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Nature of Suit Code: 893
Nature of Suit: Environmental Matters
Cause of Action: 42:6901 Environmental Cleanup Expenses

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Stipulated Request to Vacate and Continue 

Pretrial Conference Case No. C 06-02560 JSW WDB 

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JEFFREY K. LEE (BAR NO. 212465) 

WILLIAM D. CONNELL (BAR NO. 89124) 

GCA LAW PARTNERS LLP 

1891 Landings Drive 

Mountain View, CA 94043 

Telephone: (650) 428-3900 

Facsimile: (650) 428-3901 

Email: jlee@gcalaw.com 

Email: bconnell@gcalaw.com 

Additional counsel of record listed below 

Attorneys for Plaintiffs HUMBOLDT BAYKEEPER and ECOLOGICAL RIGHTS FOUNDATION 

LAWRENCE BAZEL (SBN 114641) 

MELANIE TANG (SBN 221264) 

BRISCOE IVESTER & BAZEL LLP 

155 Sansome Street, 7th Floor 

San Francisco, CA 94104 

Email: lbazel@briscoelaw.net 

Attorneys for Defendants CUE VI, LLC and UNION PACIFIC RAILROAD COMPANY 

CHRISTOPHER NEARY (SBN 69220) 

110 So. Main Street, #C 

Willits, CA 95490 

Email: cjneary@pacific.net 

Attorney for Defendant NORTH COAST RAILROAD AUTHORITY 

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 

HUMBOLDT BAYKEEPER, a program of 

Ecological Rights Foundation, and 

ECOLOGICAL RIGHTS FOUNDATION, a 

non-profit corporation, 

 Plaintiffs, 

 v. 

UNION PACIFIC RAILROAD COMPANY, a 

Delaware corporation, NORTH COAST 

RAILROAD AUTHORITY, a state agency, 

and CUE VI, LLC, an Alaska limited liability 

company, 

 Defendants. 

Civil Case No.: C 06-02560 JSW WDB 

STIPULATED REQUEST TO VACATE 

AND CONTINUE PRETRIAL 

CONFERENCE AND ASSOCIATED 

DATES; [PROPOSED] ORDER 

 

Pretrial Conf.: August 18, 2008 

Time: 2:00 p.m. 

Place: Courtroom 2 

Judge: Honorable Jeffrey S. White

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Stipulated Request to Vacate and Continue 

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Plaintiffs Humboldt Baykeeper and Ecological Rights Foundation and Defendants Union 

Pacific Railroad Company, CUE VI, LLC, and North Coast Railroad Authority (collectively, the 

“Parties”) file this motion to bring to the Court’s attention a scheduling problem. The Court’s 

Guidelines for Trial and Final Pretrial Conference in Civil Bench Cases requires the parties to serve 

motions in limine by July 21, 2008, serve oppositions to those motions by July 29, and by August 4 

file a joint pretrial statement and other documents. However, until the Parties receive the Court’s 

ruling on the pending cross-motions for summary judgment, directed to all counts of Plaintiffs’ Third 

Amended Complaint, the Parties cannot know the issues that the Court’s ruling may eliminate for 

trial, and cannot prepare documents responsive to the Court’s ruling. Submission of pretrial 

documents prior to the Court’s ruling is likely to be unnecessarily voluminous and may address 

issues disposed of by the Court’s ruling. The Parties are thus in need of the Court’s ruling on the 

cross-motions to prepare for trial. 

Therefore, pursuant to Civil Local Rules 6-1(b) and 6-2, and this Court’s Civil Standing 

Order, ¶ 3, the Parties in the above-captioned case hereby stipulate and jointly request that this Court 

issue an order vacating and continuing the August 18, 2008 Pretrial Conference and associated 

deadlines. 

Defendants request that the Court continue the Pretrial Conference until September 2, 2008 

and oppose continuation of the September 15, 2008 Trial date. 

Plaintiffs request that the Court continue the Pretrial Conference until a reasonable time after 

the Court issues its decision on the Parties’ pending motions for summary judgment and set a Case 

Management Conference for August 18, 2008, or for 10 days after the Court rules on the Parties’ 

respective motions for summary judgment, whichever is sooner, for the purpose of resetting dates 

and, as necessary, to clarify issues to be tried. 

The parties jointly declare the following in support of this request: 

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WHEREAS, the Court’s October 15, 2007 Scheduling Order set a Pretrial Conference for 

August 18, 2008 and a bench Trial date of September 15, 2008; and 

WHEREAS, commencing on July 21, 2008 and prior to the August 18, 2008 Pretrial 

Conference, the parties must, inter alia, exchange, oppose and file their motions in limine for the 

Court’s decision, submit a Final Pretrial Order for the Court’s review, confer regarding trial exhibits 

and evidence issues, and file for the Court’s review their respective Proposed Findings of Fact and 

Conclusions of Law with separate Trial Briefs; and 

WHEREAS, the Court heard arguments on June 13, 2008 and presently has under submission 

Plaintiffs’ and Defendants’ respective motions for summary judgment on all three counts of 

Plaintiffs’ Third Amended Complaint; 

WHEREAS, the Court’s rulings on these pending summary judgment motions may moot 

and/or narrow claims, issues, evidence, and disputes for trial; and, 

WHEREAS, consequently, the Court’s rulings on the pending summary judgment motions 

may significantly modify the scope, volume, and content of the parties’ respective Pretrial 

