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Nature of Suit Code: 720
Nature of Suit: Labor Management Relations Act
Cause of Action: 29:185 Labor/Mgt. Relations (Contracts)

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STIPULATION TO EXTEND TIME TO 

RESPOND TO COMPLAINT Case No.: 3:17-cv-03037-RS 

James A. Carter (CBN 33119) 

Michelle Q. Carter (CBN 184005) 

CARTER CARTER FRIES & GRUNSCHLAG 

44 Montgomery Street, Suite 2405 

San Francisco, CA 94104 

Telephone: 415.989.4800 

Facsimile: 415.989.4864 

Email: michelle@carterfries.com 

Attorneys for Defendants 

MANIGLIA LANDSCAPE, INC.; COHEN 

LANDSCAPE SERVICES, INC.; THE CELTIS 

GROUP, INC.; LANDSCAPE CONTRACTORS 

COUNCIL OF NORTHERN CALIFORNIA 

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 

SAN FRANCISCO DIVISION 

UNITED ASSOCIATION OF JOURNEYMAN 

AND APPRENTICES OF THE PLUMBING 

AND PIPE FITTING INDUSTRY, 

UNDERGROUND UTILITY/LANDSCAPE 

LOCAL UNION NO. 355, ET AL., 

Plaintiffs, 

v. 

MANIGLIA LANDSCAPE, INC., ET AL., 

Defendants. 

Case No.: 3:17-cv-03037-RS 

STIPULATION AND [PROPOSED] 

ORDER TO EXTEND TIME FOR 

PLAINTIFFS TO RESPOND TO 

DEFENDANTS’ MOTIONS TO 

DISMISS; AND TO CONTINUE THE 

CASE MANAGEMENT CONFERENCE 

AND ASSOCIATED DEADLINES; 

DECLARATION OF MICHELLE 

CARTER IN SUPPORT 

Pursuant to Civil Local Rule 6-1(b), 6-2, 7-12, and 16-2(d), Plaintiffs UNITED 

ASSOCIATION OF JOURNEYMAN AND APPRENTICES OF THE PLUMBING AND PIPE 

FITTING INDUSTRY UNDERGROUND UTILITY/LANDSCAPE LOCAL UNION NO. 355, 

MIGUEL INIGUEZ and FELIPE HERNANDEZ as Local 355 Trustees, FRANCISCO CRUZ 

ORTIZ, and ALEJANDRO TREJO (“Plaintiffs”), Defendants MANIGLIA LANDSCAPE, INC., 

COHEN LANDSCAPE SERVICES, INC., THE CELTIS GROUP, INC., and LANDSCAPE 

CONTRACTORS COUNCIL OF NORTHERN CALIFORNIA (“Contractor Defendants”) and 

Defendants OSCAR DE LA TORRE, DOYLE RADFORD, DAVID GORGAS, BRUCE RUST, 

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STIPULATION TO EXTEND TIME AND 

CONTINUE CMC AND RELATED DATES 2 Case No.: 3:17-cv-03037-RS 

FERNANDO ESTRADA, BRYON LONEY, ROBERT CHRISP, BILL KOPONEN, LARRY 

NIBBI and MANUEL DE SANTIAGO (“Laborers Trustee Defendants”) (all collectively 

“Defendants”) (all, along with Plaintiffs, the “Parties”), hereby submit the following stipulation: 

WHEREAS, both the Contractor Defendants and the Laborers Trustee Defendants have 

filed motions to dismiss the Plaintiffs’ complaint (“Dismissal Motions”), which are currently set 

to be heard on September 14, 2017; Plaintiffs’ responses to the Dismissal Motions are currently 

due on August 11 and August 17, 2017; the Parties believe that an extension of time to August 

24, 2017 for Plaintiffs to respond to the Dismissal Motions would be in the interests of justice and 

judicial economy; and the requested change would not alter the hearing date but would change the 

deadline for Defendants to file their replies, if any (see Declaration of Michelle Carter in Support 

of Stipulation (“Carter Decl.”) ¶¶ 2-4); 

