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Nature of Suit Code: 443
Nature of Suit: Civil Rights Accommodations
Cause of Action: 42:405 Fair Housing Act

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Murillo, et al. v. Cervantes, et al. – (Case no. C07-02199 MEJ) - ALL PLAINTIFFS AND DEFENDANTS FIRST FEDERAL 

MORTGAGE BANKERS, INC., RAM CAPITAL CORP. dba CITYWIDE PROPERTIES, BOBBY RAY LEE, FRANCISCO 

CERVANTES, TERESA DIAZ’S JOINT STIPULATION SEEKING RELIEF FROM 1/20/10 & 1/22/10 ORDERs RE; 

[PROPOSED] AMENDED ORDER 

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Heidi Li, Esq., SBN 202068 

Matthew J. Webb, SBN 148228 

The Law Offices of Matthew J. Webb 

409 – 13th Street, Tribune Tower, 17th Floor 

Oakland, CA 94612 

Telephone: (510) 444-4224 

Facsimile: (510) 444-4223 

Attorney for Plaintiffs 

Juan Murillo, Maria Murillo, Martha Jimenez, 

Amalia Rios and Maria Muñoz 

B. Edward McCutchan, Jr., Esq. (State Bar No. 119376) 

Michael Maloney, Esq. (State Bar No. 208297) 

SUNDERLAND & McCUTCHAN, LLP 

412 Aviation Boulevard, Suite D 

Santa Rosa, CA 95403 

Tel: (707) 284-5524 / Fax: (707) 284-5527

Attorney for Defendants 

Francisco Cervantes, Teresa Diaz, 

Bobby Ray Lee, RAM Capital Corporation 

dba Citywide Properties 

L. Jay Pedersen, Esq. (State Bar No. 127791) 

Jeffrey V. Ta, Esq. (State Bar No. 225188) 

BLEDSOE, CATHCART, DIESTEL, PEDERSEN & TREPPA LLP 

601 California Street, 16th Floor 

San Francisco, California 94608-2805 

Tel: (415) 981-5411 / Fax: (415) 981-0352 

Attorney for Defendant 

First Federal Mortgage Bankers, Inc. 

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 

JUAN MURILLO aka JUAN MANUEL 

MURILLO; MARIA MURILLO aka MARIA 

JUDITH MURILLO; MARTHA JIMENEZ; 

AMALIA RIOS aka AMALIA GALVAN RIOS; 

and MARIA MUÑOZ, 

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Case No: C07-02199 MEJ 

ALL PLAINTIFFS AND DEFENDANTS 

FIRST FEDERAL MORTGAGE BANKERS, 

INC., RAM CAPITAL CORP. dba 

CITYWIDE PROPERTIES, BOBBY RAY 

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Murillo, et al. v. Cervantes, et al. – (Case no. C07-02199 MEJ) - ALL PLAINTIFFS AND DEFENDANTS FIRST FEDERAL 

MORTGAGE BANKERS, INC., RAM CAPITAL CORP. dba CITYWIDE PROPERTIES, BOBBY RAY LEE, FRANCISCO 

CERVANTES, TERESA DIAZ’S JOINT STIPULATION SEEKING RELIEF FROM 1/20/10 & 1/22/10 ORDERs RE; 

[PROPOSED] AMENDED ORDER 

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 Plaintiffs, 

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FRANCISCO CERVANTES; TERESA DIAZ; 

BOBBY RAY LEE; FIRST FEDERAL 

MORTGAGE BANKERS, INC. dba CITYWIDE 

PROPERTIES dba CITYWIDE HOME LOANS 

dba RAM CAPITAL CORP.; HAROLD 

BLANCO; EAGLE LITERACY GROUP, INC.; 

NEW CENTURY MORTGAGE CORP.; WELLS 

FARGO BANK, NA.; CHASE HOME 

FINANCE, LLC, OCWEN LOAN SERVICING, 

LLC and DOES 1-100, 

 

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LEE, FRANCISCO CERVANTES, TERESA 

DIAZ’S JOINT STIPULATION SEEKING 

RELIEF FROM 1/20/10 & 1/22/10 ORDERS; 

[PROPOSED] AMENDED ORDER 

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The signatories below, who are parties to the above-entitled action, submit this Joint Stipulation 

Seeking Relief from the Order issued by the Court on January 22, 2010 requesting that the parties file a 

joint status report by January 27, 2010. 

