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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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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

JAIME REYES JR. Deceased, 

THROUGH HIS SUCESSORS IN 

INTEREST MIRELLA REYES and 

JAIME REYES SR.; MIRELLA REYES, 

Individually; and JAIME REYES SR., 

Individually,

Plaintiffs,

vs.

CITY OF FRESNO, a public entity, CITY 

OF FRESNO POLICE CHIEF JERRY 

DYER in his individual and official 

capacities, FRESNO POLICE OFFICER 

JUAN AVILA, FRESNO POLICE 

OFFICER MIGUEL ALVAREZ, 

individually, and DOES 3 through 10, 

Jointly and Severally,

Defendants.

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Case No. 1:13-CV-00418-LJO-SKO

STIPULATION AND ORDER 

CONTINUING STATUS CONFERENCE

ALL PARTIES, THROUGH THEIR RESPECTIVE COUNSEL OF RECORD, HEREBY 

STIPULATE, AND REQUEST THIS COURT TO ORDER, that the case management order be 

amended only as follows: 

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This is a civil rights case involving allegations of wrongful death with 4 named 

Defendants, including 2 involved officers. The parties have exchanged initial disclosures, 

exchanged several rounds of written discovery and produced many documents and records, 

including thousands of pages of records produced to Plaintiffs by Defendants. Plaintiffs have 

deposed Defendant Officer Miguel Alvarez, Defendant Chief Jerry Dyer, two non-party eyewitnesses (Zuniga, Pallaya), and three members of the Fresno Police Department who were 

peripherally involved in the subject incident or in investigating the incident (Gueringer, Ledbetter, 

Beckwith). Plaintiffs have also deposed two Persons Most Knowledgeable within the FPD (Biggs, 

Montejano). Defendants have also deposed the party who reported her gun had been stolen in 

precipitation of the incident (Lopez). Defendant Officer Juan Avila and two other involved FPD 

Officers (Cerda, Roby) have not yet appeared for their depositions and the parties are meeting and 

conferring regarding the re-scheduling of these depositions. Defendants have advised that Cerda 

and Roby will be produced for deposition at another mutually-agreeable date/time, but that there is 

an issue with producing defendant Avila due to his medical disability leave. The parties are also 

meeting and conferring regarding dates for the depositions of Plaintiffs, Plaintiffs’ daughter (a 

percipient witness to incident-related events), and the incident medical examiner.

The parties have extensively met and conferred regarding document production in response 

to Plaintiffs' document requests of June 7, 2013 and June 10, 2014, as well as regarding plaintiffs’ 

contentions about Defendants' confidentiality designations, and Defendants have supplemented 

their responses/production on four occasions without any Court intervention However, there are 

currently several outstanding discovery issues on which the parties have not yet resolved their 

disputes, and for which Plaintiffs intend to request intervention from this Court. 

After a recent stipulated further continuance, non-expert discovery is set to close on 

September 23, 2014. Due to certain extenuating circumstances, Defendants' counsel has requested 

that Plaintiffs refrain from the discovery letters required by this Court’s order until after July 28, 

2014. Plaintiffs, therefore, anticipate submitting their Discovery Dispute Summaries to this Court 

during the week of July 28, 2014.

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This Court recently continued the settlement conference in this case to November 18, 

2014.

Other than the present discovery disputes between the parties, the parties are not aware of

any new issues that will need to be addressed at the currently scheduled July 30, 2014 Case 

Management Conference. Because of this, the parties stipulate to and request that this Court 

continue by at least 90 days the Case Management Conference currently scheduled for July 30, 

2014. This is the first request for such a continuance.

Therefore, the parties respectfully request that this Court either vacate or continue the 

currently scheduled Case Management Conference in this matter as follows:

Hearing Description Current Date Proposed Modified Date

Case Management Conference July 30, 2014 November 5, 2014, or some 

other date preferred by the 

Court

Settlement Conference November 18, 2014 No change

Pretrial Conference February 24, 2015 No change

Trial March 24, 2015 No change

SO STIPULATED:

DATED: July 21, 2014 HADDAD & SHERWIN

/s/ Michael J. Haddad*

MICHAEL J. HADDAD

Attorneys for Plaintiffs JAIME REYES, JR., 

MIRELLA REYES and JAIME REYES, SR.

Dated: July 21, 2014 MANNING & KASS,

ELLROD, RAMIREZ, TRESTER, LLP

 /s/ Mildred K. O’Linn

MILDRED K. O’LINN

TONY M. SAIN

Attorneys for Defendants

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*Mr. Haddad and Ms. O’Linn provided their consent that this document be electronically filed.

ORDER

The Status Conference currently scheduled for July 30, 2014, was set at the parties’ request 

to allow the parties to inform the Court of Defendant Officer Avila’s status, of any conflicts with 

the dates set forth in the Scheduling Order, and of the effect of any scheduling conflicts on the 

litigation of this matter. See Doc. 44. Pursuant to the parties’ Stipulation, and good cause 

appearing, IT IS HEREBY ORDERED that the Status Conference scheduled for July 30, 2014, is 

CONTINUED to November 6, 2014, at 9:45 a.m. in Courtroom 7. 

IT IS SO ORDERED.

Dated: July 24, 2014 /s/ Sheila K. Oberto 

UNITED STATES MAGISTRATE JUDGE

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