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Nature of Suit Code: 110
Nature of Suit: Insurance
Cause of Action: 28:1332 Diversity-Injunctive &amp; Declaratory Relief

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STIPULATION OF DISMISSAL 

Case No. 3:14-cv-04492-LB (KW) 

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B. Douglas Robbins (219413) 

WOOD ROBBINS, LLP 

One Post Street, Suite 800 

San Francisco, CA 94104 

T: 415.247.7900 

F: 415.247.7901 

drobbins@woodrobbins.com 

Attorneys for Plaintiff 

KATHLEEN E. KOTTOM 

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 

FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 

 Plaintiff KATHLEEN KOTTOM individually and as trustee of the Paul and Kathleen 

Kottom Living Trust (collectively “Kottom”) and Defendant ALBERT DAN WALKER (“Walker”) 

(collectively, “the Parties”), by and through their undersigned counsel of record, state as follows: 

 WHEREAS, Plaintiff Kottom sued Walker in a civil action styled, Kottom v. Walker, No. 

3:14-cv-04492 LB (KW) (N.D. Cal, filed Oct. 7, 2014) (the “Action”), alleging that under the 

Nature’s World’s Operating Agreement, Walker failed to pay $1,000,000 to Kottom in exchange for 

her 50% interest in Nature’s World; that Walker breached his fiduciary duties to Kottom by slowing 

and blocking the sale of Nature’s World to third parties; and that Walker engaged in corporate waste 

and other related torts; 

 WHEREAS, Walker denies the allegations in the Action, and denies any other allegations of 

wrongdoing; 

KATHLEEN E. KOTTOM, individually, and as 

surviving trustee of the Paul and Kathleen 

Kottom Living Trust, 

 Plaintiff, 

 v. 

ALBERT DAN WALKER, an individual; and 

FARMERS NEW WORLD LIFE INSURANCE 

COMPANY, a Company; 

 Defendants. 

Case No.: 3:14-cv-04492 LB (KW) 

JOINT STIPULATION OF DISMISSAL 

WITH PREJUDICE 

Ct. Rm: 15th Floor, Room C 

Judge: Laurel Beeler 

: ORDER

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STIPULATION OF DISMISSAL 

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WHEREAS, on March 24, 2016, the Parties resolved their dispute through a mutually 

agreeable Settlement and Release Agreement Between Kathleen Kottom, Albert Dan Walker, 

Nature’s World, L.L.C., and the Paul and Kathleen Kottom Living Trust (“Settlement Agreement”)

and Assignment of Membership Interest of Nature’s World, L.L.C.; 

NOW, THEREFORE, the Parties agree and stipulate as follows: 

1. Pursuant to the express terms of the Parties’ Settlement Agreement, the Parties jointly 

stipulate to the dismissal of this Action with prejudice. 

2. The Parties agree that Judge Laurel Beeler of the United States District Court for the 

Northern District of California (or another judge in the same Court, should Judge Beeler be 

unavailable) shall maintain jurisdiction to enforce the Settlement Agreement. No other court, except 

the federal court in the Northern District of California, located in San Francisco, California, and its 

courts of appeal, has authority to adjudicate any controversy over the Parties’ Settlement Agreement 

or any other subsequent controversy between and among the Parties regarding Nature’s World, 

L.L.C., as reflected in the Settlement Agreement and the transcript of proceedings held on March 24, 

2016. 

3. Each Party shall bear his or her own attorneys’ fees and costs.

Each undersigned representative of the Parties certifies that he or she is fully authorized to 

enter into and execute the terms and conditions of this Joint Stipulation of Dismissal. 

IT IS SO ORDERED this ______ day of ________________, 2016. 

 By: 

 Honorable Laurel Beeler 

 Magistrate Judge 

United States District Court 

Northern District Of California 

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18th April

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