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Nature of Suit Code: 893
Nature of Suit: Environmental Matters
Cause of Action: 42:9607 Real Property Tort to Land

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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

AMERIPRIDE SERVICES, INC.,

A Delaware corporation,

NO. CIV. S-00-113 LKK/JFM

Plaintiff,

v.

VALLEY INDUSTRIAL SERVICE, INC.,

a former California corporation,

et al.,

Defendants.

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AND CONSOLIDATED ACTION AND

CROSS- AND COUNTER-CLAIMS.

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The court is in receipt of the recent documents filed by

AmeriPride in the above-captioned case. The court notes that two

of these documents were filed past the filing deadline and were not

in compliance with the local rules. 

First, AmeriPride filed an “amended” response to Huhtamaki’s

statement of undisputed facts late in the afternoon on July 27,

2006, a full day after the filing deadline. The filing deadline

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was July 26, 2006 at 10:00 a.m. AmeriPride failed to explain its

delay in filing and failed to seek permission of the court to file

the amended pleading past the filing deadline. 

Second, the court is also in receipt of AmeriPride’s Exhibit

V to the Declaration of Lee Smith in Support of AmeriPride’s

Opposition to Huhtamaki’s motion for sanctions. This document

contains roughly fifty pages of over 100 color photographs. This

document was also filed late. It was filed on July 26, 2006 at

5:38 p.m. Moreover, the document was filed in violation of Local

Rule 39-138, which specifically sets forth the procedures for

filing color photographs. Finally, the court notes that although

Exhibit V is referenced in AmeriPride’s opposition brief, the brief

fails to cite to particular pages and fails to explain the content

of the photos. The court cannot, on its own, determine what the

pictures even show much less how the pictures are relevant to the

pending motion for sanctions. 

For these reasons, the court orders that Exhibit V to the

Declaration of Lee Smith in support of AmeriPride’s Opposition to

Huhtamaki’s Motion for Sanctions and the Amended Response to

Hutamaki’s Statement of Undisputed Facts are STRICKEN from the

record. 

IT IS SO ORDERED. 

DATED: July 28, 2006.

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