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Nature of Suit Code: 440
Nature of Suit: Other Civil Rights
Cause of Action: 28:1441 Petition for Removal- Civil Rights Act

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OFFICE OF 

DENNIS 

CUNNINGHAM

San Francisco, Ca 

DENNIS CUNNINGHAM, State Bar #112910 

115 1⁄2 Bartlett Street 

San Francisco, CA 94110 

Tel: (415) 285-8091 

Fax: (415) 285-8092 

denniscunningham@juno.com 

Attorneys for Plaintiff 

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

J. HADLEY LOUDEN, 

 Plaintiff, 

 v. 

DEAN SORGIE and The CITY AND 

COUNTY OF SAN FRANCISCO, et al., 

 Defendants. 

Case No. C-06-4672 

STIPULATED REQUEST 

FOR CONTINUANCE OF MEDIATION 

DEADLINE; [PROPOSED] ORDER 

 

 The parties, by their undersigned attorneys, respectfully request that the Court grant a 

futher short continuance of the deadline for completion of the mediation in this case. The 

continuance is necessitated by the delay the parties experienced in obtaining x-rays from a third 

party hospital, as well as the opinions of their respective medical experts. The parties attempted 

to reschedule the mediation for late February, but were unable to find a date that worked for all 

parties and the mediator. 

 As previously reported to the Court, a mediation session was held with Stephen A. 

Schirle on August 9, 2007. At such mediation, Plaintiff expressed concern that the physical 

injury, which he alleges was the result of what he claims was excessive force used against him 

by defendant SFPD officers, in an incident in at the Carnaval festival in San Francisco in May, 

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OFFICE OF 

DENNIS 

CUNNINGHAM

San Francisco, Ca 

2005, was not yet fully diagnosed --- and thus his prognosis was uncertain. 

 The plaintiff sought further medical attention since, at a clinic at Highland Hospital, in 

Oakland, in the effort to gain a reasonably certain prognosis. New x-rays were made, which 

have now been reviewed by the parties’ retained experts, who have provided updated opinions to 

the parties about Plaintiff's injury and prognosis. This process is now all but complete, and it 

remains only for the parties to schedule and conduct another session with the Mediator. 

Calendar conflicts between counsel and mediator precluded a late February mediation, but the 

parties are meeting and conferrin—and checking the calendars of their clients—re the scheduling 

of a second session sometime during March 2008. 

 As we previously reported, counsel believe there is the case may settle in a further 

mediation session, as soon as all concerned can agree on a mutually workable date. We 

propose—as the Court has already ordered—that, in the event the mediation is unsuccessful, the 

Defendants may reset the already fully-briefed Motion for Summary Adjudication for hearing on 

14 days' notice. Accordingly, the parties ask for an Order --- nunc pro tunc as of our previous 

deadline of February 8, 2008, which was missed, mea culpa because plaintiff’s counsel was 

diverted just then with an upcoming argument in the Court of Appeals, and an intense bout of 

late-blooming discovery in a case set for trial March 31, 2008 --- extending the time to complete 

the ADR process to April 15, 2008, or thereabouts. We will surely have it done by then. 

 IT IS SO STIPULATED: 

DENNIS CUNNINGHAM 

DATED: February 18, 2008 

By: s/ - Dennis Cunningham

DENNIS CUNNINGHAM 

Attorney for Plaintiff 

DENNIS J. HERERRA 

City Attorney of San Francisco 

By s/ - Kimberly Bliss

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OFFICE OF 

DENNIS 

CUNNINGHAM

San Francisco, Ca 

KIMBERLY BLISS, D.C.A. 

ORDER

GOOD CAUSE appearing from the foregoing Stipulation, it is HEREBY ORDERED that 

the deadline to conduct a mediation in this case is continued to April 15, 2008. In the event that 

a further mediation does not resolve this case, defendants may reset the already-briefed Motion 

for Summary Adjudication by obtaining a motion hearing date from the Court's calendar clerk 

and filing a notice resetting the motion at least 14 days in advance of the hearing.

IT IS SO ORDERED. 

Dated: 

 THE HONORABLE MARILYN HALL PATEL 

UNITED STATES DISTRICT JUDGE 

2/21/2008

U

NITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

IT IS SO ORDERED

Judge Marilyn H. Patel

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