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Nature of Suit Code: 442
Nature of Suit: Civil Rights Employment
Cause of Action: 42:1983 Civil Rights Act

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Stipulated Request to Stay Proceedings; Proposed Order Thereon

Hamidi, et al. v. SEIU Local 1000, et al., Case No. 2:14-cv-00319-WBS-KJN

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JEFFREY B. DEMAIN (SBN 126715)

EVE H. CERVANTEZ (SBN 164709)

P. CASEY PITTS (SBN 262463) 

Altshuler Berzon LLP

177 Post Street, Suite 300

San Francisco, California 94108

Telephone: (415) 421-7151

Facsimile: (415) 362-8064

jdemain@altshulerberzon.com

ecervantez@altshulerberzon.com

cpitts@altshulerberzon.com

YORK J. CHANG (SBN 220415)

ANNE M. GIESE (SBN 143934)

SEIU Local 1000

1808 14th Street

Sacramento, California 95811

Telephone: (916) 554-1279 

Facsimile: (916) 554-1292

ychang@seiu1000.org

agiese@seiu1000.org

Attorneys for Defendant 

Service Employees International Union, Local 1000

IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

KOUROSH KENNETH HAMIDI, et al., AND 

THE CLASS THEY SEEK TO REPRESENT

Plaintiffs,

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SERVICE EMPLOYEES INTERNATIONAL 

UNION, LOCAL 1000, et al.;

Defendants.

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No. 2:14-cv-00319-WBS-KJN

STIPULATED REQUEST TO STAY 

PROCEEDINGS; PROPOSED ORDER 

THEREON

Hearing Date: N/A

Time: N/A

Courtroom: N/A

Judge: Hon. William B. Shubb

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TO THE COURT:

The parties to the above-captioned case hereby submit the following stipulated request to stay 

all further proceedings in the case, specifically summary judgment, all further pretrial proceedings, and 

trial, pending a decision from the U.S. Supreme Court in the case Friedrichs v. California Teachers 

Ass’n, Case No. 14-915, cert. granted, 2015 WL 407687 (Mem), 83 USLW 3653 (June 30, 2015), 

which raises inter alia the same issue of the constitutionality of the opt-out procedure for fair share fee 

objections that is at the heart of the present case. The Supreme Court granted a petition for writ of 

certiorari on June 30, 2015, see id., and its decision is anticipated by the end of the October 2015 term, 

that is, by June 30, 2016. In support of this stipulated request, the parties provide the following 

showing of good cause:

1. Plaintiffs filed their Complaint in this case on January 31, 2014. Docket No. 1.

2. Both defendants, Service Employees International Union, Local 1000 (“Local 1000”) 

and the State Controller, answered the Complaint on April 25, 2014. Docket Nos. 17 & 18. 

3. The Court issued a Status (Pretrial Scheduling) Order, Docket No. 21, on July 31, 2014, 

setting the following pretrial and trial schedule:

August 4, 2014 Initial disclosures

January 5, 2015 Initial expert reports

April 2, 2015 Rebuttal expert reports

June 1, 2015 Discovery cut-off

November 2, 2015 Motion cut-off

February 1, 2016 Final pretrial conference

March 29, 2016 Trial

4. Pursuant to that schedule, initial disclosures were exchanged and discovery has closed. 

(No expert reports were exchanged, so none of the parties will be proffering expert testimony.) 

Moreover, although not set by the foregoing schedule, Plaintiffs filed a motion for class certification, 

which the Court granted in part and denied in part on May 22, 2015. See Docket No. 53; see also

Docket No. 55 (Order Amending Class Definition). All that remains is summary judgment and, if 

necessary, trial.

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5. However, summary judgment and/or trial in the present case may be rendered 

unnecessary, or at the least the scope of any summary judgment and/or trial will likely be substantially 

narrowed, by the Supreme Court’s eventual decision in Friedrichs. The present case challenges the 

constitutionality of Defendant SEIU Local 1000’s opt-out system that requires non-members to take 

affirmative action and submit fee objections in order to prevent the deductions of SEIU Local 1000’s

non-chargeable expenses from their wages. That same question is raised in Friedrichs. (Friedrichs

also raises another question not raised by the present case: whether the fair share fee system in general 

is unconstitutional, i.e., whether the First Amendment prohibits any requirement that non-member 

public employees financially support the union that represents them in collective bargaining, including 

both chargeable and non-chargeable expenses.)

6. It is likely that, whichever way the Supreme Court rules in Friedrichs, summary 

judgment and/or trial will not be necessary in this case, or at least the scope of any such summary 

judgment and/or trial will likely be substantially narrowed. Upon the Supreme Court’s decision in 

Friedrichs, the parties will meet to discuss how to resolve this case in light of that decision and inform 

the Court of their suggestion(s). If this Court does not stay the proceedings in the present case, the 

parties and the Court will be required to expend time and resources that, in all likelihood, will be 

wasted effort because this Court’s decision ultimately will either be affirmed or reversed based on the 

Supreme Court’s decision in Friedrichs. On the other hand, nothing will be lost, and no party will be

harmed, by awaiting the Supreme Court’s decision in Friedrichs.

For the foregoing reasons, the undersigned parties hereby respectfully request this Court to stay 

all remaining proceedings in this case, specifically summary judgment, all further pretrial proceedings, 

and trial, pending the Supreme Court’s decision in Friedrichs, and to vacate the scheduled dates for the 

motion cut-off, final pretrial conference, and the trial. When the Supreme Court issues its decision in 

Friedrichs, the parties will so inform this Court and will meet and confer to present this Court with a 

joint status statement discussing what they believe is left to be done in this case and how they believe 

this Court should proceed.

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Dated: July 24 2015. Respectfully submitted,

JEFFREY B. DEMAIN

EVE H. CERVANTEZ

P. CASEY PITTS

Altshuler Berzon LLP

YORK J. CHANG

ANNE M. GIESE

SEIU Local 1000

By: /s/ Jeffrey B. Demain 

 Jeffrey B. Demain

Attorneys for Defendant Service Employees 

International Union, Local 1000

KAMALA D. HARRIS

Attorney General of California

MARK R. BECKINGTON

Supervising Deputy Attorney General

KIM L. NGUYEN

Deputy Attorney General

State Bar No. 209524

300 South Spring Street, Suite 1702

Los Angeles, CA 90013

Telephone: (213) 897-5677

Facsimile: (213) 897-5775

E-mail: Kim.Nguyen@doj.ca.gov

By: /s/Kim Nguyen (as authorized on July 24, 2015)

 Kim Nguyen

 

Attorneys for Defendant California State Controller

W. JAMES YOUNG, Esq. (admitted pro hac vice)

c/o National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation, Inc.

8001 Braddock Road, Suite 600

Springfield, Virginia 22160

(703) 321-8510

STEVEN R. BURLINGHAM, Esq.

California Bar No. 88544

Gary, Till & Burlingham

5330 Madison Avenue, Suite F

Sacramento, California 95841

Telephone: (916) 332-8122

Facsimile: (916) 332-8153

By: /s/W. James Young (as authorized on July 24, 2015) 

 W. James Young

Attorneys for Plaintiffs and the Class They Represent

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ORDER

IT IS SO ORDERED.

Dated: July 27, 2015

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