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Nature of Suit Code: 950
Nature of Suit: Contitutionality of State Statutes
Cause of Action: 28:1331 Fed. Question

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Stipulation & [Proposed] Order to Permit Expert Depositions No. 1:04-CV-06663-AWI-LJO

BILL LOCKYER

Attorney General of the State of California

MARY E. HACKENBRACHT 

Senior Assistant Attorney General 

ELLEN M. PETER, State Bar No. 72234

Supervising Deputy Attorney General

KATHLEEN KENEALY, State Bar No. 212289

CARYN L. CRAIG, State Bar No. 185621

JAN G. ZABRISKIE, State Bar No. 117049

Deputy Attorneys General

1300 "I" Street, Suite 125

P.O. Box 944255

Sacramento, CA 94244-2550

Telephone: (916) 327-5484

Fax: (916) 327-2319

MARC N. MELNICK, State Bar No. 168187

GAVIN G. McCABE, State Bar No. 130864

MARK W. POOLE, State Bar No. 194520

Deputy Attorneys General

1515 Clay Street, 20th Floor

P.O. Box 70550

Oakland, CA 94612-0550

Attorneys for Defendant Catherine E. Witherspoon

Additional Counsel on Next Page

IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA --- FRESNO DIVISION

CENTRAL VALLEY CHRYSLER-JEEP,

INC.; et al.,

Plaintiffs,

v.

CATHERINE E. WITHERSPOON,

Defendant.

ASSOCIATION OF INTERNATIONAL

AUTOMOBILE MANUFACTURERS,

 Plaintiff-Intervenor,

SIERRA CLUB, NATURAL RESOURCES

DEFENSE COUNCIL, ENVIRONMENTAL

DEFENSE, BLUEWATER NETWORK,

GLOBAL EXCHANGE and RAINFOREST

ACTION NETWORK, 

Defendant-Intervenors.

NO. 1:04-CV-06663-AWI-LJO

STIPULATION AND ORDER TO

PERMIT THE DEPOSITION OF

CERTAIN EXPERT WITNESSES TO

TAKE PLACE AFTER 11/10/06

DEADLINE 

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MATTHEW F. PAWA (pro hac vice)

BENJAMIN KRASS (pro hac vice)

LAW OFFICES OF MATTHEW F. PAWA, P.C.

1280 Centre Street, Suite 230

Newton Centre, MA 02459

Tel: (617) 641-9550

Fax: (617) 641-9551

DAVID BOOKBINDER (pro hac vice)

SIERRA CLUB

408 C Street, NE

Washington, DC 20002

Tel: (202) 548-4598

Fax: (202) 547-6009

Attorneys for Defendant-Intervenors Sierra Club, Natural

Resources Defense Council, and Environmental Defense

DANIELLE R. FUGERE, State Bar No. 160873

BLUEWATER NETWORK

311 California Street, Suite 510

San Francisco, CA 94104

Tel: (415) 544-0790 x15

Fax: (415) 544-0796

Attorneys for Defendant-Intervenors Bluewater Network,

Global Exchange, and Rainforest Action Network

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The Parties have met and conferred and ask the Court to modify the Scheduling Order in

accordance with the stipulation set forth herein. 

WHEREAS, pursuant to the Stipulation and Order to Modify Scheduling Order in this

matter, signed on November 9, 2006, (Docket Doc. #435), the Friday, November 10, 2006

deadline, contained in the Court’s scheduling order (Docket Doc. #297), for the completion of

the noticed expert witnesses depositions was modified to permit the completion of those

depositions on or before December 8, 2006;

WHEREAS, the Parties have taken the expert depositions of, among others, Patrick J.