The parties to this action and their attorneys of record who are the signatories below are 

specifically: 

Plaintiffs Juan Murillo, Maria Murillo, Martha Jimenez, Amalia Rios and Maria Muñoz 

(“Plaintiffs”) as represented by attorney Heidi M. Li and Matthew J. Webb of The Law Offices of 

Matthew J. Webb; and defendants Bobby Ray Lee, RAM Capital Corporation dba Citywide Properties, 

Francisco Cervantes, and Teresa Diaz as represented by attorneys B. Edward McCutchan, Jr. and 

Michael Maloney of Sunderland & McCutchan, LLP and defendant First Federal Mortgage Bankers, 

Inc. dba Citywide Home Loans as represented by attorneys L. Jay Pedersen and Jeffry Vi Ta of 

Bledsoe, Cathcart, et al., LLP. Collectively, the foregoing parties are referred to herein-below as “The 

Parties.” 

WHEREAS, on November 25, 2010, the parties hereto filed with this court a Joint Status 

Report requesting that they be allowed to file a follow-up Joint Status Report and an accompanying 

Stipulation and [Proposed] Amended Case Management Order on or before January 15, 2010 subject 

to the court’s ordered approval of said Joint Status Report. 

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Murillo, et al. v. Cervantes, et al. – (Case no. C07-02199 MEJ) - ALL PLAINTIFFS AND DEFENDANTS FIRST FEDERAL 

MORTGAGE BANKERS, INC., RAM CAPITAL CORP. dba CITYWIDE PROPERTIES, BOBBY RAY LEE, FRANCISCO 

CERVANTES, TERESA DIAZ’S JOINT STIPULATION SEEKING RELIEF FROM 1/20/10 & 1/22/10 ORDERs RE; 

[PROPOSED] AMENDED ORDER 

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WHEREAS, on December 2, 2010, this Court in response ordered and approved this November 

25, 2009 filing request by the parties. 

WHEREAS, on January 20, 2010, this Court issued an Order ordering the parties to file a Joint 

Status Report by January 27, 2010, including any request for a referral to Magistrate Judge Larson for 

a Settlement Conference. 

WHEREAS, on January 22, 2010, this Court issued a follow-up Order vacating all pretrial and 

trial deadlines and hearings, stating that, if necessary, after receipt of the parties’ next Joint Status 

Report, the Court shall schedule a case management conference for purposes of scheduling a trial and 

other case management deadlines. 

WHEREAS, since the August 2009, Settlement Conference hearing before Magistrate Judge 

Larson, the parties have been engaged in good faith settlement negotiations and further discovery in 

this proceeding but, to date, have not yet completed yet all needed discovery in this action nor 

achieved settlement among the remaining parties to this action. 

WHEREAS, the Parties through their respective counsel would like to proceed forward, at this 

time, with further needed discovery in this action and to engage also in continued good faith settlement 

negotiations but will require additional time to prepare and file an updated Joint Status Report and 

proposed Amended Case Management Scheduling Order. 

 WHEREAS, plaintiffs counsel in this action through filing of this Stipulation and also a 

separate concurrent filing of a Notice of Unavailability informs the remaining parties and this Court 

that said counsel will be unavailable from January 28, 2010 through February 8, 2010 and requests that 

any new Orders for attendance at hearings, depositions, mediations, settlement conference hearings, 

other proceedings and for any compliance with Orders issued by this Court including to file a Joint 

Status Report be required to take place after February 8, 2010. 

 WHEREAS, for the reasons stated above, the parties seeks an Order from this Court for relief 

from the current January 20 and 22, 2010 Orders and request that this Court grant the parties additional 

time up until February 15, 2010 to comply with the aforesaid Orders. 

