa Billeci, 

Glen Barawed, Dan Sands, 

and Tony Campo 

LAWRENCE J. KING State Bar No. 120805

6 “C” Street 

Petaluma, CA 94952

Phone: (707) 769-9791

Fax: (707) 769-9253

Attorney for Plaintiff

Karuna Anand, M.D. 

THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

KARUNA ANAND, M.D., 

Plaintiff,

vs.

CALIFORNIA DEPARTMENT OF

DEVELOPMENTAL SERVICES, et al.,

Defendants.

 

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CASE NO. C-04-1575 LKK/GGH

JOINT REQUEST FOR ADDITIONAL

TIME TO SUBMIT DISMISSAL

PAPERS OR REQUEST NEW TRIAL

DATE AND PROPOSED ORDER.

Trial Date: Not currently on calendar.

On June 27, 2007, the parties hereto notified the Court that they had reached a settlement of

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1 See National Institute of Neurological Disorders & Strokes web site for more

information concerning Guillian Barre Syndrome

(http://www.ninds.nih.gov/disorders/gbs/gbs.htm).

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this case. In order to allow the defendants to obtain necessary approvals, the parties requested that

the Court give the parties sixty (60) days to submit to the Court the documents necessary to

effectuate the settlement and a dismissal of this case, including a stipulation and proposed Court

order restoring Plaintiff’s service credits, upon the payment by DDS of Plaintiff’s employee pension

contributions. On June 29, 2007, the Court granted the parties’ request and issued an order requiring

the parties to submit the dispositional papers within sixty days of the Court’s order.

The parties hereto, by and through their counsel of record, hereby request additional time,

until November 1, 2007, to submit to the Court the documents necessary to effectuate the settlement

and a dismissal of this case, or to request a new trial date. As explained below, there are two reasons

for this request. 

First, a critical term of the settlement agreement involves the restoration of Plaintiff’s

pension service credits. The parties are currently working with CalPERS, the state agency which

would have to approve the restoration of Plaintiff’s pension service credits, to determine what it will

cost to restore Plaintiff’s pension service credits. The parties original understanding of how that

restoration might be accomplished has proven to be in error. Accordingly, the parties are working

with CalPERS to determine how to effectuate the restoration of Plaintiff’s service credits in a

manner that meets the monetary limitations of the parties’ settlement agreement.

Second, during the course of these negotiations, Plaintiff has suffered a severe medical crisis:

Guillian Barre Syndrome.1

 She contracted a virus to which her immune system created an antibody

that attacked her nerve endings, preventing the nerves from communicating messages from the brain

to the her muscular system. Plaintiff lost all feeling and movement, first in her feet, then her legs,

and eventually was paralyzed from the waist down. In order to halt the progression of this disease

to her lungs, which would have been fatal, Plaintiff was admitted into the intensive care unit, where

her entire blood supply was run through a machine over several hours to “wash” the antibody out

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2 Neorontin and Vicodin.

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of her system. This “wash” was repeated several times over the period of days, until the progress

of the disease was halted. It is anticipated that Plaintiff will fully recover over a period of several

months, but in the meantime she is taking powerful pain medications2 that her treating physician

has informed her interfere with her ability to make informed decisions. Accordingly, any proposed

changes in the essential terms of the settlement agreement that may be necessary to effectuate the

restoration of her pension service credits will have to wait until her counsel obtains confirmation

from her treating physician that she is no longer taking any medications that might interfere with

her ability to make informed decisions concerning the settlement agreement. 

For the foregoing reasons, the parties respectfully request that the Court extend until

November 1, 2007, the deadline for the parties to submit the dispositional papers or request a new

trial date.

Dated: July 30, 2007 EDMUND G. BROWN JR.

Attorney General of the State of California

JACOB A. APPELSMITH

Senior Assistant Attorney General

BARBARA J. SEIDMAN

Supervising Deputy Attorney General

By: /s/ Scott H. Wyckoff 

Scott H. Wyckoff

Deputy Attorney General

ATTORNEYS FOR DEFENDANTS

Dated: July 30, 2007 LAW OFFICES OF LAWRENCE J. KING 

By: /s/ Lawrence J. King Lawrence J. King

ATTORNEY FOR PLAINTIFF

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JOINT REQUEST FOR ADDITIONAL TIME TO SUBMIT 

DISMISSAL PAPERS OR REQUEST NEW TRIAL DATE.

[PROPOSED] ORDER

Having reviewed the joint request submitted by the parties and finding good cause in support

thereof, it is hereby ordered that the deadline for the parties to file the dispositional papers in this

case or to request a new trial date be extended to November 1, 2007.

IT IS SO ORDERED.

Dated: July 30, 2007.

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