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Nature of Suit Code: 446
Nature of Suit: Americans with Disabilities Act - Other
Cause of Action: 42:12101 Americans with Disabilities Act

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STIPULATION CONTINUING SETTLEMENT CONFERENCE AND REBUTTAL EXPERT DISCLOSURE 

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KATHLEEN E. FINNERTY (SBN 157638)

MARC B. KOENIGSBERG (SBN 204265) 

GREENBERG TRAURIG, LLP 

1201 K Street, Suite 1100 

Sacramento, CA 95814-3938 

Telephone: (916) 442-1111 

Facsimile: (916) 448-1709 

Finnertyk@gtlaw.com 

Koenigsbergm@gtlaw.com 

Attorneys for Defendants 

Virgin Sturgeon, Inc., Buffer Properties, 

and Laraine C. Patching 

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 

FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 

CONNIE ARNOLD, 

 Plaintiff, 

v. 

VIRGIN STURGEON, INC.; VIRGIN 

STURGEON, LLC,; BUFFER 

PROPERTIES, LLC.; LARAINE C. 

PATCHING; and DOES 1-10, inclusive,

 Defendants. 

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CASE NO. 2:07-CV-01600-WBS-DAD 

STIPULATION CONTINUING 

SETTLEMENT CONFERENCE AND 

REBUTTAL EXPERT DISCLOSURE

AND ORDER THEREON 

Plaintiff, CONNIE ARNOLD and Defendants VIRGIN STURGEON, INC., 

BUFFER PROPERTIES, LLC, LARAINE C. PATCHING and VIRGIN STURGEON, 

LLC (“Defendants”), by and through their designated counsel, stipulate as follows: 

1. During the last several months, the parties have been engaging in 

substantive settlement negotiations pertaining to the injunctive relief plaintiff seeks in 

this case. 

2. The parties are making significant progress in resolving this case without 

the need to seek the Court’s guidance. 

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3. On or about December 7, 2007, plaintiff disclosed her expert Barry 

Atwood and produced his report. Prior to that date, Ms. Patching retained expert Kim 

Blackseth who is well known to this Court. Ordinarily, Mr. Blackseth would have then 

traveled from his office in Oakland to Sacramento to inspect the facility and prepare a 

rebuttal report. However, Mr. Blackseth has been hospitalized on several occasions in 

the last ten weeks, and has been unable to travel. Mr. Atwood and plaintiff’s counsel 

have been aware of Mr. Blackseth’s recent health issues. 

4. Mr. Blackseth is still recuperating, though he is being released from the 

hospital on February 5, 2008. 

5. Given the parties’ cooperation and active settlement negotiations with 

substantive progress, it is in the parties’ and the Court’s interest to continue the 

February 5, 2008, settlement conference to March 20, 2008, at 10:00 a.m. The parties 

are confident that the case can either be fully resolved by then, or the issues 

substantially narrowed, lessening or obviating the need for a Court-supervised 

settlement conference. 

6. Moreover, given the parties’ settlement negotiations, and Mr. Blackseth’s 

health challenges, the parties desire to continue until March 28, 2008, the disclosure of 

rebuttal experts and production of reports. Plaintiff may also serve an amended expert 

report at this time, as discovery is still in its earliest stages and plaintiff’s expert’s 

analysis may change depending on pending discovery. Defendants will then have 14 

days in which to serve a supplemental rebuttal report responding to plaintiff’s amended 

report. 

7. Concurrent with the filing of this stipulation, the parties are also filing a 

stipulation for Judge Shubb’s review requesting a continuance of the close of discovery 

from March 28, 2008, to April 28, 2008, to allow the parties additional time to resolve 

this case without having to engage in what may be unnecessary and expensive 

discovery. 

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IT IS SO STIPULATED. 

DATED: February 5, 2008 LAW OFFICES OF PAUL L. REIN 

 By: /s/ Julie Ostil 

 PAUL REIN 

JULIE OSTIL 

 Attorney for Plaintiff 

 Connie Arnold 

DATED: February 5, 2008 GREENBERG TRAURIG, LLP 

 By: /s/ Marc B. Koenigsberg 

 KATHLEEN E. FINNERTY 

 MARC B. KOENIGSBERG 

 Attorneys for Defendants 

 Virgin Sturgeon, Inc., Buffer 

 Properties, and Laraine C. Patching 

DATED: February 5, 2008 LINDSAY & STONEBARGER 

 By: /s/ Gene Stonebarger 

 Gene Stonebarger 

 Attorney for Defendant 

 Virgin Sturgeon, LLC 

ORDER

Good cause appearing, the request of the parties to continue the Settlement 

Conference and the disclosure of rebuttal experts and their reports is GRANTED. The 

Settlement Conference is continued to March 20, 2008, at 10:00 a.m., and the deadline 

to disclose rebuttal experts and produce their reports, and for plaintiff to produce a 

revised expert report, is continued to March 28, 2008. Defendants will then have 14 

days in which to serve a supplemental rebuttal report responding to plaintiff’s 

revised report. 

IT IS SO ORDERED. 

DATED: February 5, 2008. 

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