Source: s3://data.kl3m.ai/documents/govinfo/USCOURTS/USCOURTS-cand-4_18-cv-06964/USCOURTS-cand-4_18-cv-06964-2/pdf.json

Nature of Suit Code: 440
Nature of Suit: Other Civil Rights
Cause of Action: 42:1983 Civil Rights Act

---

1

2

3

4

5

6

7

8

9

10

11

12

13

14

15

16

17

18

19

20

21

22

23

24

25

26

27

28

1

STIPULATION AND ORDER TO CONTINUE INITIAL CASE MANAGEMENT CONFERENCE 

Flatten v. City of Rohnert Park, et al. U.S.D.C. Northern District Case No.: 4:18-cv-06964-HSG 

Gregory M. Fox, State Bar No. 070876 

Parry A. Black, State Bar No. 291472 

BERTRAND, FOX, ELLIOT, OSMAN & WENZEL 

The Waterfront Building 

2749 Hyde Street 

San Francisco, California 94109 

Telephone: (415) 353-0999 

Facsimile: (415) 353-0990 

Email: gfox@bfesf.com

pblack@bfesf.com 

Attorneys for Defendant 

CITY OF ROHNERT PARK 

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 

EZEKIAL FLATTEN, 

 Plaintiff, 

v. 

CITY OF ROHNERT PARK, JACY TATUM, 

JOSEPH HUFFAKER, THE HOPLAND 

BAND OF POMO INDIANS, STEVE HOBB, 

and DOES 1-50, inclusive, 

 Defendants. 

Case No. 4:18-cv-06964-HSG 

STIPULATION AND [PROPOSED] ORDER TO 

CONTINUE INITIAL CASE MANAGEMENT 

CONFERENCE 

Date: February 19, 2019 

Time: 2:00 p.m. 

Location: Oakland Courthouse 

 Courtroom 2 - 4th Floor 

 1301 Clay Street, 

 Oakland, CA 94612 

Hon. Haywood S. Gilliam, Jr. 

IT IS HEREBY STIPULATED BY AND BETWEEN plaintiff EZEKIAL FLATTEN, defendant 

CITY OF ROHNERT PARK (City), defendant JOSEPH HUFFAKER, and defendant JACY TATUM, 

by and through their counsels of record, that the Initial Case Management Conference currently set for 

February 19, 2019, be continued to April 2, 2019, or a date thereafter that is convenient for the court. 

/// 

Case 4:18-cv-06964-HSG Document 30 Filed 02/12/19 Page 1 of 3
1

2

3

4

5

6

7

8

9

10

11

12

13

14

15

16

17

18

19

20

21

22

23

24

25

26

27

28

2

STIPULATION AND ORDER TO CONTINUE INITIAL CASE MANAGEMENT CONFERENCE 

Flatten v. City of Rohnert Park, et al. U.S.D.C. Northern District Case No.: 4:18-cv-06964-HSG 

Good cause exists for this continuance for the following reasons. The City has filed a motion to 

dismiss with a hearing date of March 28, 2019. The parties are meeting and conferring about the 4th and 

14th Amendment claims given the decision in Barrios v. City of Tulare 2014 WL 2174766 (E.D. Cal. 

May 23, 2014) and related cases. Defendant Tatum is now represented by legal counsel and will be 

appearing once his legal counsel is served and files a responsive pleading. Counsel for the City is 

starting a federal jury trial in the Eastern District Monday February 11, 2019, with the trial expected to 

end Friday February 22, 2019. (Lewis v City of Fairfield 2:16 cv01053 JAM.) A notice of related case 

was filed in this case on February 8, 2019, regarding the case of Freeman v. City of Rohnert Park et al

(4:18 cv 07661 DMR filed on December 20, 2018) which includes the City and the two named individual 

defendants in this matter. More time is therefore necessary to complete the meet and confer process to 

prepare a joint case management conference statement. For all the good cause stated above, the parties 

respectfully request this Court continue the Initial Case Management Conference from February 19, 

2019, to April 2, 2019, or a date thereafter as is convenient to the court. The joint case management 

conference and related Rule 26 disclosures now due March 26, 2019. Plaintiff also agrees to defer 

Monell discovery until after the March 28, 2019 hearing on the City Motion to Dismiss. 

IT IS SO STIPULATED. 

Dated: February 12, 2019 BERTRAND, FOX, ELLIOT, OSMAN & WENZEL

 By: /s/ Gregory M. Fox 

 Gregory M. Fox 

 Parry A. Black 

 Attorneys for Defendant 

 CITY OF ROHNERT PARK 

Dated: February 12, 2019 SCOTT LAW FIRM 

 By: /s/ John Houston Scott 

 John Houston Scott 

 Attorney for Plaintiff 

 EZEKIAL FLATTEN 

Case 4:18-cv-06964-HSG Document 30 Filed 02/12/19 Page 2 of 3
1

2

3

4

5

6

7

8

9

10

11

12

13

14

15

16

17

18

19

20

21

22

23

24

25

26

27

28

3

STIPULATION AND ORDER TO CONTINUE INITIAL CASE MANAGEMENT CONFERENCE 

Flatten v. City of Rohnert Park, et al. U.S.D.C. Northern District Case No.: 4:18-cv-06964-HSG 

Dated: February 12, 2019 ALLEN, GLAESSNER, HAZELWOOD & WERTH 

 By: /s/ Dale L. Allen, Jr. 

 Dale L. Allen, Jr. 

 Kevin Patrick Allen 

 Attorneys for Defendant 

 JOSEPH HUFFAKER 

Dated: February 12, 2019 ANGELO, KILDAY & KILDUFF 

 By: /s/ Derick Konz 

 Bruce Kilday 

 Derick Konz 

 Attorneys for Defendant 

 JACY TATUM 

ATTORNEY ATTESTATION 

 I, Gregory M. Fox, am the ECF user whose identification and password are being used to file the 

foregoing documents. Pursuant to Civil Local Rule 5.1(i), I hereby attest that concurrence in the filing of 

these documents has been obtained from each of its Signatories.

Dated: February 12, 2019 By: /s/ Gregory M. Fox 

 Gregory M. Fox 

ORDER 

GOOD CAUSE APPEARING THEREFORE, and the parties’ having stipulated to the same, the 

parties’ stipulation is hereby APPROVED. The Initial Case Management Conference currently set for 

February 19, 2019, is continued to March 28, 2019, at 2:00 p.m., to be heard along with the motion to 

dismiss. 

IT IS SO ORDERED. 

Dated: February 12, 2019 

Haywood S. Gilliam, Jr. 

UNITED STATES DISTRICT JUDGE 

Case 4:18-cv-06964-HSG Document 30 Filed 02/12/19 Page 3 of 3