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Nature of Suit Code: 893
Nature of Suit: Environmental Matters
Cause of Action: 16:1538 Endangered Species Act

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Stipulation; [Proposed] Order re: Case Schedule Case No. 13-cv-00402-EDL 1

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Christopher A. Sproul (Bar No. 126398) 

Jodene Isaacs (State Bar No. 226895) 

Environmental Advocates 

5135 Anza Street 

San Francisco, California 94121 

Telephone: (415) 533-3376 

Facsimile: (415) 358-5695 

Email: csproul@enviroadvocates.com

Email: jisaacs@enviroadvocates.com

Michael A. Costa (Bar No. 219416) 

3848 Sacramento St. #2 

San Francisco, CA 94118 

Telephone: (415) 342-0042 

Email: mike@ocefoundation.org

Attorneys for Plaintiffs 

OUR CHILDREN’S EARTH and ECOLOGICAL RIGHTS FOUNDATION 

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 

OUR CHILDREN’S EARTH FOUNDATION, a 

non-profit corporation, and ECOLOGICAL 

RIGHTS FOUNDATION, a non-profit 

corporation, 

 Plaintiffs, 

 v. 

LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY,

 Defendant. 

Civil Case No.: 13-cv-00402-EDL 

STIPULATED REQUEST TO 

EXTEND EXPERT DISCOVERY AND 

RESET THE TRIAL AND RELATED 

DATES; 

[PROPOSED] ORDER 

AS MODIFIED 

Civil Local Rule 6-1(b), 6-2, and 7-12 

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Plaintiffs Ecological Rights Foundation (“ERF”) and Our Children’s Earth Foundation (“OCE”) 

(ERF and OCE are collectively referred to as “Plaintiffs”) and The Board of Trustees of the Leland 

Stanford Junior University (“Stanford” or “Defendant”) (Plaintiffs and Defendant are referred to 

collectively as the “Parties”), by and through their counsel of record, hereby stipulate to extend expert 

discovery and reset the trial date as well as related deadlines as follows: 

WHEREAS, based on the need for additional time to complete fact discovery, the Parties 

anticipated asking this Court for a further extension of time to complete expert discovery in this matter 

and to continue the trial date; 

WHEREAS, throughout January 2015 and February 2015, the Parties encountered significant 

issues concerning the supplemental report and production by Plaintiffs’ expert; 

WHEREAS, the Parties have worked diligently to resolve various issues (including extensive 

meet and confer sessions) and have resolved many of their disputes without further discovery motion 

practice at this time (although Stanford will be raising certain objections before the trial in this matter); 

WHEREAS, the Parties believe the most efficient path forward is to set a mutually agreeable 

schedule to complete expert discovery including the depositions of both experts and to continue the 

current trial schedule; 

WHEREAS, the Parties have agreed on a new schedule that will both allow time for the agreed 

upon expert supplemental discovery as well as accommodate several periods of time when counsel for 

Stanford and/or its expert are not available (because Stanford had set its schedule for other matters 

based on the prior schedule that has now become unworkable); 

WHEREAS, the Parties currently expect that the deposition of Plaintiffs’ expert shall occur on 

April 10, 2015, Stanford shall provide its supplemental expert report on May 1, 2015, and the deposition 

of Defendant’s expert shall occur on May 22, 2015; 

WHEREAS, the existing Case Management and Pretrial Order (ECF Doc. No. 28), as partially 

adjusted by the Court on June 19, 2014 (ECF Doc. No. 63), set various deadlines including the close of 

expert discovery on January 16, 2015, the last day for hearing dispositive motions on March 3, 2015, 

and a bench trial on June 23, 2015;

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WHEREAS, the Court’s clerk has confirmed that moving the trial date in this case to November 

30, 2015 fits the Court’s current calendar; 

NOW, THEREFORE, to ensure all Parties have adequate opportunity to complete expert 

discovery and fully prepare this case for trial, the Parties request that the Court set the following 

schedule: 

EVENT PROPOSED DATES

Deadline to complete expert discovery May 22, 2015 

Deadline to file motion to compel expert 

discovery per Local Rule 37-3 

June 1, 2015 

Dispositive motion filing deadline July 6, 20151

Last day for dispositive motion hearing August 18, 2015 

August 25, 2015 

Deadline to meet & confer regarding pretrial conference issues

October 9, 2015 

Deadline to file joint pre-trial 

statement/disclosure and other materials 

required by paragraph 5.c. in Court’s Case 

Management and Pretrial Order 

October 20, 2015 

 

1 The Parties have agreed upon the following expanded schedule for any dispositive motion: moving 

papers will be filed no later than forty-three (43) days before the hearing date, opposition papers will be 

filed twenty-four (24) days after the moving papers are filed and reply papers will be filed twelve (12) 

days after the opposition is filed. In the case of a hearing set for August 18, 2015, the moving papers 

would be due on July 6, 2015, opposition papers would be filed on July 30, 2015 and reply papers would 

be filed on August 11, 2015. 

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EVENT PROPOSED DATES

Deadline to file objections and other 

materials required by paragraph 5.d in 

Court’s Case Management and Pretrial 

Order 

October 30, 2015 

Pre-Trial Conference November 10, 2015 at 2:00 

p.m. 

Bench Trial November 30, 2015 at 8:30 a.m. 

December 2, 2015 at 8:30 a.m. 

Dated: March 9, 2015. 

Respectfully submitted, 

 

Christopher Sproul 

Environmental Advocates 

Attorney for Plaintiffs Our Children’s Earth Foundation 

and Ecological Rights Foundation 

Dated: March 10, 2015 

PILLSBURY WINTHROP SHAW PITTMAN LLP 

SARAH G. FLANAGAN #70845 

sarah.flanagan@pillsburylaw.com 

Four Embarcadero Center, 22nd Floor 

San Francisco, CA 94111 

Telephone: (415) 983-1000 

Facsimile: (415) 983-1200 

DIANNE L. SWEENEY #187198 

dianne@pillsburylaw.com 

2550 Hanover Street 

Palo Alto, CA 94304-1115 

Telephone: (650) 233-4500 

Facsimile: (650) 233-4545 

 

Dianne L. Sweeney 

Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP 

Attorneys for Defendant The Board of Trustees 

of the Leland Stanford Junior University 

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[Proposed] Order 

PURSUANT TO STIPULATION, IT IS SO ORDERED. AS MODIFIED

Date: March 18, 2015 _______________________________ 

Honorable Elizabeth D. Laporte 

United States Magistrate Judge 

Northern District of California 

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