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Nature of Suit Code: 446
Nature of Suit: Americans with Disabilities Act - Other
Cause of Action: 42:12101 Americans w/ Disabilities Act (ADA)

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28 Stipulation, Declaration, And [Proposed] Order For 

Enlargement Of Time To Complete the General Order56

Joint Site Inspection And to Hold The General Order 56 

“Meet And Confer”

SIDNEY J. COHEN, ESQ., SBN 39023

SIDNEY J. COHEN PROFESSIONAL CORPORATION

427 Grand Avenue

Oakland, CA 94610

Telephone: (510) 893-6682

Facsimile: (510) 893-9450

Attorneys for Plaintiff

RICHARD SKAFF

THEODORE l. WHITE (Pro Hac Vice Pending)

DEUTSCH, KERRIGAN & STILES

755 Magazine St.

New Orleans, LA 70130

Telephone: (504) 581-5141

Facsimile: (504)566-4004

twhite@dkslaw.com

ANNE D. O’NIELL, SBN 120948

CHRISTINA A. LEE, SBN 257905

HINSHAW & CULBERTON LLP

One California Street, 18th Floor

San Francisco, Ca 94111

Telephone: (415) 362-2000

Facsimile: (415) 834-9070

aoniell@hinshawlaw.com

clee@hinshawlaw.com

Attorneys for Defendants

RITZ -CARLTON HOTEL

COMPANY, LLC, SHC HALF

MOON BAY, LLC and DTRS 

HALFMOON BAY, LLC

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

RICHARD SKAFF

Plaintiff,

V. 

RITZ -CARLTON HOTEL

COMPANY, LLC; SHC HALF

MOON BAY, LLC; DTRS HALF

MOON BAY, LLC; and DOES 1-25,

Inclusive, 

Defendants.

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CASE NO. C 10 01115 CRB

Civil Rights

STIPULATION, DECLARATION,

AND [PROPOSED] ORDER FOR 

ENLARGEMENT OF TIME TO

COMPLETE THE GENERAL

ORDER 56 JOINT SITE

INSPECTION AND TO HOLD

THE GENERAL ORDER 56

“MEET AND CONFER ”

Local Rule 6-2

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“Meet And Confer” -1-

STIPULATION

Plaintiff RICHARD SKAFF, by and through his attorney, and Defendants

RITZ -CARLTON HOTELCOMPANY, LLC, SHC HALF MOON BAY, LLC, and

DTRS HALF MOON BAY, LLC, by and through their attorneys, stipulate to an

enlargement of time from June 24, 2010 to July 20, 2010 to complete the General

Order 56 and Court Scheduling Order Joint Site Inspection and an enlargement of

time from July 6, 2010 to August 20, 2010 to hold the General Order 56 “meet and

confer.”

The parties to this action further stipulate that they have been working

amicably and cooperatively together and that it is through no fault of either the

plaintiff or the defendants that the joint site inspection was not completed by June

24, 2010.

The parties further stipulate that the defendants have granted the plaintiff

the right to inspect requested areas of the property in good faith and that none of the

defendants has waived its right to assert that the scope of the plaintiff’s inspection

described in plaintiff’s declaration exceeds the scope of inspection permissible

under the Court’s General Order 56 as it applies to the complaint in this action.

The parties further stipulate that defendants have not waived their rights to

assert that plaintiff lacks standing to seek relief for the entire scope of issues

described in plaintiff’s counsel’s declaration.

The parties further stipulate that this Stipulation may be signed in

counterparts and that facsimile or electronically transmitted signatures shall be as

valid and binding as original signatures.

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“Meet And Confer” -2-

Date: June 29,2010 SIDNEY J. COHEN

PROFESSIONAL CORPORATION

/s/ Sidney J. Cohen

 

 Sidney J. Cohen

 Attorney for Plaintiff Richard Skaff

Date: June 29, 2010 HINSHAW & CULBERTSON and

DEUTSCH, KERRIGAN & STILES

/s/ Anne D. O’Niell

 

Anne D. O’Niell

Attorneys for Defendants Ritz-Carlton

Hotel Company, LLC, SHC Half Moon Bay,

LLC, and DTRS Half Moon Bay, LLC

DECLARATION OF SIDNEY J. COHEN

I, Sidney J. Cohen, declare:

1. I am counsel for Plaintiff in this action. I am an attorney in good

standing and licensed to practice in the courts of California, in the United States

District Courts for the Northern, Eastern, and Central Districts, in the United

States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, and in the United States Supreme 

Court. If called upon to testify, I would testify as follows:

2. Pursuant to General Order 56 and this Court’s Scheduling Order,

the parties were required to hold a joint site inspection by no later than June 24,

2010 at the property and premises of the Ritz Carlton Hotel in Half Moon Bay,

California.