WHEREAS, the granting of some/all of the Dismissal Motions could dispose of the entire 

action or remove Defendants from the litigation; the parties do not want to spend time and money 

engaging in potentially unnecessary litigation-related activities or waste the Court’s time and 

resources unnecessarily while the status of the case is uncertain; the Parties believe a continuance 

of the case management conference from August 24, 2017 to October 12, 2017, along with a 

corresponding extension of all related deadlines to a time after the Dismissal Motions have been 

heard, would be in the interests of justice and judicial economy; and the requested continuance of 

the case management conference would change the associated deadlines in the initial scheduling 

order to September 21, 2017 and October 5, 2017 (see Carter Decl. ¶¶ 5-7); and 

WHEREAS, the only prior extension in this lawsuit was a stipulated extension of the 

deadline for Contractor Defendants to respond the first amended complaint (see Carter Decl. ¶ 8); 

NOW, THEREFORE, IT IS HEREBY STIPULATED by and between the Parties, 

through their respective counsel, that: 

Plaintiffs shall respond to the Dismissal Motions on or before August 24, 2017; 

Defendants shall file any replies in support of the Motions on or before August 31, 2017; 

The Initial Case Management Conference shall be continued from August 24, 2017 to 

October 12, 2017 at 10:00 a.m. in Courtroom 3, 17th Floor, 450 Golden Gate Ave., S.F.; 

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STIPULATION TO EXTEND TIME AND 

CONTINUE CMC AND RELATED DATES 3 Case No.: 3:17-cv-03037-RS 

The associated deadlines identified in the initial scheduling order shall be continued as 

follows: (1) the deadline to meet and confer regarding initial disclosures, early settlement, ADR 

process selection, and a discovery plan shall be moved from August 3, 2017 to September 21, 

2017; (2) the deadline to file ADR certification and stipulation to ADR or notice of need for a 

phone conference shall be moved from August 3, 2017 to September 21, 2017; (3) the deadline to 

file Rule 26(f) report shall be moved from August 17, 2017 to October 5, 2017; (4) the deadline 

to complete initial disclosures shall be moved from August 17, 2017 to October 5, 2017; and (5) 

the deadline to file the initial case management statement shall be moved from August 17, 2017 

to October 5, 2017. 

IT IS SO STIPULATED 

Dated: August 9, 2017 CARTER CARTER FRIES & GRUNSCHLAG 

By: /s/Michelle Q. Carter 

Michelle Carter 

Attorneys for Defendants 

Maniglia Landscape, Inc., Cohen Landscape Services, Inc., 

The Celtis Group, Inc., and Landscape Contractors Council 

of Northern California 

Dated: August 9, 2017 WEINBERG, ROGER & ROSENFELD 

By: /s/Concepción E. Lozano-Batista 

Concepción E. Lozano-Batista 

Attorneys for Defendants 

Oscar De La Torre, Doyle Radford, David Gorgas, Bruce 

Rust, Fernando Estrada, Bryon Loney, Robert Chrisp, Bill 

Koponen, Larry Nibbi and Manuel De Santiago 

Dated: August 9, 2017 McCRACKEN, STEMERMAN & HOLSBERRY LLP 

By: /s/ Yonina Alexander 

Yonina Alexander 

Attorneys for Plaintiffs 

United Association of Journeyman and Apprentices of the 

Plumbing and Pipe Fitting Industry Underground 

Utility/Landscape Local Union No. 355, Miguel Iniguez and 

Felipe Hernandez as Local 355 Trustees, Francisco Cruz 

Ortiz, and Alejandro Trejo 

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STIPULATION TO EXTEND TIME AND 

CONTINUE CMC AND RELATED DATES 4 Case No.: 3:17-cv-03037-RS 

 PURSUANT TO STIPULATION, IT IS SO ORDERED. 

