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Nature of Suit Code: 893
Nature of Suit: Environmental Matters
Cause of Action: 42:9607 Real Property Tort to Land

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SCOTT H. REISCH (CA Bar No. 139559) 

HOGAN & HARTSON LLP 

One Tabor Center 

1200 Seventeenth Street 

Denver, CO 80202 

Telephone: (303) 899-7300 

Facsimile: (303) 899-7333 

Email: shreisch@hhlaw.com 

MICHAEL V. BRADY (CA Bar No. 146370) 

MICHAEL E. VINDING (CA Bar No. 178359) 

DIEPENBROCK HARRISON 

400 Capitol Mall, Suite 1800 

Sacramento, CA 95814 

Telephone: (916) 446-4469 

Facsimile: (916) 446-4535 

Email: mbrady@diepenbrock.com 

Attorneys for Defendant 

FOX CAPITAL MANAGEMENT CORPORATION 

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 

EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 

SEVEN SPRINGS LIMITED 

PARTNERSHIP, a Missouri limited 

partnership, 

 Plaintiff, 

 v. 

FOX CAPITAL MANAGEMENT 

CORPORATION, a California corporation, 

 Defendant. 

Case No. 07-CV-00142-LKK-GGH 

STIPULATION AND ORDER 

EXTENDING FOX’S DEADLINE FOR 

JOINING ADDITIONAL PARTIES 

 Defendant Fox Capital Management Corporation (“Fox”) and Plaintiff Seven Springs 

Limited Partnership (“Seven Springs”) and, by and through their respective counsel, respectfully 

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request that the Court grant, in the form of an Order, the parties’ stipulated request to extend Fox’s 

deadline for joining additional parties. In support of this stipulated request, the parties state as 

follows: 

1. In an Order dated June 12, 2007, the Court set August 11, 2007 as the deadline for 

Fox to join additional parties (“June 2007 Order”). 

2. In response to a joint stipulation filed by the parties on July 25, 2007, on July 30, 

2007 the Court extended Seven Springs’ deadline for its responses and objections to Fox’s First 

Amended Request for Production of Documents (“Fox’s Document Request”) to August 31, 2007 

and extended Fox’s deadline for joining additional parties to October 31, 2007 (“July 2007 Order”). 

As cited in the joint stipulation, the primary reason for the extensions was that, despite diligent 

efforts by Seven Springs to collect potentially relevant and responsive documents from several 

different sources, the document collection process was considerably more complex and was taking 

significantly longer than Seven Springs anticipated. In addition, the joint stipulation noted that Fox 

has had no connection with the property that is the subject of this litigation for over twenty years 

and is not in a position to complete its review of potential additional parties until it has had an 

opportunity to review and evaluate the information and documents produced by Seven Springs in 

response to Fox’s Document Request. 

3. Seven Springs represents that since the Court issued the July 2007 Order, it has 

continued its diligent collection, processing, review, and production of potentially relevant and 

responsive paper and electronic documents from multiple sources, including: (1) Jim Meredith, the 

property manager for the South Y Shopping Center; (2) Commerce Trust Company (“Commerce”), 

which, in its capacity as trustee of the Jack R. Lyddon Trust II, serves as the managing member of 

Real Estate Management Associates (“REMA”), the sole general partner of Seven Springs; and (3) 

PES Environmental, Inc., Seven Springs’ environmental consultant (“PES”). 

4. On August 31, 2007, Seven Springs served Fox with its response to Fox’s Document 

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Request, which included its objections to Fox’s Document Request, and stated that Seven Springs 

would produce all non-privileged responsive documents to Fox on a rolling basis, subject to its 

objections and a protective order proposed by the parties, which was submitted to the Court on 

August 15, 2007. 

5. Seven Springs is in the process of collecting, reviewing, processing and producing 

both paper documents and electronic documents. The parties have agreed that Seven Springs will 

produce paper documents and electronic documents in TIFF format with associated “load files” (as 

applicable). Fox will then create a Concordance database of the documents with OCR capabilities. 

Paper Documents

6. Seven Springs has collected, processed, and reviewed approximately 3,000 pages of 

paper documents from PES, and produced to Fox nearly 2,000 pages of documents from PES. 

7. Seven Springs has collected, processed, and reviewed approximately 47,000 pages 

of paper documents from Mr. Meredith, and produced to Fox approximately 20,000 pages of 

documents from Mr. Meredith. 

8. Seven Springs has collected and processed – and continues to review – 

approximately 67,000 pages of paper documents from multiple Commerce offices in Missouri. 

Seven Springs has produced to Fox over 5,000 pages of documents from Commerce. 

9. Seven Springs will complete its production of all paper documents by October 12, 

2007. 