 WHEREAS, the Court’s granting of this stipulated request from the parties is necessary 

presently in order to allow plaintiffs and all remaining defendants who have appeared in this 

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Murillo, et al. v. Cervantes, et al. – (Case no. C07-02199 MEJ) - ALL PLAINTIFFS AND DEFENDANTS FIRST FEDERAL 

MORTGAGE BANKERS, INC., RAM CAPITAL CORP. dba CITYWIDE PROPERTIES, BOBBY RAY LEE, FRANCISCO 

CERVANTES, TERESA DIAZ’S JOINT STIPULATION SEEKING RELIEF FROM 1/20/10 & 1/22/10 ORDERs RE; 

[PROPOSED] AMENDED ORDER 

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proceeding full and fair opportunity to jointly comply with ADR, and other joint Case Management 

Order requirements; and 

 WHEREAS, Good cause exists based on the reasons stated herein to approve this Stipulation. 

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Respectfully Submitted, 

 

Dated: January 27, 2010 THE LAW OFFICES OF MATTHEW J. WEBB 

 / S / 

Heidi Li 

 Attorneys for all Plaintiffs 

Dated: January 27, 2010 SUNDERLAND & McCUTCHAN 

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 B. Edward McCutchan, Jr., Esq. 

 Michael Maloney, Esq. 

 Attorneys for Defendants: BOBBY RAY LEE; 

RAM CAPITAL CORP. dba CITYWIDE PROPERTIES, 

FRANCISCO CERVANTES and TERESA DIAZ 

Dated: January 27, 2010 BLEDSOE, CATHCART, ET AL., TREPPA LLP 

________/ S / _____

 L. Jay Pedersen, Esq 

Jeffrey V. Ta, Esq. 

 Attorneys for Defendant 

FIRST FEDERAL MORTGAGE BANKERS, INC. dba 

CITYWIDE HOME LOANS 

 

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Murillo, et al. v. Cervantes, et al. – (Case no. C07-02199 MEJ) - ALL PLAINTIFFS AND DEFENDANTS FIRST FEDERAL 

MORTGAGE BANKERS, INC., RAM CAPITAL CORP. dba CITYWIDE PROPERTIES, BOBBY RAY LEE, FRANCISCO 

CERVANTES, TERESA DIAZ’S JOINT STIPULATION SEEKING RELIEF FROM 1/20/10 & 1/22/10 ORDERs RE; 

[PROPOSED] AMENDED ORDER 

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SIGNATURE ATTESTATION

 As the attorney efiling this document with the court, I hereby attest that I have on file all 

holograph signatures for any and all signatures indicated by a “conformed” signature (/S/) within this 

efiled document. 

Dated: January 27, 2010 THE LAW OFFICES OF MATTHEW J. WEBB 

 

By:_________________________ 

 / S / 

Heidi Li 

 Attorneys for Plaintiffs 

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Murillo, et al. v. Cervantes, et al. – (Case no. C07-02199 MEJ) - ALL PLAINTIFFS AND DEFENDANTS FIRST FEDERAL 

MORTGAGE BANKERS, INC., RAM CAPITAL CORP. dba CITYWIDE PROPERTIES, BOBBY RAY LEE, FRANCISCO 

CERVANTES, TERESA DIAZ’S JOINT STIPULATION SEEKING RELIEF FROM 1/20/10 & 1/22/10 ORDERs RE; 

[PROPOSED] AMENDED ORDER 

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ORDER

 The Court has reviewed the plaintiffs and defendants Bobby Ray Lee, RAM Capital 

Corporation dba Citywide Properties, Francisco Cervantes, and Teresa Diaz and First Federal 

Mortgage Bankers, Inc.’s Stipulation Seeking Relief from the court’s current Orders issued on January 

20 and 22, 2010; and [Proposed] Order, 

 PURSUANT TO STIPULATION, IT IS HEREBY ORDERED that the plaintiffs and 

defendants be granted relief from the court’s current January 20 and 22, 2010 Orders and the Court 

heretofore issues a new Order in this proceeding allowing the parties to this action additional time up 

until February 15, 2010 to comply with these Orders. 

IT IS SO ORDERED this _______________ day of _________________, 2010. 

 

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 Honorable Maria Elena James: 

 United States District Court 

Magistrate Judge 

28th

January

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