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Nature of Suit Code: 890
Nature of Suit: Other Statutory Actions
Cause of Action: 28:2201 Declaratory Judgement

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ORDER PENDING APPEAL 

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BOUTIN JONES INC. 

Robert R. Rubin, SBN 117428 

Michael E. Chase, SBN 214506 

555 Capitol Mall, Suite 1500 

Sacramento, CA 95814-4603 

Tel.: (916) 321-4444 

Fax: (916) 441-7597 

RAPPORT AND MARSTON 

David J. Rapport, SBN 054384 

405 West Perkins Street 

Ukiah, CA 95482 

(707) 462-6846 

Attorneys for plaintiffs Blue Lake Rancheria, Blue Lake Rancheria Economic 

Development Corp. and Mainstay Business Solutions 

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 

EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 

SACRAMENTO DIVISION 

BLUE LAKE RANCHERIA, a federally 

recognized Indian Tribe, et al., 

 Plaintiffs, 

 vs. 

DAVID LANIER, individually and in his 

capacity as Secretary of the California Labor 

and Workforce Development Agency, et al., 

 Defendants. 

CASE NO. 2:11-cv-01124-JAM-JFM

STIPULATION AND ORDER 

MODIFYING AMENDED STATUS 

(PRETRIAL SCHEDULING) ORDER 

PENDING APPEAL 

UNITED STATES, 

 Intervenor. 

 Plaintiffs Blue Lake Rancheria Economic Development Corporation (“BLREDC”) and 

Mainstay Business Solutions (“MBS”); defendants David Lanier, Patrick Henning, Jr., Pam Harris, 

Jack Budmark, Talbott Smith, Kathy Dunne, and Sarah Reece; and intervenor United States, 

collectively, “the parties,” stipulate as follows: 

1. The Complaint was filed on April 26, 2011. 

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2. On January 5, 2015, the Court entered in this case an Amended Status (Pretrial 

Scheduling) Order (“Scheduling Order”). The Scheduling Order, among other things, provided 

that all dispositive motions shall be filed by January 13, 2016; that the final pre-trial conference 

shall be held on April 1, 2016; and that the trial shall commence on May 23, 2016. 

3. On May 26, 2015, the Court entered Judgment in favor of Blue Lake Rancheria 

(“BLR”). 

4. On June 26, 2015, Defendants filed a Notice of Appeal from the Judgment in favor 

of BLR. Briefing has not yet commenced on Defendants’ appeal. 

5. For purposes of this action only, the parties stipulate that BLREDC and MBS are 

arms of the BLR tribe within the meaning of federal tribal sovereign immunity doctrine; and for 

purposes of this action only, BLREDC and MBS were entitled to sovereign immunity to the same 

extent as BLR is determined to be entitled to sovereign immunity. 

6. The parties agree that trial of BLREDC’s and MBS’s claims against EDD should 

be postponed until after Defendants’ appeal from the judgment for BLR is resolved, because the 

issues at trial will be substantially similar to those on appeal. 

7. The parties agree that the deadline to file dispositive motions, and the dates for 

final pretrial conference and trial should be vacated. All other dates and deadlines in the 

Scheduling Order (whether already past or not) should remain the same. 

8. The parties agree that they should file a joint status report within fourteen (14) days 

of the Court of Appeal’s issuing its mandate in the current appeal, in which the parties will 

propose dates for the deadline to file dispositive motions and for final pretrial conference and trial. 

9. Discovery should not be re-opened except upon mutual agreement of the parties. 

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IT IS SO AGREED. 

Dated: October 15, 2015 BOUTIN JONES INC. 

 By: /s/ Michael E. Chase 

 Michael E. Chase 

 Attorneys for plaintiffs 

Dated: October 15, 2015 KAMALA D. HARRIS 

 Attorney General of California 

 By: /s/ Jill Bowers 

 Jill Bowers 

 Attorneys for defendants 

Dated: October 15, 2015 CAROLINE D. CIRALOLO 

Acting Assistant Attorney General 

 By: /s/ W. Carl Hankla 

 W. Carl Hankla 

 Attorneys for intervenor 

 

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ORDER 

Based upon the stipulation of the parties, and for good cause shown, the Court hereby 

ORDERS that: 

1. The following dates and deadlines, as set forth in the January 5, 2015 Amended Status 

(Pretrial Scheduling) Order (“Scheduling Order”), are vacated: 

 the trial date of May 23, 2016; 

 the pretrial conference date of April 1, 2016, and; 

 the January 13, 2016 deadline to file dispositive motions. 

2. All other dates and deadlines provided in the Scheduling Order (whether already past 

or not) shall remain the same. 

3. The parties shall file a joint status report within fourteen (14) days of the Court of 

Appeal’s issuing its mandate in the defendants’ appeal of this Court’s Judgment in 

favor of Blue Lake Rancheria. In their joint status report, the parties shall propose 

dates for the deadline to file dispositive motions and for final pretrial conference and 

trial. 

4. Discovery shall not be re-opened except upon mutual agreement of the parties 

IT IS SO ORDERED. 

Dated: 10/15/2015 /s/ John A. Mendez_____________ 

Hon. John A. Mendez 

United States District Court Judge 

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