Commerce and Meredith Electronic Documents

10. Seven Springs collected and processed in excess of 60 gigabytes of electronic 

documents from Mr. Meredith and Commerce. The parties negotiated a filter list of search terms to 

reduce the amount of electronic data for review. This filter list only reduced the volume of 

electronic documents to 10 gigabytes (750,000 pages). In light of this large volume, Seven Springs 

revised the filter list and re-applied it to the data. Seven Springs is now left with approximately 5 

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gigabytes (375,000 pages) of electronic documents to for review for relevance. 

11. Seven Springs will begin reviewing these electronic documents once it has 

completed its paper document production, and will produce relevant, non-privileged documents on 

a rolling basis. Based upon the volume of materials, the electronic format, and the potential that 

technical difficulties could arise, Seven Springs’ best estimate is that it will complete its production 

of relevant electronic documents from Mr. Meredith and Commerce by November 30, 2007. 

PES Electronic Documents

12. PES’ electronic data was initially collected by a PES IT employee. Seven Springs 

recently learned from its electronic discovery vendor that the PES data -- approximately 10–12 

gigabytes -- contains numerous sector errors and many corrupted files. Seven Springs has engaged 

an outside consultant to re-collect the PES data. Seven Springs will process and review all 

uncorrupted data that its consultant succeeds in collecting from PES. Seven Springs may have as 

much as 3 gigabytes (approximately 225,000 pages) to review for relevance after collection, reprocessing, and application of the filters list. 

13. Based upon the volume of materials, the electronic format, and the potential that 

technical difficulties could arise, Seven Springs’ best estimate is that it will complete its review and 

production of all relevant, uncorrupted PES electronic data by November 30, 2007. 

14. As it has been doing, Seven Springs will keep Fox informed of any changes in its 

anticipated production schedule. 

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Deadline to Name Additional Parties

15. In light of the volume of documents that Seven Springs needs to collect, process, and 

review, as well as the time it is expected to take to complete the review and production, and in light 

of Fox’s need for these documents before it can determine which additional parties to join in this 

matter, the parties further stipulate and respectfully request the Court’s approval that Fox’s deadline 

for joining additional parties be extended until 90 days after Seven Springs has completed its 

production, excluding disputes relating to privilege logs. As discussed above, Seven Springs 

currently anticipates completing its production by November 30, 2007, excluding disputes relating 

to privilege logs. Seven Springs will provide notice to Fox when it has completed its production.

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Dated: October 3, 2007 HOGAN & HARTSON LLP 

 By: /s/ Scott H. Reisch 

Scott H. Reisch (CA Bar No. 139559) 

Attorneys for Defendant 

FOX CAPITAL MANAGEMENT 

CORPORATION 

 DIEPENBROCK HARRISON 

By: /s/ Michael V. Vinding 

 Michael V. Brady (CA Bar No. 146370) 

Michael E. Vinding (CA Bar No. 178359) 

Attorneys for Defendant 

FOX CAPITAL MANAGEMENT 

CORPORATION 

Dated: October 3, 2007 MORRISON & FOERSTER LLP 

By: /s/ Brooks M. Beard 

Brooks M. Beard (CA Bar No. 181271) 

Rachael Clarke (CA Bar No. 248844) 

Attorneys for Plaintiff 

SEVEN SPRINGS LIMITED PARTNERSHIP 

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ORDER

Pursuant to stipulation and for good cause shown, 

1. Subject to its written objections, Seven Springs Limited Partnership (“Seven 

Springs”) will produce to Fox Capital Management Corporation (“Fox”) paper documents 

responsive to Fox’s Amended First Request for Production (dated June 25, 2007) (“Fox’s 

Document Request”), in the format agreed to by the parties, on a rolling basis and expects to 

complete such production by October 12, 2007. 

2. Subject to its written objections, Seven Springs will produce to Fox electronic 

documents responsive to Fox’s Document Request, in the format agreed to by the parties, on a 

rolling basis and expects to complete such production by November 30, 2007. 

3. Upon completing such production, Seven Springs shall provide written notice to 

Fox. 

4. Based on the dates referenced above, Fox’s deadline for joining additional parties is 

extended to the date ninety days after Seven Springs notifies Fox in writing that it has completed its 

production, in accordance with Paragraph 3. 

Dated: October 16, 2007 

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CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE

I hereby certify that on this 3rd day of October, 2007, I caused a true and correct copy of the 

foregoing STIPULATION AND [PROPOSED] ORDER REGARDING SEVEN SPRINGS’ 

PRIVILEGE LOG AND EXTENDING FOX’S DEADLINE FOR JOINING ADDITIONAL 

PARTIES to be placed in the United States mail, postage prepaid, addressed as follows:

Brooks M. Beard 

Rachael Clarke 

Morrison & Foerster LLP 

425 Market Street 

San Francisco, CA 94105-2482 

bbeard@mofo.com 

rclarke@mofo.com 

 /s/ Scott H. Reisch 

 Scott H. Reisch 

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