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Nature of Suit Code: 442
Nature of Suit: Civil Rights Employment
Cause of Action: 42:2000e Job Discrimination (Employment)

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Stip. to Extend ENE Deadline and Proposed Order 

CASE NO. C10-0752PJH

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DENNIS J. HERRERA, State Bar #139669

City Attorney 

ELIZABETH S. SALVESON, State Bar #83788

Chief Labor Attorney 

JONATHAN C. ROLNICK, State Bar #151814 

LAUREN M. MONSON, State Bar #242819

Deputy City Attorney 

Fox Plaza 

1390 Market Street, 5th Floor 

San Francisco, California 94102-5408 

Telephone: (415)554-3856 

Facsimile: (415)554-4248 

E-Mail: lauren.monson@sfgov.org 

Attorneys for Defendant 

CITY AND COUNTY OF SAN FRANCISCO 

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 

SHANIA RAMAN, 

 Plaintiff, 

 vs. 

THE CITY AND COUNTY OF SAN 

FRANCISCO, a municipality and political 

subdivision of the State of California, and 

BRYAN THOMASSON, an individual, 

 Defendant(s). 

Case No. C10-0752PJH

STIPULATION TO EXTEND ENE DEADLINE 

AND PROPOSED ORDER 

Trial Date: October 24, 2011 

PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that Defendant City and County of San Francisco ("Defendant") 

respectfully files this request for an extension of the deadline to complete an early neutral evaluation 

("ENE") in this matter. Defendant, in stipulation with Plaintiff and Defendant Thomasson, request that 

the ENE deadline be continued 120 days to December 28, 2010. 

A case management conference was held on May 27, 2010. On June 1, 2010 the court issued 

the Case Management and Pretrial Order, referring the case to ADR for ENE to be completed within 

90 days. The 90 days expires on August 30, 2010. 

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ENE evaluator, George Harris, was appointed by the ADR clerk on July 19. (See Docket No. 

129.) The evaluator contacted the parties on August 3 and scheduled a phone conference for August 6. 

On August 6 the phone conference was not able to take place due to unavailability of Plaintiffs' 

counsel. The phone conference was subsequently rescheduled to August 13. 

Given the parties' and evaluator's schedules, the parties are unable to complete ENE prior to 

August 30. Moreover, at this point there has been limited discovery in this case. Other than initial 

disclosures, the only discovery includes requests for production noticed by Defendant City and several 

subpoenas for records noticed by Defendant Thomasson. A response to either is yet to be received. 

The parties believe additional discovery is necessary to make the ENE a productive process. In 

addition, Defendant City's counsel is unavailable and out of the country the first three weeks of 

October, the ENE evaluator is unavailable the last week of October and first three weeks of November 

due to an arbitration in Singapore, and Defendant City's counsel is scheduled for a two week trial 

November 29. 

For the above reasons, Defendant City, Defendant Thomasson and Plaintiff request a 120 day 

extension of the ENE deadline to December 28, 2010. All parties are in agreement with this request 

and their stipulation is below: 

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IT IS STIPULATED BY THE PARTIES AS FOLLOWS: 

1) The parties desire to engage in further discovery before completing the ENE. 

2) According to the above, the parties stipulate to extend the ENE deadline 120 days to 

December 28, 2010. 

3) This agreement between the parties will require no other modification of the scheduling 

order. 

4) The parties request that the Court enter an order consistent with this stipulation. 

Dated: August 13, 2010 

By: /s/ Lauren M. Monson 

LAUREN M. MONSON 

Attorneys for Defendant 

CITY AND COUNTY FOR SAN FRANCISCO 

Dated: August 13, 2010 

By: /s/ Geoffrey Gordon-Creed 

Geoffrey Gordon-Creed 

Attorney for Defendant BRYAN THOMASSON 

Dated: August 13, 2010 

By: /s/ Evgenii Sverdlov 

EVGENII SVERDLOV, ESQ. 

Attorney for Plaintiff SHANIA RAMAN 

 PURSUANT TO STIPULATION, IT IS SO ORDERED: 

Dated: 

 

THE HONORABLE PHYLLIS J. HAMILTON 

U.S. DISTRICT COURT JUDGE 

8/17/10

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORN

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IT IS SO ORDERED

Judge Phyllis J. Hamilton

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