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Nature of Suit Code: 310
Nature of Suit: Airplane Personal Injury
Cause of Action: 28:2671 Federal Tort Claims Act

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SECOND STIPULATION AND PROPOSED ORDER TO 

CONTINUE INITIAL SCHEDULING CONFERENCE 

AND FILING OF JOINT STATUS REPORT

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BENJAMIN C. MIZER

Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General

BENJAMIN B. WAGNER

United States Attorney

GREGORY T. BRODERICK

Assistant United States Attorney

STEVEN A. KIRSCH

steven.kirsch@usdoj.gov

Senior Trial Counsel

Torts Branch, Civil Division

U.S. Department of Justice

Post Office Box 14271

Washington, DC 20044-4271

Phone: (202) 616-4048

Fax: (202) 616-4159

Attorneys for Defendants United States of

America and Beale Aero Club 

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

James M. Grogan,

Plaintiff,

v.

Beale Aero Club, John Henry; United

States of America; and DOES 1-30,

Defendants.

No. 2:15-CV-00562-GEB-KJN

SECOND STIPULATION and 

[PROPOSED] ORDER TO CONTINUE 

INITIAL SCHEDULING CONFERENCE 

AND FILING OF JOINT STATUS 

REPORT 

This is a personal injury action against the United States pursuant to the Federal Tort 

Claims Act (“FTCA”) and John Henry, an individual Defendant who has not appeared in this 

action. The action was initiated in state court on January 14, 2015. The United States removed 

the action to this Court on March 12, 2015. On April 10, 2015, the United States filed a Motion 

to Dismiss arguing that the Court lacks jurisdiction over the FTCA component of the case 

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because Plaintiff did not exhaust administrative remedies before filing suit. The motion is fully 

briefed and was submitted without argument pursuant to the Court’s May 5, 2015 minute order. 

In an Order Setting Status (Pretrial Scheduling) Conference dated March 12, 2015, the 

Court set a pretrial scheduling conference for June 22, 2015, and also required the parties to 

confer and develop a proposed discovery plan by June 1, 2015 and submit a Joint Status Report 

by June 8, 2015. On May 29, 2015, the parties filed a Stipulation and Proposed Order to 

Continue the Initial Scheduling Conference and Filing of Joint Status Report due to the pendency 

of a dispositive motion with respect to the United States. On June 1, 2015, the Court acted upon 

that Stipulation by resetting the pretrial scheduling conference for August 3, 2015, and 

establishing July 20, 2015 as the deadline for filing a Joint Status Report.

The parties seek to continue the deadlines for the Joint Status Report and pretrial 

scheduling conference once more. Given the dispositive nature of the pending motion with 

respect to the United States, the parties remain in agreement that it would be more efficient for 

the Court to resolve the Motion to Dismiss before setting a schedule or engaging in other 

proceedings, and that the initial scheduling conference and development and filing of the Joint 

Status Report should be continued until after such resolution. Therefore, the undersigned parties 

stipulate to continue the initial scheduling conference to a date approximately 21 days after the 

Motion to Dismiss is resolved, or as otherwise set by the Court, with the Joint Status Report due 

fourteen days before the new date of the initial scheduling conference.1

 

1 Counsel for the United States, Steven A. Kirsch, respectfully requests that Monday, September 14, 2015 not be 

chosen as the new date of the initial scheduling conference because the Jewish holiday of Rosh Hashanah falls on 

that day.

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Respectfully submitted,

DATED: July 10, 2015 BENJAMIN C. MIZER

Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General

BENJAMIN B. WAGNER

United States Attorney

GREGORY T. BRODERICK

Assistant United States Attorney

/s/ Steven A. Kirsch 

STEVEN A. KIRSCH

Senior Trial Counsel

Torts Branch, Civil Division

U.S. Department of Justice

Post Office Box 14271

Washington, DC 20044-4271

Phone: (202) 616-4048

Fax: (202) 616-4159

steven.kirsch@usdoj.gov

DATED: July 10, 2015 /s/ Bradley W. Wahrlich (authorized on 7/10/2015)

Anthony S. Petru, Esq., State Bar No. 91399

Kristoffer S. Mayfield, Esq., State Bar No. 241093

Bradley W. Wahrlich, Esq., State Bar No. 261762

HILDEBRAND, McLEOD & NELSON, LLP

Westlake Building

350 Frank H. Ogawa Plaza, Fourth Floor

Oakland, CA 94612 -2006

Phone: (800) 447-7500

Fax: (510) 465-7023

warlich@hmnlaw.com

The pretrial scheduling conference is rescheduled for October 26, 2015, at 9:00 

a.m. A joint status report shall be filed fourteen days prior to the hearing.

IT IS SO ORDERED.

Dated: July 15, 2015

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PROOF OF SERVICE

I hereby certify that a true and correct copy of this Second Stipulation and 

[Proposed] Order to Continue Initial Status Conference and Joint Scheduling Report was 

sent via U.S. Mail, first class, postage prepaid, this 10th day of July, 2015, to the following 

counsel of record and party:

Anthony S. Petru, Esq.

Kristoffer S. Mayfield, Esq.

Bradley W. Wahrlich, Esq.

HILDEBRAND, McLEOD & NELSON, LLP

Westlake Building

350 Frank H. Ogawa Plaza, Fourth Floor

Oakland, CA 94612 -2006

Attorneys for Plaintiff

James M. Grogan

John Henry

5834 Park Avenue

Marysville, CA 95901

 /s/ Steven A. Kirsch 

 Senior Trial Counsel

 U.S. Department of Justice

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