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Nature of Suit Code: 791
Nature of Suit: Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA)
Cause of Action: 28:1132 E.R.I.S.A.

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JEFFER, MANGELS, BUTLER & MARMARO LLP

ROBERT E. MANGELS (Bar No. 48291)

SUSAN ALLISON (Bar No. 133448)

ZOEY KOHN (Bar No. 235333)

1900 Avenue of the Stars, Seventh Floor

Los Angeles, California 90067-4308

Telephone: (310) 203-8080

Facsimile: (310) 203-0567

Attorneys for Defendant and Third-Party Plaintiff

TOWERS, PERRIN, FORSTER & CROSBY, INC.

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

THOMAS A. PAULSEN, et al.

Plaintiffs,

v.

CNF, INC., et al.

Defendants.

TOWERS, PERRIN, FORSTER & 

CROSBY, INC.

Third-Party Plaintiff,

v.

CNF INC., ADMINISTRATIVE 

COMMITTEE OF THE CONSOLIDATED 

FREIGHTWAYS CORPORATION PENSION 

PLAN, STEPHEN D. RICHARDS, JAMES R. 

TENER, and ROBERT E. WRIGHTSON,

Third-Party Defendants.

CASE NO. C 03-03960 JW (EAI)

STIPULATION REGARDING MOTIONS 

TO DISMISS TOWERS, PERRIN,

FORSTER & CROSBY, INC.'S THIRDPARTY COMPLAINT AND [PROPOSED]

ORDER THEREON

Fourth Am. Compl. Filed: Oct. 28, 2005

Third-Party Compl. Filed: Nov. 15, 2005

Trial Date: None Set

Defendant/Third-Party Plaintiff Towers, Perrin, Forster & Crosby, Inc. ("Towers 

Perrin"), and Third-Party Defendants CNF Inc. ("CNF") and Administrative Committee of the 

Consolidated Freightways Corporation Pension Plan, Stephen D. Richards, James R. Tener, and 

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Robert E. Wrightson (the "Committee Third-Party Defendants"), through their counsel of record, 

stipulate as follows:

1. On January 28, 2005, Plaintiffs filed their Third Amended Complaint in this 

action. Towers Perrin timely filed an Answer to the Third Amended Complaint on June 8, 2005, 

and on June 15, 2005, filed an Amended Answer to the Third Amended Complaint.

2. On June 14, 2005, Towers Perrin filed a Third-Party Complaint against CNF 

and the Committee Third-Party Defendants, alleging claims against those third-party defendants for 

equitable indemnity under California law, arising out of and referencing the allegations of Plaintiffs'

Third Amended Complaint (the "Original Third-Party Complaint").

3. On August 15, 2005, CNF filed a Motion to Dismiss the Original Third-Party

Complaint, pursuant to FRCP 12(b)(6) (the "CNF Motion to Dismiss"); and on August 22, 2005, the 

Committee Third-Party Defendants filed a Motion to Dismiss the Original Third-Party Complaint

pursuant to FRCP 12(b)(6) (the "Committee Motion to Dismiss").

4. The CNF Motion to Dismiss and the Committee Motion to Dismiss were 

fully briefed and argued before this Court on October 3, 2005, at which time they were taken under 

submission. As of the date of the parties' submission of this Stipulation, the Court has not yet ruled 

on either the CNF Motion to Dismiss or the Committee Motion to Dismiss. 

5. On October 28, 2005, Plaintiffs filed and served a Fourth Amended 

Complaint in this action. Because the Fourth Amended Complaint superseded the Third Amended 

Complaint, Towers Perrin filed a new Third-Party Complaint on November 15, 2005, arising out of 

and referencing the allegations of the Fourth Amended Complaint (the "New Third-Party

Complaint"). The allegations against CNF and the Committee Third-Party Defendants alleged in 

the New Third-Party Complaint are substantively identical to those in the now-superseded Original 

Third Party Complaint.

6. In order to avoid unnecessary and duplicative motion practice, Towers Perrin, 

on the one hand, and CNF and the Committee Third-Party Defendants, on the other hand, hereby

stipulate and agree as follows:

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A. CNF and the Committee Third-Party Defendants hereby waive service of the 

New Third-Party Complaint, which shall be deemed to have been personally served on each of them

as of November 28, 2005.

B. The CNF Motion to Dismiss and the Committee Motion to Dismiss, both 

taken under submission by the Court on October 3, 2005, shall be deemed to be motions to dismiss 

the equitable indemnity claims alleged in the New Third-Party Complaint.

C. Towers Perrin, on the one hand, and CNF and the Committee Third-Party

Defendants, and each of them, request that the Court proceed to rule on the CNF Motion to Dismiss 

and the Committee Motion to Dismiss, with the understanding and agreement that the Court's 

rulings on those motions shall be deemed to apply in all respects to the New Third-Party Complaint.

DATED: November 29, 2005 JEFFER, MANGELS, BUTLER & MARMARO LLP

ROBERT E. MANGELS

SUSAN ALLISON

ZOEY KOHN

By: /s/ Susan Allison

SUSAN ALLISON

Attorneys for Defendant and Third-Party Plaintiff

TOWERS, PERRIN, FORSTER & CROSBY, INC.

DATED: November 29, 2005 THELEN REID & PRIEST LLP

DAVID L. BACON

By: /s/ David L. Bacon

DAVID L. BACON

Attorneys for Third-Party Defendant CNF INC.

DATED: November 29, 2005 O'MELVENY & MYERS LLP

GARY S. TELL

GEORGE A. RILEY

By: /s/ Gary S. Tell

GARY S. TELL

Attorneys for Third-Party Defendants

ADMINISTRATIVE COMMITTEE OF THE 

CONSOLIDATED FREIGHTWAYS CORPORATION

PENSION PLAN, STEPHEN D. RICHARDS, JAMES 

R. TENER, and ROBERT E. WRIGHTSON

PURSUANT TO STIPULATION, IT IS SO ORDERED.

Dated:_________________________ __________________________________

UNITED STATES DISTRICT JUDGE

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Nov. 30, 2005

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