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Nature of Suit Code: 893
Nature of Suit: Environmental Matters
Cause of Action: 28:2201 Constitutionality of State Statute(s)

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 STIP. TO FURTHER MODIFY DISCOVERY DATE 

(NORTHERN, WESTERN & SOUTHERN PLUME TRIAL); 

ORDER; CASE NO. CIV-S-00-2441 FCD KJM 

FOLGER LEVIN & KAHN LLP

Margaret R. Dollbaum (SB# 093725) 

Jolie-Anne S. Ansley (SB# 221526) 

Embarcadero Center West 

275 Battery Street, 23rd Floor 

San Francisco, CA 94111 

Telephone: (415) 986-2800 

Facsimile: (415) 986-2827 

D. Stephen Schwabauer (SB# 173567) 

City Attorney 

City of Lodi, California 

221 West Pine Street 

Lodi, CA 95240 

Telephone: (209) 333-6701 

Facsimile: (209) 333-6807 

KRONICK, MOSKOVITZ, TIEDEMANN & GIRARD

Daniel J. O’Hanlon (SB# 122380) 

Robert E. Murphy (SB# 040981) 

A Professional Corporation 

400 Capitol Mall, 27th Floor 

Sacramento, CA 95814-4416 

Telephone: (916) 321-4500 

Facsimile: (916) 321-4555 

Attorneys for Plaintiff 

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 

EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 

CITY OF LODI, CALIFORNIA, 

Plaintiff, 

v. 

M&P INVESTMENTS, et al., 

Defendants. 

Case No. CIV-S-00-2441 FCD KJM 

STIPULATION TO FURTHER MODIFY 

THE DISCOVERY COMPLETION 

DATE ESTABLISHED IN THE 

COURT’S FOURTH AMENDED 

SCHEDULING ORDER (NORTHERN, 

WESTERN & SOUTHERN PLUME 

TRIAL); ORDER 

AND RELATED CROSS-CLAIMS, 

COUNTERCLAIMS, THIRD-PARTY 

CLAIMS AND FOURTH-PARTY CLAIMS. 

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STIP. TO FURTHER MODIFY DISCOVERY DATE 

(NORTHERN, WESTERN & SOUTHERN PLUME TRIAL); 

ORDER; CASE NO. CIV-S-00-2441 FCD KJM 

WHEREAS, on January 26, 2005, the Court issued its Fourth Amended Scheduling Order 

for the Northern, Western, & Southern Plume Trial establishing discovery and pre-trial deadlines, 

including a discovery completion date, which was subsequently modified by Order of this Court 

on August 8, 2006, on December 14, 2006, and on September 7, 2007. 

WHEREAS, Plaintiff City of Lodi is has finalized settlements with all of the Southern 

Plume Defendants. 

WHEREAS, certain Northern Plume Defendants (the Gundershaug parties; Lustre-Cal 

Nameplate Corporation; the Ackel parties; Wright Motors; the Ehlers parties; the Weil Motors 

parties; Elizabeth Benson, as Trustee of the Nancy Lee Benson Revocable Living Trust; and Lodi 

Chrome) and the City of Lodi have concluded joint investigation efforts of the Northern Plume 

area. 

WHEREAS, the City of Lodi and Northern Plume Defendants have been engaged in 

ongoing mediations under the auspices of Court-appointed mediator Lester J. Levy of JAMS. As 

a result of these mediations, the City has finalized settlement agreements with many of the 

Northern Plume Defendants, and has reached tentative settlements with others. The City believes 

it will soon achieve a near-global settlement of the Northern Plume and will shortly submit a 

motion for approval of settlements for at least 14 groups of parties. 

WHEREAS, the City of Lodi and certain South Central/Western Plume defendants 

(the Newfield parties, the Lewis parties, the Norge parties, the Service Laundry parties, Harman 

Managers Investment Ltd., R. Spiekerman, the Bollinger parties, and the Bader parties) have 

completed joint investigation efforts of the South Central/Western Plume area. 

