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Nature of Suit Code: 440
Nature of Suit: Other Civil Rights
Cause of Action: 42:1983 Civil Rights Act

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Stipulation for Order re InterimFees & Costs Freitag v. CA Dept. of Corrections (C00-2278 TEH)

PRICE AND ASSOCIATES

 PAMELA Y. PRICE (SBN 107713)

 1611 Telegraph Avenue, Suite 1450

 Oakland CA 94612

 Telephone: 510.452.0292

 Telefax: 510.452.5625

 E-Mail: pypesq@aol.com

LAW OFFICES OF JOHN L. BURRIS

 JOHN L. BURRIS (SBN 069888)

CHARLES STEPHEN RALSTON (SBN 034111)

Attorneys for Plaintiff DEANNA L. FREITAG

EDMUND G. BROWN JR.

 Attorney General of the State of California

JACOB A. APPELSMITH

 Senior Assistant Attorney General

VINCENT J. SCALLY, JR. (SBN 058223)

 Supervising Deputy Attorney General

KATHRYN ALLEN (SBN 137685)

 Deputy Attorney General

LYN HARLAN (SBN 171471)

 Deputy Attorney General

RICHARD L. MANFORD (SBN 051092)

 Deputy Attorney General

 1300 I Street, Suite 125, Sacramento CA 95814 (delivery)

 P.O. Box 944255, Sacramento CA 94244-2550 (mail)

 Telephone: 916.324.5367

 Telefax: 916.322.4483 or 916.324.5567

 E-Mail: dick.manford@doj.ca.gov

Attorneys for Defendants CALIFORNIA DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS AND

REHABILITATION, ROBERT L. AYERS, JR., AND TERESA A. SCHWARTZ

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA (SAN FRANCISCO DIVISION)

DEANNA L. FREITAG,

Plaintiff,

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CALIFORNIA DEPARTMENT OF

CORRECTIONS, et al.,

Defendants. 

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No. C00-2278-TEH

STIPULATION, AGREEMENT, AND

REQUEST FOR ORDER AWARDING

INTERIM ATTORNEYS’ FEES AND

COSTS ATTRIBUTABLE TO PLAINTIFF’S

CLAIMS UNDER TITLE VII

Come now Plaintiff DEANNA FREITAG and Defendants CALIFORNIA

DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS AND REHABILITATION, ROBERT L. AYERS, 

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JR., AND TERESA A. SCHWARTZ who, by and through their respective counsel of record,

stipulate, agree, and request, as follows:

RECITALS

1. On March 02, 2007, plaintiff filed a motion for an award of interim

attorneys’ fees and costs. The defendants filed an opposition thereto on March 26, and

plaintiff filed her reply on April 02.

2. A hearing was held on the motion on April 16. The court granted the

motion, but found that plaintiff’s papers did not sufficiently support the amount of her

request. The court therefore ordered the parties to meet and confer with a view toward

reaching agreement as to an amount of interim attorneys’ fees attributable to plaintiff’s Title

VII verdicts. The court also set a briefing schedule to be met in the event that the parties

could not so agree.

3. The parties met and conferred by conference calls on April 18 and 19, 2007,

and have reached agreement in the premises for payment. The parties understand, however,

that the defendants cannot guarantee payment by a date certain because (a) they must have

in hand a signed court order directing such payment because the funds necessary to make

payment are locked in a Special Deposit Fund, and (b) such payment involves another state

agency, namely the State Controller’s Office which actually issues the check.

Now, and therefore, the parties stipulate, agree, and request, as follows:

STIPULATION, AGREEMENT, AND REQUEST

A. The defendants will pay to Price and Associates as trustee for Deanna

Freitag the sum of $500,000.00 as and for interim attorneys’ fees attributable to plaintiff’s

Title VII verdicts through the fee award order of October 17, 2003, and plaintiff agrees to

accept such payment for such purpose, without prejudice to her claim for an amount of further

fees as awarded by the court on October 17, 2003, on November 19, 2003, and fees that have

been incurred since September 30, 2003 and which may be awarded by the court upon entry

of final judgment or as agreed to by the parties.

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Stipulation for Order re InterimFees & Costs Freitag v. CA Dept. of Corrections (C00-2278 TEH)

B. The defendants will pay to Price and Associates the sum of $93,500.00,

which represents 100% of statutory costs per Bill of Costs filed May 19, 2003, and nonstatutory costs awarded by order of October 17, 2003;

C. The payments to be made hereunder are and will be creditable toward any

and all future liabilities and obligations that the defendants, or any of them, may have to

plaintiff in this action.

D. Upon receipt of an endorsed copy of the court’s below order, the defendants

and their counsel will do everything within their power and ability to ensure that the required

payments are processed and issued as expeditiously as possible, giving the same the highest

priority.

E. The parties jointly request that the court sign the below order, and vacate

the briefing schedule relative to the subject motion.

Dated: April ___, 2007

PRICE AND ASSOCIATES

 PAMELA Y. PRICE

LAW OFFICES OF JOHN L. BURRIS

 JOHN L. BURRIS

CHARLES STEPHEN RALSTON

by: /s/ Pamela Y. Price PAMELA Y. PRICE

Attorneys for Plaintiff DEANNA L. FREITAG

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Stipulation for Order re InterimFees & Costs Freitag v. CA Dept. of Corrections (C00-2278 TEH)

Dated: April 23, 2007

EDMUND G. BROWN JR.

 Attorney General of the State of California

JACOB A. APPELSMITH

 Senior Assistant Attorney General

VINCENT J. SCALLY, JR.

 Supervising Deputy Attorney General

KATHRYN ALLEN

 Deputy Attorney General

LYN HARLAN

 Deputy Attorney General

by: /s/ Kathryn Allen for 

RICHARD L. MANFORD

 Deputy Attorney General 

Attorneys for Defendants CALIFORNIA

DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS AND

REHABILITATION, ROBERT L. AYERS, JR.,

and TERESA SCHWARTZ

ORDER

The court having read and considered the foregoing Stipulation, and GOOD

CAUSE APPEARING THEREFOR,

IT IS HEREBY ORDERED that the defendants shall make the payments as

above described as expeditiously as possible, assigning their highest priority to the same, and

that the briefing schedule previously established relative to the subject motion shall be, and

hereby is, VACATED.

DATED: April ___, 2007

 THELTON E. HENDERSON

United States District Judge

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