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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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John D. Edgcomb (State Bar No. 112275) 

jedgcomb@edgcomb-law.com

Mary E. Wilke (State Bar No. 216723) 

LAW OFFICE OF JOHN D. EDGCOMB 

115 Sansome Street, Suite 805 

San Francisco, California 94104 

Telephone: (415) 399-1555 

Attorneys for BAYER CROPSCIENCE, INC. 

JAMES KOTROUS, individually and doing 

business as THE MATTRESS FACTORY, 

Plaintiff, 

v. 

GOSS-JEWETT COMPANY OF 

NORTHERN CALIFORNIA, INC., et al., 

Defendants. 

CIV.S-02-1520 FCD (JFM) 

STIPULATION AND ORDER RE: 

CONTINUANCE OF SCHEDULING 

ORDER DEADLINES 

The parties to this matter, by and through their undersigned counsel, stipulate and jointly 

request that the Court continue the scheduling order deadlines for approximately 90 days from 

the dates ordered in the March 29, 2005 Status (Pretrial Scheduling) Order to allow the Court to 

rule on Bayer Cropscience Inc.’s Motion for Reconsideration and to allow the newly added 

parties to conduct discovery and review discovery taken prior to their joinder. The parties have 

previously requested extensions of the scheduling order deadlines on May 28, 2004, October 22, 

2004 and March 24, 2005. 

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 

EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 

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I. DISCOVERY STATUS 

 The parties stipulated to allow, and the Court allowed, Anselmo to file an Amended 

Cross-Claim naming additional parties on October 14, 2004. Newly-named cross-defendants 

moved the Court to dismiss the First Amended Cross-Claim. The Court granted Anselmo leave 

to file a Second Amended Cross-Claim. Anselmo filed a Second Amended Cross-Claim on 

February 22, 2005 and cross-defendants moved to dismiss the Second Amended Cross-Claim on 

March 11, 2005. On April 26, 2005 defendant Bayer Cropscience, Inc. moved for judgment on 

the pleadings of the First Amended Complaint of Plaintiff James Kotrous. On May 24, 2005 

Anselmo voluntarily dismissed cross-defendants Dow Chemical Company, Occidental Chemical 

Corporation, PPG Industries, and Vulcan Chemical Technologies, Inc. On June 16, 2005, the 

Court denied Bayer Cropscience Inc.’s Motion for Judgment on the Pleadings. On July 14, 

2005, Bayer Cropscience, Inc. filed a Motion for Reconsideration of the Court’s Order denying 

Bayer’s Motion for Judgment on the Pleadings. Because the hearing for Bayer Cropscience 

Inc.’s Motion for Reconsideration is set for August 26, 2005 and the newly joined parties need to 

participate in discovery, the parties request that the scheduling order deadlines be continued 

approximately 90 days. 

Prior to the March 11, 2005 Motion to Dismiss Anselmo’s Second Amended CrossClaim, certain parties exchanged written discovery and responses and two depositions were 

taken. 

 

II. THE EXISTING COURT PRETRIAL SCHEDULING ORDER 

DEADLINES AS SET FORTH IN MARCH 29, 2005 ORDER 

Disclosure of Expert Witnesses: All counsel are to designate in writing, file with the 

court, and serve upon all other parties the name, address, and area of expertise of each expert that 

they propose to tender at trial no later than August 12, 2005. 

Discovery: All discovery shall be completed by October 7, 2005. In this context, 

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“completed” means that all discovery shall have been conducted so that all depositions have been 

taken and any disputes relative to discovery shall have been resolved by appropriate order if 

necessary and, where discovery has been ordered, the order has been obeyed. All motions to 

compel discovery must be noticed on the magistrate judge’s calendar in accordance with the 

local rules of this court. 

Motions, Final Pre-Trial Conference and Trial: Dispositive motion deadline: 

December 16, 2005; final pre-trial conference set for February 16, 2006; and jury trial set for 

April 25, 2006. 