WHEREAS, the City of Lodi and South Central/Western Plume Defendants have been 

engaged in ongoing mediations under the auspices of Court-appointed mediator Lester J. Levy of 

JAMS. As a result of these mediations, the City has finalized settlements with certain South 

Central/Western Plume Defendants, and has reached tentative settlement with others. 

WHEREAS, the City propounded special interrogatories and requests for production of 

documents upon the United Dry Cleaners Defendants (the Bookin, Froemke, Houston, Newfield, 

Odland, and Spraggins Defendants) on February 6, 2008. The last day for the United Dry 

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STIP. TO FURTHER MODIFY DISCOVERY DATE 

(NORTHERN, WESTERN & SOUTHERN PLUME TRIAL); 

ORDER; CASE NO. CIV-S-00-2441 FCD KJM 

Cleaners Defendants to respond to the City’s discovery requests is March 7, 2008. United Dry 

Cleaners Defendants have requested an extension of this deadline by at least two weeks. 

WHEREAS, to allow for the completion of discovery between the United Dry Cleaners 

parties and the City, and to avoid undue expense by complying with the discovery completion 

deadline established in the Court’s Fourth Amended Scheduling Order (Northern, Western & 

Southern Plume Trial), the Parties now seek an order pursuant to Federal Rule of Civil 

Procedure 16(b) modifying and extending the discovery deadline set forth within the Fourth 

Amended Scheduling Order, as previously modified, for four weeks. The Parties propose the 

schedule be modified as follows: 

 Current Date Proposed Date

Discovery Completed March 7, 2008 April 4, 2008 

THEREFORE, IT IS HEREBY STIPULATED by and between the Parties hereto that 

the discovery completion deadline established by the Court in the Fourth Amended Scheduling 

Order (Northern, Western & Southern Plume Trial) may be further modified as set forth above. 

DATED: March ____, 2008 FOLGER LEVIN & KAHN LLP 

/s/ Margaret R. Dollbaum 

Margaret R. Dollbaum 

Attorneys for Plaintiff City of Lodi 

DATED: March ____, 2008 ISOLA & RUIZ, LLP 

/s/ F. Doyle Graham 

F. DOYLE GRAHAM 

Attorneys for Jerome Bookin, Hazel Houston, Rand Jeffrey 

Spraggins and Mildred Phyllis Spraggins, Jan Odland and 

Carol Odland, Virgil Froemke and Marjorie Froemke, Lodi 

Dodge Chrysler Plymouth, Inc., Weil Family Trust, Estate 

of Jack M. Weil, Deceased, Wright Motors, Inc., Ehlers 

Auto, Theodore H. Rosen (d/b/a Brackett’s Garage), Joseph 

K. Newfield and Judith L. Newfield, Ehlers Holding, Inc. 

(d/b/a Loren Ehlers Auto Service), Loren Ehlers and 

Mercedes Ehlers, Tokay Foundry Corp., a dissolved 

California corporation, and Hertha Katzakian, Phil 

Katzakian, and Lodi Printing Co. 

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STIP. TO FURTHER MODIFY DISCOVERY DATE 

(NORTHERN, WESTERN & SOUTHERN PLUME TRIAL); 

ORDER; CASE NO. CIV-S-00-2441 FCD KJM 

O R D E R 

Based on the foregoing Stipulation, and good cause existing therefore, IT IS HEREBY 

ORDERED THAT, the discovery completion date set forth in the Fourth Amended Scheduling 

Order (Northern, Western & Southern Plume Trial) is modified to the date listed above in the 

Stipulation to Further Modify the Discovery Completion Date Established in the Court’s Fourth 

Amended Scheduling Order (Northern, Western & Southern Plume Trial). 

IT IS SO ORDERED. 

DATED: March 7, 2008 

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