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Nature of Suit Code: 446
Nature of Suit: Americans with Disabilities Act - Other
Cause of Action: 42:12101 Americans w/ Disabilities Act (ADA)

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Jamerson C. Allen (State Bar No. 132866)

Cara Ching~Senahi! (State Bar No. 209467)

JACKSON LEW is LLP

199 Fremont Street, i Oth Floor

San Francisco, California 94105

Telephone: (415) 394-9400

Facsimile: (415) 394-9401

E-mail: alJeni(w.iacksonJewis.com

E-mail: ching-senahacú.iacksonlewis.com

Attorneys for Detèndant

GENERAL GROWTH PROPERTIES, INC.

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Michael J. Chileen, Esq.

Greenberg Traurig, LLP

3161 Michelson Drive, Suite 1000

Irvine, CA 92612

Tel: 949-732-6614

Fax: 949-732-6501

Email: HurleyG~gtlaw.c0J11

EinaÎl: ChileenMCagtlaw.com

Attorneys for Defendant

REAL MEX RESTAURANTS, INC.

Sidney J. Cohen (State Bar No. 39023)

SIDNEY J, COHEN PROFESSIONAL CORPORATION

427 Grand A venue

Oakland, CA 946 i 0

TeL. (510) 893~6682

Attorneys for Plaintiff

RICHA SKAFF

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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

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RICHAR SKAFF, Case No. C09-055 1 8 JSW

STIPULATION; DECLARATION;

(PROPOSED) ORDER FOR

ENLARGEMENT OF TIME TO

SCHEDULE AND lllARTICIPATE IN

MEDIATION

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REAL MEX RESTAURANTS, INC.;

GENERAL GROWTH PROPERTIES, INC.

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Defendants.

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STU'ULA TION

2 Defendants REAL MEX RESTAURANTS, INC. and GENERAL GROWTH

3 PROPERTIES, INC., and Plaintiff RICHARD SKAFF (collectivdy "Parties"), by and through

4 their attorneys of record, hereby stipulate to an extension oftiine. from August 9, 2010 to October

5 6~ 2010, by which to schedule and paricipate ín medIatIon pursuant to the Court's Scheduling

6 Order and General Ord~r 56.

7 Plaintiff and Defendant GENERAL GROWTH PROPERTIES, ING. ("'GGP") further

8 stipulate that GGP will provide a written response to each item in Plajntifts expert's report two (2)

9 weeks prior to the date of the scheduled mediation. Said writtn response will specifY: (1) whether

10 OOP is wiling to undertake the corrective action proposed by Plaintift~ or has an alternate

11 proposal; (2) the factual basis for any clainl GGP may make that Plaintiffs proposed corrective

12 action is not readily achievable; and (3) information in GGP's possession or control regarding the

13 construction or alteratíon history of the property if GGP intends to dispute liabilty based on the

14 construction or alteration history of the property, consistent with and to the extent required under

15 General Order 56.

16 The PartIes further stipulate that this Stipulation may be signed in counterparts and that

17 facsimile or electronically transmitted signatures shall be as valid and binding as original

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19 IT is SO AGREED AND STIPULATED.

20 Dated: August 4.2010

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JACKSON LEWIS LLP

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By: Is/ Card Chin¥~Senalw

Jamerson C. Atlen

Cara Ching~Senaha

Attúmeys tòr Defendant

General Growt Properties, Inc.

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PROFESSIONAL CORPORATION

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Sidney J. Cohen

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Richard Skaff

GREENBERG TRAURIG

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Gregory Hurley

Michael J. ChiJleen

Attorneys tòr Defendant

Real Mex. Restaurants, Inc.

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DECLARATION OF CARA CHING-SENAHA

I, Cara Chirig-Senaha, hereby declare on the basis of personal knowledge:

1. 1 am an attorney with Jackson Lewis LLP, counsel of record for Defendant

General Growth Properties, Inc. ("GOP") in thIs action. I am an attorney in good standing and

licensed to practice in the courts of California, in the United States District Court for the

Northern, Eastern, and Central Districts, and in the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth

Circuit If called upon to testify, I would testify as follows.

2. All Pa.ties though theIr counsel have jointly agreed to exrend the time to

participate in mediation, to no later than October 6, 2010, based on the following:

a. Plaintiffs report is over 100 pages long and Itemized over 200 claimed

eleinents or allegt:d barriers to access covering almost the entire common area

property that consists of Stonestown Galleria;

b. It has taken Defendant General Growth Propertit:s a significant amount of

time to evaluate whether there are readily achievable alternatives to the claimed

~lements in Plaintiffs report which has included the retention of multiple experts

to provide cost estimates and evaluate Plaintiffs proposed changes and whetht:l'

readily achit:vable alternative means exist to remove the alleged barrìers;

c. It took General Growth Properties some time to identify and then i'etain an

expert to provide cost estimates for remedyIng each of the claimed barrÎers

identified in the report. Defendant's experts now have been working diligently to

provide Defendant with cost estimates and, as may be necessary. potential readily

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achievable alternatives; and

2 d. Defendant anticipates this information will be completed in mid- to late3 September. which would enable the parties to meaningfully participate in

4 mediation by October 6, 2010.

5 1 declare under penalty of perjury under the laws of the United States of America that the

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7 Executed this 4th day of August, 2010 in San Francisco, California.

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Isl Care Chinv-Senaha

Cara ChIng~Senaha

12 Having considered the Parties' Stipulation and the supporting Declaration, and for good

13 cause shown, the Court hereby extends the date by which the paities must schedule and

14 paricipate in mediation from August 9.2010 to October 6, 20J O.

15 IT is SO ORDERED.

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17 Date: August _,2010

Jeffrey S, White

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