III. THE PROPOSED PRETRIAL SCHEDULING ORDER DEADLINES 

Disclosure of Expert Witnesses: All counsel are to designate in writing, file with the 

court, and serve upon all other parties the name, address, and area of expertise of each expert that 

they propose to tender at trial no later than November 12, 2005. 

Discovery: All discovery shall be completed by January 7, 2006. In this context, 

“completed” means that all discovery shall have been conducted so that all depositions have been 

taken and any disputes relative to discovery shall have been resolved by appropriate order if 

necessary and, where discovery has been ordered, the order has been obeyed. All motions to 

compel discovery must be noticed on the magistrate judge’s calendar in accordance with the 

local rules of this court. 

Motions, Final Pre-Trial Conference and Trial: Dispositive motion deadline: March

16, 2006; final pre-trial conference and jury trial to be set by the Court: 

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IV. CONCLUSION 

For the reasons set forth above, the parties request the Court to continue the current 

scheduling order deadlines as set forth above. 

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Respectfully submitted,

Dated: July 26, 2005 LAW OFFICE OF JOHN D. EDGCOMB 

By: /S/ 

Mary E. Wilke 

Attorney for Defendant 

BAYER CROPSCIENCE INC. 

Dated: July 26, 2005 SOMACH, SIMMONS AND DUNN 

By: /S/ 

Michael Vergara 

Attorney for Plaintiff 

 JAMES KOTROUS 

Dated: July 26, 2005 LAW OFFICES OF JEFFORY J. SCHARFF 

 

By: /S/ 

Jeffory J. Scharff 

Attorney for Defendant 

EDWARD ANSELMO 

Dated: July 26, 2005 CAREY & CAREY 

By: /S/ 

Jerry Y. Fong 

Attorney for Defendants 

 STEVEN AND MICHAEL 

 LAMANET 

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Dated: July 26, 2005 LAW OFFICES OF WILLIAM W. BURNS 

 

By: /S/ 

William W. Burns 

Attorney for Defendant 

GOSS-JEWETT COMPANY OF 

NORTHERN CALIFORNIA 

Dated: July 26, 2005 GREVE, CLIFFORD, WENGEL & PARAS, 

 LLP 

By: /S/ 

Gary L. Vinson 

Attorney for Cross-Defendant 

KLEINFELDER, INC. 

Dated: July 26, 2005 BARG COFFIN LEWIS & TRAPP, LLP 

 

By: _________/S/_______________

R. Morgan Gilhuly 

Attorney for Cross-Defendant 

OCCIDENTAL CHEMICAL 

CORPORATION 

Dated: July 26, 2005 BEVERIDGE & DIAMOND 

By: /S/ 

Gary J. Smith 

Attorney for Cross-Defendant 

PPG INDUSTRIES 

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Dated: July 26, 2005 NOLEN SAUL BRELSFORD 

By: /S/ 

Rudy Nolen 

Attorney for Cross-Defendant 

RAMAGE ENVIRONMENTAL 

Dated: July 26, 2005 WILSON, ELSER, MOSKOWITZ, EDELMAN 

 & DICKER, LLP 

By: /S/ 

Jeffrey S. Tachiki 

Attorney for Cross-Defendant 

 RAH ENVIRONMENTAL, INC. 

Dated: July 26, 2005 JEFER, MANGELS, BUTLER & MARMARO 

 

By: /S/ 

Kenneth A. Ehrlich 

Attorney for Cross-Defendants 

VULCAN MATERIALS and VULCAN 

CHEMICAL TECHNOLOGIES, INC. 

Good cause appearing , IT IS HEREBY ORDERED that the Scheduling Order Deadlines are 

modified as follows: Disclosure of Expert Witnesses: All counsel are to designate in writing, 

file with the court, and serve upon all other parties the name, address, and area of expertise of 

each expert that they propose to tender at trial no later than November 11, 2005; 

Discovery: All discovery shall be completed by January 6, 2006; 

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Dispositive Motion Deadline: Dispositive motion deadline: March 24, 2006; 

Final Pre-Trial Conference : Conference set for May 26, 2006 at 1:30 p.m. The joint 

pretrial statement shall be filed on or before May 19, 2006; 

Trial: The jury trial is set for July 25, 2006 at 9:00 a.m.

