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Nature of Suit Code: 430
Nature of Suit: Banks and Banking
Cause of Action: 28:1441 Petition for Removal

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Stipulation and Proposed Order Clarifying Briefing Schedule and Extending Case Management Deadlines

BILL LOCKYER

Attorney General of the State of California

ALBERT NORMAN SHELDEN

Senior Assistant Attorney General

MARGARET REITER

Supervising Deputy Attorney General

SETH E. MERMIN (SBN 189194)

PAUL STEIN (SBN 184956)

Deputy Attorneys General

 455 Golden Gate Avenue, Suite 11000

 San Francisco, CA 94102-7004

 Telephone: (415) 703-5601

 Fax: (415) 703-5480

Attorneys for Plaintiff

PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF

CALIFORNIA,

Plaintiff,

v.

H&R BLOCK, INC., a foreign corporation; H&R

BLOCK SERVICES, INC., a foreign corporation;

H&R BLOCK ENTERPRISES, INC., a foreign

corporation; H&R BLOCK TAX SERVICES, INC.,

a foreign corporation; BLOCK FINANCIAL

CORPORATION, a foreign corporation; HRB

ROYALTY, INC., a foreign corporation; and

DOES 1 through 50, inclusive,

Defendants.

CASE NO. C 06 2058 SC

STIPULATION AND

[PROPOSED] ORDER

EXTENDING CASE

MANAGEMENT DEADLINES

AND CLARIFYING

BRIEFING SCHEDULE ON

PLAINTIFF’S MOTION TO

REMAND

(San Francisco Superior Court

Case No. CGC-06-449461)

THE PARTIES HERETO, BY AND THROUGH THEIR UNDERSIGNED COUNSEL,

HEREBY STIPULATE AND AGREE AS FOLLOWS:

WHEREAS on May 16, 2006, Plaintiff filed a motion to remand this action to state

court (“Remand Motion”), and Defendant H&R Block Enterprises, Inc. filed a motion to join

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Stipulation and Proposed Order Clarifying Briefing Schedule and Extending Case Management Deadlines

HSBC Bank USA, N.A. as a defendant (“Joinder Motion”); 

WHEREAS on June 26, 2006, the Court issued an Order setting both the Remand

Motion and the Joinder Motion for hearing on September 8, 2006;

WHEREAS the June 26, 2006, Order set a briefing schedule on the Joinder Motion,

with Plaintiff’s opposition due August 11, 2006, and Defendant’s reply due August 25, 2006;

WHEREAS the June 26, 2006, Order does not expressly set a briefing schedule on the

Remand Motion, but the parties believe the Court established a simultaneous briefing schedule

for the Remand Motion and the Joinder Motion;

WHEREAS under this Court’s case management Order issued March 17, 2006 (“Case

Management Order”), the last day to meet and confer regarding initial disclosures, early

settlement, ADR process selection, and discovery plan, and to file a Joint ADR Certification or

Notice of Need for ADR Phone Conference, is July 7, 2006;

WHEREAS under the Case Management Order the last day to complete initial

disclosures, file Case Management Statement, and file and serve a Rule 26(f) Report is July 21,

2006; 

WHEREAS under the Case Management Order a case management conference in this

action has been set for July 28, 2006;

WHEREAS the parties have stipulated, in order to remove any ambiguity in the

Court’s June 26, 2006 Order, that Defendants’ opposition to the Remand Motion should be filed

no later than August 11, 2006, and that Plaintiff’s reply in support of the Remand Motion should

be filed no later than August 25, 2006;

 WHEREAS the parties have stipulated that the deadlines established by the March 17,

2006, Case Management Order should be adjusted in light of the briefing and hearing schedule

on the Remand Motion;

WHEREAS The parties have stipulated that the deadlines in the March 17, 2006, Case

Management Order should be extended as follows:

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Stipulation and Proposed Order Clarifying Briefing Schedule and Extending Case Management Deadlines

October 27, 2006 Last day to:

• meet and confer re: initial disclosures, early settlement,

ADR process selection, and discovery plan

• file joint ADR Certification with Stipulation to ADR

Process or Notice of Need for ADR Phone Conference

November 10, 2006 Last day to complete initial disclosures or state objection in

Rule 26(f) Report, file Case Management Statement, and

file/service Rule 26(f) Report

November 17, 2006 Case Management Conference (CMC) in Courtroom 1, 17th

Floor, San Francisco at 10:00 a.m.

WHEREAS the parties have stipulated that by agreeing to modify the deadlines set

by the Case Management Order, Plaintiff has no intention of waiving and has not waived its

objections to this Court’s exercise of federal subject matter jurisdiction in this action; 

NOW THEREFORE, IT IS HEREBY STIPULATED AND AGREED that the briefing

schedule on the Remand Motion should be clarified as set forth above, and the deadlines set

forth in the March 17, 2006, Case Management Order should be extended as set forth above.

Dated: June 30, 2006 OFFICE OF THE ATTORNEY GENERAL 

OF CALIFORNIA

By: /s/ Paul Stein

SETH E. MERMIN

PAUL STEIN

Counsel for Plaintiff,

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE 

OF CALIFORNIA

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Stipulation and Proposed Order Clarifying Briefing Schedule and Extending Case Management Deadlines

DATED: June 30, 2006 MUNGER, TOLLES & OLSON, LLP

By: /s/ Genevieve Cox

JEFFREY L. BLEICH (SBN 144340)

GENEVIEVE COX (SBN 229496)

DANIEL J. POWELL (SBN 230304)

AMY C. TOVAR (SBN 230370)

Counsel for Defendants,

H&R BLOCK, INC., 

H&R BLOCK SERVICES, INC., 

H&R BLOCK ENTERPRISES, INC., 

H&R BLOCK TAX SERVICES, INC., 

BLOCK FINANCIAL CORPORATION, 

HRB ROYALTY, INC.

Other Signatories: Genevieve Cox

Signature Attestation: I, Paul Stein, attest that Genevieve Cox has signed the original of this

stipulation and that she concurs in the filing thereof.

PURSUANT TO STIPULATION, IT IS SO ORDERED.

DATED:_________________

 HONORABLE SAMUEL CONTI

 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

7/6/06

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORN

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IT IS SO ORDERED

Judge Samuel Conti

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