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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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 LAW OFFICE OF STIPULATION AND [PROPOSED] ORDER

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JOHN VIOLA, State Bar # 217828

15 Boardman Place 2nd Floor 

San Francisco, CA 94103 

Tel: (415)864-4230 

Fax: (415)680-1596 

BEN ROSENFELD, State Bar # 203845

Law Office of Dennis Cunningham 

115 1⁄2 Bartlett Street 

San Francisco, CA 94110 

Tel: (415) 285-8091 

Fax: (415) 285-8092 

Attorneys for William Sorgen 

IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 

FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

WILLIAM SORGEN, 

 Plaintiff, 

 vs. 

The CITY AND COUNTY OF SAN 

FRANCISCO, San Francisco Police Chief 

HEATER FONG, San Francisco Police 

Officer BRIAN OLIVER (#776), and DOES 

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 Defendants. 

Case No. C-05-03172-TEH 

STIPULATION AND [PROPOSED] 

ORDER DISMISSING PLAINTIFF’S 

CLAIMS UNDER 42 U.S.C. § 1983 

AGAINST THE CITY AND COUNTY OF 

SAN FRANCISCO, AND PLAINTIFF’S 

DAMAGES CLAIMS FOR NON GARDEN 

VARIETY EMOTIONAL DAMAGES 

 The parties, through their undersigned counsel, hereby stipulate and request that the 

Court dismiss plaintiff’s Monell claims, sounding in 42 U.S.C. § 1983, against the City and 

County of San Francisco (“City”), as well as any claims for damages based on non-garden 

variety emotional damages, including without limitation plaintiff’s claims for intentional and 

negligent infliction of emotional distress. 

 Plaintiff agrees to allege and seek only garden variety emotional damages, as that 

term is defined in the cases of Houghton v. M & F Fishing, Inc., 198 F.R.D. 666,668 (S.D. Cal. 

2001) and Thiessen v. General Electric Capital Corp., 178 F.R.D. 568, 570 (D.Kan. 1998). 

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 San Francisco stipulate that in connection to the matters alleged in the pleadings, without 

admitting any such matters, that Officer Oliver and Chief Fong were acting in the course and 

scope of their employment and therefore if they are liable San Francisco is obligated to 

indemnify these individuals under the California Government Code, except for an award of 

punitive damages. 

 

Respectfully Submitted, 

 DATED: January 26, 2006 

JOHN VIOLA 

BEN ROSENFELD 

By: s/ - John Viola __________

JOHN VIOLA 

Attorneys for Plaintiff 

 DATED: January 26, 2006 

DENNIS J. HERRERA 

City Attorney 

JOANNE HOEPER 

Chief Trial Deputy 

PETER J. KEITH 

Deputy City Attorneys 

By: s/ Peter J. Keith___________

PETER J. KEITH 

Attorneys for Defendants 

PURSUANT TO STIPULATION, IT IS SO ORDERED: 

Dated:_______________________ _____________________________________ 

HONORABLE THELTON E. HENDERSON 

UNITED STATES DISTRICT JUDGE 

01/26/06

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORN

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Judge Thelton E. Henderson

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