Michaels, James E. Hansen and Laurence Kalkstein;

WHEREAS, the Parties sought additional time for and relevant documents related to the

depositions of Patrick J. Michaels, James E. Hansen and Laurence Kalkstein;

WHEREAS, despite counsels’ best efforts, the depositions could not be reasonably

completed either as noticed or on another date before the November 10, 2006 expert witness cutoff deadline. These expert witness depositions are as follows: Defendants’ continued deposition

of Patrick J. Michaels, Plaintiffs’ continued deposition of James E. Hansen, and Plaintiffs’

continued deposition of Laurence Kalkstein;

WHEREAS, counsel for the Parties have agreed to the continuation of expert depositions

as follows: (i) Defendants shall depose Patrick Michaels for four(4) additional hours of on-therecord time; (ii) Plaintiffs shall depose James E. Hansen for such a period of time as to make the

total of on-the-record time allowed for the entire depositions of Dr. Michaels and Dr. Hansen

equivalent; and (iii) Plaintiffs shall depose Dr. Kalkstein for one (1) hour solely for the purposes

of discussing his consulting business, clients and revenues received from those clients over the

last five (5) years; 

WHEREAS, counsel for the Parties have agreed to produce copies of the following

documents in advance of Dr. Michaels’ and Dr. Kalkstein’s depositions: (i) retainer agreement(s)

for this case; (ii) time records and invoices for this case; and (iii) a list of consulting clients and

revenues received from those clients over the last five (5) years;

WHEREAS, the Parties seek permission of the Court to set these specific depositions

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after the November 10, 2006 deadline, but no later than December 8, 2006;

WHEREAS, the Parties seek permission to notice any motions to compel with respect to

these specific three (3) expert depositions within five (5) days of the agreed upon date for the

respective depositions;

Plaintiff Central Valley Chrysler-Jeep, Inc. and all of the other named plaintiffs in this

action, plaintiff-intervenor Association of International Automobile Manufacturers, defendant

Catherine E. Witherspoon and defendant-intervenors Sierra Club, Natural Resources Defense

Council, and Environmental Defense (Parties) each STIPULATE as follows and seek the Court’s

approval of the following provisions:

1. The Friday, November 10, 2006 deadline, contained in the Court’s scheduling

order (Docket Doc. # 297), for the completion of the expert witness depositions is modified to

allow for the completion of Defendants’ continued deposition of Patrick Michaels,

Plaintiffs’continued deposition of James Hansen, and Plaintiffs’ continued deposition of

Laurence Kalkstein, but no later than December 8, 2006; 

2. Should any party seek to make a discovery motion based upon the expert witness

deposition of Patrick Michaels, James Hansen and/or Laurence Kalkstein, that motion shall be

filed within five (5) days of the date of that specific expert;

3. This stipulation is not a waiver of the expert discovery cut-off, nor does it express

a general agreement to hold depositions after the expert discovery cut-off.

IT IS SO STIPULATED. 

Dated: November 13, 2006 BILL LOCKYER

Attorney General of the State of California

/s/ Ellen M. Peter (as authorized on November 13, 2006)

ELLEN M. PETER

Supervising Deputy Attorney General

Attorneys for Defendant

Dated: November 13, 2006 LAW OFFICES OF MATTHEW F. PAWA, P.C.

/s/ Matthew F. Pawa

MATTHEW F. PAWA

Attorneys for Defendant-Intervenors Sierra Club, Natural

Resources Defense Council and Environmental Defense

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Dated: November 13, 2006 KIRKLAND & ELLIS, LLP

/s/ Andrew B. Clubok (as authorized on November 13,

2006)

ANDREW B. CLUBOK

Attorneys for All Plaintiffs

Dated: November 13, 2006 GIBSON & DUNN, P.C.

/s/ Charles Haake (as authorized on November 13, 2006)

CHARLES HAAKE

Attorneys for Plaintiff-Intervenor Association of

International Automobile Manufacturers

IT IS SO ORDERED.

Dated: November 14, 2006 /s/ Lawrence J. O'Neill 

b9ed48 UNITED STATES MAGISTRATE JUDGE

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