Dated: August , 2017 

 Hon. Richard Seeborg 

 U.S. District Judge, Northern District of California 

 

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STIPULATION TO EXTEND TIME AND 

CONTINUE CMC AND RELATED DATES 5 Case No.: 3:17-cv-03037-RS 

DECLARATION OF MICHELLE CARTER IN SUPPORT OF STIPULATION

I, MICHELLE CARTER, do hereby declare: 

1. I am an attorney at law, duly licensed to practice before the United States District 

Court for the Northern District of California; I represent the Contractor Defendants in the aboveentitled action. I make this declaration based on my own knowledge. 

2. All Defendants have moved to dismiss the first amended complaint in this action (the 

Dismissal Motions), which are currently set to be heard on September 14, 2017. Plaintiffs’ 

response to the Contractor Defendants’ Motion is currently due on August 11, and their response 

to the Laborers Trustee Defendants’ Motion is currently due on August 17, 2017. 

3. Because both Dismissal Motions were filed in close proximity, and make different 

arguments, the parties believe that an extension of time to August 24, 2017 for Plaintiffs to 

respond to the Dismissal Motions would be in the interests of justice and judicial economy. 

4. Extending the Plaintiffs’ deadline to respond to the Dismissal Motions will not alter the 

hearing date on the Dismissal Motions, but would extend the deadline for all Defendants to file 

any replies in support of the Dismissal Motions from August 18, 2017 (Contractor Defendants) 

and August 24, 2017 (Laborers Trustee Defendants) to August 31, 2017. 

5. Since the granting of some or all of the Dismissal Motions could dispose of the entire 

action or remove some Defendants from the litigation, the parties do not want to spend time and 

money engaging in potentially unnecessary litigation-related activities such as ADR selection, 

discovery plans, initial disclosures, and preparation of a case management statement while the 

status of the case is uncertain; nor do they want to waste the Court’s time and resources 

unnecessarily. 

6. The Parties therefore believe that a continuance of the case management conference 

from August 24, 2017 to October 12, 2017, along with a corresponding extension of all related 

deadlines to a time after the Dismissal Motions have been heard, would be in the interests of 

justice and judicial economy. Allowing time for the Dismissal Motions to be heard and decided 

may streamline the litigation and avoid unnecessary work and/or multiple proceedings. 

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7. A continuance of the case management conference to October 12, 2017 would change 

the associated deadlines in the initial scheduling order as follows: (a) the deadline to meet and 

confer regarding initial disclosures, early settlement, ADR process selection, and a discovery plan 

would be moved from August 3, 2017 to September 21, 2017; (b) the deadline to file ADR 

certification and stipulation to ADR or notice of need for a phone conference would be moved 

from August 3, 2017 to September 21, 2017; (c) the deadline to file Rule 26(f) report would be 

moved from August 17, 2017 to October 5, 2017; (d) the deadline to complete initial disclosures 

would be moved from August 17, 2017 to October 5, 2017; and (e) the deadline to file the initial 

case management statement would be moved from August 17, 2017 to October 5, 2017 

8. The only prior extension in the case to date was a stipulated extension of the deadline 

for Contractor Defendants to respond the first amended complaint from July 5, 2017 to July 28, 

2017. 

9. I have spoken with counsel for the Plaintiffs and for the Laborers Trustee Defendants, 

and all Parties agree and support the requested scheduling changes. 

I declare under penalty of perjury under the laws of the State of California and the United 

States that the foregoing is true and correct, and that this Declaration was executed on August 9, 

2017 at San Francisco, California. 

 /s/Michelle Q. Carter 

Michelle Carter 

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STIPULATION TO EXTEND TIME AND 

CONTINUE CMC AND RELATED DATES 7 Case No.: 3:17-cv-03037-RS 

ATTESTATION OF SIGNATURES 

Pursuant to Local Civil Rule 5-1(i), I hereby attest that I have obtained concurrence in the 

filing of this document from each of the Signatories. 

By: /s/Michelle Q. Carter 

Michelle Carter 

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