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Nature of Suit Code: 350
Nature of Suit: Motor Vehicle Personal Injury
Cause of Action: 28:1332 Diversity-Motor Vehicle Product Liability

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STIPULATION AND [PROPOSED] ORDER

TO CONTINUE MEDIATION DEADLINE

Case No. C 05-00233 HRL -1-

KEVIN V. RYAN (CSBN 118321)

United States Attorney

JOANN M. SWANSON (CSBN 88143)

Chief, Civil Division

CLAIRE T. CORMIER (CSBN 154364)

Assistant United States Attorney

150 Almaden Blvd., Suite 900

San Jose, California 95113

Telephone: (408) 535-5082

FAX: (408) 535-5081

Attorneys for Federal Defendant

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

SAN JOSE DIVISION

SHIRLEY PONCINI,

Plaintiff,

v.

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA,

Defendants.

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Case No. C 05-00233 HRL

STIPULATION AND [PROPOSED]

ORDER CONTINUING DEADLINE FOR

MEDIATION

This case is currently scheduled for mediation with a court-appointed mediator on June

22, 2006.

Defendant contends that a mediation at this time is unlikely to be fruitful, due to the

pending motion to dismiss and order to show cause, as well as the current lack of information

from plaintiff relating to her claims and damages. A hearing on the order to show cause is

scheduled for June 20, 2006, only two days before the scheduled mediation. Defendant’s

representative for the mediation would need to fly from Missouri to attend the mediation.

Without waiving any arguments with regard to the propriety of dismissal, defendant

contends that, if the case is not dismissed, a mediation would likely be more fruitful after the

dismissal and order to show cause issues have been resolved, and after defendant has had a

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TO CONTINUE MEDIATION DEADLINE

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reasonable opportunity to obtain and review plaintiff’s evidence. The March 28, 2006 Case

Management Order did not set a specific deadline for mediation, so it is not clear that the recent

vacation of the dates in that order vacated the mediation deadline set forth by the Court’s ADR

Local Rules.

Accordingly, the parties hereby STIPULATE AND REQUEST that the Court extend the 

deadline for mediation of this case to September 25, 2006.

Respectfully submitted,

DATED: June 15, 2006 KEVIN V. RYAN

United States Attorney

 /s/

CLAIRE T. CORMIER

Assistant United States Attorney

DATED: June 15, 2006 SCHER & BASSET

 /s/

GERALD H. SCHER

Attorney for Plaintiff

[PROPOSED] CASE MANAGEMENT ORDER

Upon stipulation of the parties and good cause appearing, IT IS SO ORDERED.

Dated:_________________ _____________________________________

HOWARD R. LLOYD

United States Magistrate Judge

Of Counsel for Defendant:

Joseph R. Doyle

Attorney

United States Postal Service

National Tort Center

P. O. Box 66640

St. Louis, MO 63166-6640

Telephone: 314-872-5154

6/16/06 /s/ Howard R. Lloyd

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