3. On June 22, 2010, the parties, counsel, and expert consultants attended

an all day site inspection at the property and premises of the Hotel. 

4. Plaintiff’s two expert consultants were not able to complete their 

inspection of the property and premises on June 22, 2010 for a variety of reasons,

including but not necessarily limited to the following: the broad scope of the areas

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and items to inspect in the Hotel itself, which contains 261 guestrooms, numerous

meeting rooms, multiple restaurants, multiple public restrooms, a fitness center,spa,

beauty salon, elevators, shops, etc; the broad scope of the areas and items to inspect

in additional structures on the property, including but not limited to a separate

parking structure, cottages, colony club, tennis courts, etc.; the broad scope of the

areas and items to inspect on the numerous paths of travel, sidewalks, curbs, etc

spread out over the large common areas between the Hotel and related facilities and

along the coastal paths of travel; and the inability to gain access to inspect certain

areas and items due to the fact that the Hotel was at, or close to, 100% occupancy

on June 22, 2010, including but not limited to the inability to inspect all but one of

the designated accessible guestrooms and certain meeting rooms and meeting areas,

5. Having anticipated in advance of the June 22, 2010 joint site inspection

date that it might take more than one day to conduct the inspection, counsel for the

parties had tentatively reserved June 24, 2010 to return to the Hotel to complete the

inspection of any remaining items. However, in a discussion with Hotel personnel

at the conclusion of the June 22, 2010 inspection counsel were advised that the

Hotel was 100% booked for June 24, 2010 and further was booked at or close to

100%through approximately July 7, 2010. Consequently, it became clear that access

to a substantial portion of the remaining items to inspect, including but not

necessarily limited to the numerous designated accessible guestrooms, could not be

obtained during the period that the Hotel was booked at, or close to, 100%. 

6. In further discussion with Hotel personnel at the conclusion of the June

22, 2010 inspection counsel for the parties learned that the Hotel was booked to only

approximately 40% to 50% capacity from approximately July 7-20, 2010, and

counsel presently are in the process of setting a date during that approximate time

frame to complete the joint site inspection.

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7. Following completion of the joint site inspection it will take a

significant period of time for Plaintiff’s consultants to prepare their voluminous

findings, which then will be transmitted to defendants’ counsel for review and

evaluation in advance of the “meet and confer.” We estimate that thirty (30) to forty

(40) calendar days following completion of the joint site inspection to prepare the

findings and for Defendant to evaluate, review, and respond to each of the findings

in this complex and broad scope case is a necessary time frame between the

completion of the inspection and the “meet and confer” if the “meet and confer” is

to meaningful.

8. Based on paragraphs 2-5, supra, the parties need an enlargement of 

time to no later than July 20, 2010 to complete the joint site inspection and an

enlargement of time to August 20, 2010 to conduct the “meet and confer.”

9. With the exception of extending the June 24, 2010 joint site inspection

deadline and the follow on 10 day meet and confer and mediation deadlines, the

extension does not effect court ordered deadlines.

10. A Stipulation to extend the time for Defendants to respond to the

Complaint (Docket No. 4) is the only previous modification in the case by

Stipulation or Court Order. 

I declare under penalty of perjury that the foregoing is true and correct.

Executed this 29th day of June, 2010 at Oakland, California.

/s/ Sidney J. Cohen 

 Sidney J. Cohen

ORDER

Having considered the parties Stipulation and the supporting 

Declaration, and for good cause shown, the court enlarges the date by which the 

parties are to complete the joint site inspection to July 20, 2010 and enlarges the date

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by which the parties are to hold the “meet and confer” to August 20, 2010.

IT IS SO ORDERED.

Date: _____________________________

 Charles R. Breyer

 United States District Judge 

June 30, 2010

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORN

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IT IS SO ORDERED

Judge Charles R. Breyer

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