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Nature of Suit Code: 890
Nature of Suit: Other Statutory Actions
Cause of Action: 28:1345 Property Damage

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Stipulation and Order Re Discovery Motions 

BENJAMIN B. WAGNER 

United States Attorney 

KELLI L. TAYLOR 

TODD A. PICKLES 

Assistant United States Attorneys 

United States Courthouse 

501 “I” Street, Suite 10-100 

Sacramento, California 95814 

Telephone: (916) 554-2700 

Facsimile: (916) 554-2900 

Of Counsel: 

JEFF MOULTON 

Regional Attorney 

RACHEL A. BIRKEY 

Attorney 

Office of the General Counsel 

United States Department of Agriculture 

33 New Montgomery Street, 17th Floor 

San Francisco, California 94105 

Telephone: (415) 744-3011 

Facsimile: (415) 744-3170 

Attorneys for the United States of America 

DOWNEY BRAND LLP 

WILLIAM R. WARNE (Bar No. 141280) 

ANNIE S. AMARAL (Bar No. 238189) 

MICHAEL SCHAPS (Bar No. 247423) 

621 Capitol Mall, 18th Floor 

Sacramento, CA 95814-4731 

Telephone: (916) 444-1000 

Facsimile: (916) 444-2100 

bwarne@downeybrand.com 

aamaral@downeybrand.com 

mschaps@downeybrand.com 

Attorneys for Defendant 

SIERRA PACIFIC INDUSTRIES 

IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 

EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 

THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, 

 Plaintiff, 

v. 

SIERRA PACIFIC INDUSTRIES, et al., 

 Defendants. 

Case No. 2:09-cv-02445-JAM-EFB 

STIPULATION AND ORDER SETTING 

HEARINGS AND SCHEDULE ON THE 

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA’S AND 

SIERRA PACIFIC INDUSTRIES’ 

DISCOVERY MOTIONS 

AND RELATED CROSS-ACTIONS. 

 

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Stipulation and Order Re Discovery Motions 

Plaintiff the United States of America and Defendant Sierra Pacific Industries (“SPI”), through 

their respective counsel, hereby submit the following stipulation and proposed order setting the schedule 

and hearings on the parties’ discovery motions. 

1. The United States of America and SPI have each filed a discovery motion currently 

pending before the Court. The United States’s Motion for a Protective Order [Docket No. 68] is presently 

set to be heard on September 15, 2010, and SPI’s Discovery Motion [Docket No. 69] is presently set to be 

heard on September 22, 2010. 

2. In the interests of judicial efficiency, the United States and SPI agree that the hearing on 

the United States’s motion shall be continued from September 15 to September 22 to coincide with the 

hearing on SPI’s motion. 

 IT IS SO STIPULATED. 

DATED: August 31, 2010 BENJAMIN B. WAGNER 

United States Attorney 

By: /s/ Todd A. Pickles 

TODD A. PICKLES 

Assistant U.S. Attorneys 

Attorneys for Plaintiff, 

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA 

DATED: August 31, 2010 DOWNEY BRAND LLP 

By: /s/ William R. Warne

WILLIAM R. WARNE 

Attorney for Defendant, 

SIERRA PACIFIC INDUSTRIES 

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Stipulation and Order Re Discovery Motions 

ORDER 

 This matter came before the Court on the parties’ Stipulation to Set the Hearings and Schedule on 

the United States of America’s and Sierra Pacific Industries’ Discovery Motions. For the reasons stated 

in the Stipulation and for good cause showing, the Court ADOPTS the Stipulation and GRANTS the 

relief requested therein. 

 Accordingly, IT IS HEREBY ORDERED THAT the United States of America’s Motion for a 

Protective Order [Docket No. 68] and Sierra Pacific Industries’ Discovery Motion [Docket No. 69] shall 

be heard on September 22, 2010 at 10:00 a.m. in Courtroom 24 before the undersigned. 

IT IS SO ORDERED. 

DATED: September 1, 2010 

By: 

Honorable Edmund F. Brennan 

United States Magistrate Judge 

Eastern District of California 

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