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Nature of Suit Code: 893
Nature of Suit: Environmental Matters
Cause of Action: 42:6901 Environmental Cleanup Expenses

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STIPULATION AND [PROPOSED] ORDER EXTENDING TIME No. 06-02560 JSW WDB 

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JOHN BRISCOE (State Bar No. 053223) 

LAWRENCE S. BAZEL (State Bar No. 114641) 

MELANIE TANG (State Bar No. 221264) 

BRISCOE IVESTER & BAZEL LLP

155 Sansome Street, Seventh Floor 

San Francisco, CA 94104 

(415) 402-2700 

Fax (415) 398-5630 

Attorneys for Defendants CUE VI, LLC and 

UNION PACIFIC RAILROAD COMPANY 

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 

 NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 

On January 23, 2008, Humboldt Baykeeper and Ecological Rights Foundation (“Plaintiffs”) 

filed a motion to compel discovery from defendants CUE VI, LLC and Union Pacific Railroad 

Company (“Defendants”). Defendants would like additional time to respond to the motion given 

the litigation dates in February. The parties discussed a briefing schedule and hearing date for 

Plaintiffs’ motion as well as Plaintiffs’ Request for Inspection, Wet Weather. Plaintiffs also 

discussed the problem with pushing the hearing date given the need to review responsive 

documents should Plaintiffs’ motion be successful in time to file their opening motion for summary 

judgment, which Judge White ordered be filed March 28, 2008. 

Plaintiffs and Defendants, by and through their counsel, hereby stipulate to the following. 

IT IS HEREBY STIPULATED AND AGREED that: 

HUMBOLDT BAYKEEPER, a program of 

Ecological Rights Foundation, and 

ECOLOGICAL RIGHTS FOUNDATION, a 

non-profit corporation, 

 Plaintiffs, 

 v. 

UNION PACIFIC RAILROAD COMPANY, a 

Delaware corporation, NORTH COAST 

RAILROAD AUTHORITY, a state agency, and 

CUE VI, LLC, an Alaska limited liability 

company, 

 Defendants. 

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STIPULATION FOR BRIEFING 

SCHEDULE AND CONTINUANCE 

OF HEARING ON PLAINTIFFS’ 

MOTION TO COMPEL; SCHEDULE 

FOR SITE INSPECTION; 

[PROPOSED] ORDER 

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1. The hearing on Plaintiffs’ motion to compel should be continued from February 27, 

2008 until March 14, 2008 at 1:30 p.m. Defendants will file their opposition on or before February 

25, 2008 and Plaintiffs will file their reply on or before March 5, 2008. 

2. If Plaintiffs’ motion to compel is granted, Defendants agree to produce responsive 

documents and discovery responses within 7 days of the Court’s final decision, except for 

documents ordered to be produced responding to Plaintiffs’ Third RFP to Union Pacific and Fourth 

RFP to CUE, which shall be produced within a reasonable time as ordered by the Court. 

3. Plaintiffs will complete their inspection on March 4, 2008 and will limit it in scope 

as to time and individuals attending. Specifically, the inspection will be limited to: observing the 

site and water flow during a rain event, determining where a pipe originating along the southern 

end of the Balloon Track in what has sometimes been referred to as the “Coors Lite culvert” ends; 

and collecting no more than 5 water samples and 1 sediment sample. Plaintiffs will provide a list 

of the persons to be attending the inspection by March 1, 2008. Plaintiffs will provide a release in 

the form previously used for each person entering the site. Plaintiffs will provide to Defendants 

copies of all videos, recordings, and test results obtained in connection with the investigation of 

where the pipe ends within 14 days of receipt. 

DATED: February 1, 2008. 

LAWYERS FOR CLEAN WATER, INC. 

By: __________/s/ 

Layne Friedrich 

Attorneys for Plaintiffs HUMBOLDT 

BAYKEEPER and ECOLOGICAL RIGHTS 

FOUNDATION 

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DATED: February 1, 2008. 

BRISCOE IVESTER & BAZEL LLP

By: __________/s/ 

Lawrence S. Bazel 

Attorneys for Defendants CUE VI, LLC and 

UNION PACIFIC RAILROAD COMPANY 

I, Lawrence Bazel, attest that the content of this document is acceptable to all persons 

required to sign this document. 

DATED: February 1, 2008. 

BRISCOE IVESTER & BAZEL LLP

By: __________/s/ 

Lawrence S. Bazel 

Attorneys for Defendants CUE VI, LLC and 

UNION PACIFIC RAILROAD COMPANY 

[PROPOSED] ORDER 

 GOOD CAUSE APPEARING, the hearing on Plaintiffs’ motion to compel is continued 

from February 27, 2008 until March 14, 2008 at 1:30 p.m. Defendants will file their opposition on 

or before February 25, 2008 and Plaintiffs will file their reply on or before March 5, 2008.

 The site inspection and document production shall be conducted as agreed above. 

IT IS SO ORDERED. 

DATED: _________________, 2008 

By: 

Wayne D. Brazil, Judge 

United States District Court for the Northern 

District of California 

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