 

DATED: July 27, 2005 /s/ Frank C. Damrell Jr. 

 UNITED STATES DISTRICT JUDGE 

 THE HONORABLE JUDGE DAMRELL 

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PROOF OF SERVICE

I am a citizen of the United States, over 18 years of age, not a party to the 

litigation, and am an employee with the Law Office of John D. Edgcomb, 115 Sansome Street, 

Suite 805, San Francisco, CA 94104. I am readily familiar with the practice of this office for 

collection and processing of correspondence for mailing with the United States Postal Service 

and the e-filing process. Correspondence is deposited with the United States Postal Service the 

same day as it collected and processed in the ordinary course of business. 

Today I served the attached: 

 

STIPULATION AND [PROPOSED] ORDER RE: CONTINUANCE OF SCHEDULING 

ORDER DEADLINES 

by causing a true and correct copy of the above to be placed in the United States Mail at 

San Francisco, California in sealed envelope(s) with postage prepaid, addressed to the person on 

the attached service list and emailing to the persons on the attached service list through the efiling process. 

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

this reply was executed in San Francisco, California on July 26, 2005 

By ___________/S/___________________ 

Nicole Uribe 

SERVICE LIST – SERVED VIA E-FILING 

Jeffory J. Scharff 

Mark R. Wetters 

Law Offices of Jeffory J. Scharff 

2625 Fair Oaks Blvd. Suite 7 

Sacramento, CA 95864 

Attorneys for Defendant Edward Anselmo

Jerry Y. Fong 

Carey & Carey 

P.O. Box 1040 

Palo Alto, CA 94302-1040 

Attorneys for Defendants Steven Lamanet and 

Michael Lamanet 

William W. Burns 

Law Offices of William W. Burns 

15720 Winchester Blvd. 

Los Gatos, CA 95030 

Attorneys for Defendant Goss-Jewett 

Company of Northern California 

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Gary L. Vinson 

Greve, Clifford, Wengel & Paras LLP 

2870 Gateway Oaks Drive, Suite 210 

Sacramento, CA 95833-4324 

Attorneys for Cross-Defendant Kleinfelder, 

Inc. 

Stephen C. Lewis 

R. Morgan Gilhuly 

Donald E. Sobelman 

Barg Coffin Lewis & Trapp, LLP 

One Market, Steuart Tower, Suite 2700 

San Francisco, CA 94105-1475 

Attorneys for Cross-Defendant Occidental 

Chemical Corporation 

Gary J. Smith, Esq. 

Beveridge & Diamond 

456 Montgomery Street, Suite 1800 

San Francisco, CA 94104-1251 

Attorneys for Cross-Defendant PPG Industries, 

Inc. 

Rudy Nolen 

Nolen Saul Brelsford 

350 University Avenue 

Sacramento, CA 95825 

Attorneys for Cross-Defendant Ramage 

Environmental 

Michael Vergara, Esq. 

Erica R. Arceo, Esq. 

Somach, Simmons & Dunn 

813 Sixth Street, Third Floor 

Sacramento, CA 95814-2403 

Attorneys for Plaintiff James Kotrous 

Kenneth A. Ehrlich 

Jefer, Mangels, Butler & Marmaro LLP 

1900 Avenue of the Stars, Seventh Floor 

Los Angeles, CA 90067-4308 

Attorneys for Cross-Defendants Vulcan 

Materials Company and Vulcan Chemical 

Technologies, Inc. 

SERVICE LIST – SERVED VIA U.S. MAIL 

Ronald S. Bushner 

Jeffrey S. Tachiki 

Wilson, Elser, Moskowitz, Edelman & Dicker 

LLP 

650 California Street, 14th Floor 

San Francisco, CA 94108-2718 

Attorneys for Cross-Defendant RAH 

Environmental, Inc. 

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