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Nature of Suit Code: 190
Nature of Suit: Other Contract Actions
Cause of Action: 28:1332 Diversity-Breach of Contract

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WILLIAM H. COLLIER, JR., CASB No. 97491 

william.collier@kyl.com

MOMO E. TAKAHASHI, CASB No. 238965 

momo.takahashi@kyl.com

KEESAL, YOUNG & LOGAN 

A Professional Corporation 

400 Oceangate, P.O. Box 1730 

Long Beach, California 90801-1730 

Telephone: (562) 436-2000 

Facsimile: (562) 436-7416 

Attorneys for Defendant 

BAKER HUGHES INCORPORATED 

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 

EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 

PETROMINERALS 

CORPORATION, A Delaware 

Corporation doing business in 

California; CALIFORNIA OIL 

INDEPENDENTS, INC., a 

California Corporation, 

Plaintiffs, 

vs. 

BAKER HUGHES 

INCORPORATED, a California 

Corporation and DOES 1 

through 50, Inclusive, 

Defendants. 

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Case No. 2:06-CV-2244 

STIPULATION FOR REMAND 

TO SUPERIOR COURT AND 

FOR FURTHER PROCEEDINGS 

THEREON; [PROPOSED] 

ORDER 

Plaintiffs PETROMINERALS CORPORATION and 

CALIFORNIA OIL INDEPENDENTS, INC. (“Plaintiffs”) and 

Defendant BAKER HUGHES INCORPORATED (“Defendant”), by 

and through their respective counsel of record, hereby submit the 

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following Stipulation for Remand to Superior Court and Further 

Proceedings Thereon: 

1. WHEREAS, Defendant’s counsel misconstrued 

information provided by the client in seeking removal of this action 

to the Court and consequently asserted existence of diversity 

jurisdiction where diversity does not in fact exist, and; 

2. WHEREAS, Defendant discovered its error and 

promptly apprised Plaintiffs’ counsel of its error in seeking 

removal of this action; and; 

3. WHEREAS, the parties now desire to seek remand of 

the case to the Superior Court for Kern County from which this 

case was erroneously removed; and 

4. NOW THEREFORE, the parties hereby stipulate to 

remand this matter to the Superior Court of California, County of 

Kern, as initially filed – i.e., Petrominerals Corporation, a Delaware 

corporation doing business in California; California Oil 

Independents, Inc., a California corporation v. Baker Hughes 

Incorporated, a Delaware corporation and DOES 1 through 50, 

inclusive, No. S-1500-CV 259006. The address of the courthouse 

from which this case was removed and to which it should be 

remanded is as follows: 

Kern County Superior Court 

1415 Truxtun Ave. 

Bakersfield, California 93301 

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5. The parties further stipulate that all pleadings filed 

in 

the Federal Eastern District Court be deemed filed in the Superior 

Court of California, County of Kern as well. 

IT IS SO STIPULATED. 

DATED: October 18, 2006 

/s/

WILLIAM H. COLLIER, JR. 

MOMO E. TAKAHASHI 

KEESAL, YOUNG & LOGAN 

Attorneys for Defendant 

BAKER HUGHES 

INCORPORATED 

DATED: October 18, 2006 /s/

GERALD M. LEVERETT 

Attorneys for Plaintiffs 

PETROMINERALS 

CORPORATION 

CALIFORNIA OIL 

INDEPENDENTS, INC. 

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Good cause appearing, IT IS HEREBY ORDERED that the 

case is hereby remanded to the Kern County Superior Court for 

further proceedings. 

DATED: October 18, 2006 

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