Conference filings and motions, as identified above, due to be considered and decided by the Court; 

and 

 WHEREAS, the Parties believe that it would best serve judicial economy for this Court to 

issue the requested Order; and 

WHEREAS, the Parties have conferred and determined that the requested Order would be in 

the agreed best interests of the Parties and have a beneficial effect on the narrowing of issues and the 

efficient trial of this case; and 

WHEREAS, the Parties reserve their respective rights to move to limit, exclude and 

otherwise object to evidence and to withdraw, modify, and otherwise address such existing motions 

and objections as warranted by any orders of this Court; and 

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 WHEREAS, the Parties have sought three previous modifications to the deadlines in this 

case and the Court upon its own motion has modified the deadlines twice, including continuing the 

hearing date for the Parties’ summary judgment motions to June 13, 2008; 

WHEREFORE Plaintiffs and Defendants hereby jointly request that the Court issue an order 

vacating and continuing the August 18, 2008 Pretrial Conference and associated deadlines. 

Defendants request that the Court continue the Pretrial Conference until September 2, 2008 

and oppose continuation of the September 15, 2008 Trial date. 

Plaintiffs request that the Court continue the Pretrial Conference until a reasonable time after 

the Court issues its decision on the Parties’ pending motions for summary judgment and set a Case 

Management Conference for August 18, 2008, or for 10 days after the Court rules on the Parties’ 

respective motions for summary judgment, whichever is sooner, for the purpose of resetting dates 

and, as necessary, to clarify issues to be tried. 

Dated: July 16, 2008 Respectfully submitted, 

JEFFREY K. LEE, CA Bar No. 212465 

WILLIAM D. CONNELL, CA Bar No. 160729 

GCA LAW PARTNERS LLP 

1891 Landings Drive 

Mountain View, CA 94043 

Phone No.: (650) 428-3900 

Fax No.: (650) 428-3901 

Email: jlee@gcalaw.com 

Email: bconnell@gcalaw.com 

By: /s/ Jeffrey K. Lee .

Layne Friedrich (Bar No. 195431) 

Daniel Cooper (Bar No. 153576) 

Drevet Hunt (Bar No. 240487) 

Lawyers for Clean Water, Inc. 

1004 O’Reilly Avenue 

San Francisco, California 94129 

Telephone: (415) 440-6520 

Facsimile: (415) 440-4155 

Email: layne@lawyersforcleanwater.com 

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Michelle Smith (Bar No. 233515) 

Humboldt Baykeeper 

217 E Street 

Eureka, CA 95501 

Telephone: (707) 268-0665 

Facsimile: (707) 268-8901 

Email: michelle@humboldtbaykeeper.org 

Fredric Evenson (Bar No. 198059) 

Law Offices of Fredric Evenson 

William Verick (Bar No. 140972) 

Klamath Environmental Law Center 

424 First Street 

Eureka, CA 95501 

Telephone: (707) 268-8900 

Facsimile: (707) 268-8901 

Email: ecorights@earthlink.net 

Attorneys for Plaintiffs 

HUMBOLDT BAYKEEPER and ECOLOGICAL 

RIGHTS FOUNDATION 

Dated: July 16, 2008 LAWRENCE BAZEL, ESQ. 

MELANIE TANG, ESQ. 

BRISCOE IVESTER & BAZEL LLP 

155 Sansome Street, 7th Floor 

San Francisco, CA 94104 

Email: lbazel@briscoelaw.net 

Email: mtang@briscoelaw.net 

By: /s/ Lawrence Bazel (by permission) . 

Attorneys for Defendants 

UNION PACIFIC RAILROAD COMPANY and 

CUE VI, LLC 

Dated: July 17, 2008 CHRISTOPHER NEARY, ESQ. 

110 So. Main Street, #C 

Willits, CA 95490 

Email: cjneary@pacific.net 

By: /s/ Christopher Neary (by permission) .

Attorney for Defendant 

NORTH COAST RAILROAD AUTHORITY 

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ATTESTATION

 I, Jeffrey K. Lee, am counsel for Plaintiffs and the registered ECF user whose username and 

password are being used to file this Stipulated Request to Vacate and Continue Pretrial Conference 

and Associated Dates and [Proposed] Order. In compliance with General Order 45 X.B, I hereby 

attest that the above-identified counsel for Defendants concurred in this filing. 

Dated: July 17, 2008 Respectfully submitted, 

By: /s/ Jeffrey K. Lee .

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[PROPOSED] ORDER

After consideration of the Parties’ Stipulated Request to Vacate and Continue Pretrial 

Conference and Associated Dates and for good cause appearing: 

PURSUANT TO STIPULATION, IT IS SO ORDERED that the Court (1) vacates and 

continues the August 18, 2008 Pretrial Conference and associated deadlines; (2) resets the Pretrial 

Conference for __________________________ at ___ a.m./p.m. 

Dated: ______________, 2008 

____________________________________ 

JEFFREY S. WHITE 

 UNITED STATES DISTRICT JUDGE 

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and vacated the trial date. The 

Court will reset these dates, if necessary, in its order resoloving the parties' cross-motions for 

summary judgment.

July 18

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