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Nature of Suit Code: 791
Nature of Suit: Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA)
Cause of Action: 29:1132 E.R.I.S.A.: Employee Benefits

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Muriel B. Kaplan, Esq. (SBN 124607) 

Michele R. Stafford, Esq. (SBN 172509) 

SALTZMAN & JOHNSON LAW CORPORATION 

120 Howard Street, Suite 520 

San Francisco, CA 94105 

(415) 882-7900 

(415) 882-9287 – Facsimile 

mkaplan@sjlawcorp.com 

mstafford@sjlawcorp.com 

Attorneys for Plaintiffs 

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 

FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 

GIL CROSTHWAITE, et al., as Trustees of the 

OPERATING ENGNEERS HEALTH AND 

WELFARE TRUST FUND FOR NORTHERN 

CALIFORNIA; et al., 

Plaintiffs, 

v. 

GOLDEN HILLS CONTRACTORS, INC., and 

DONALD EDWARD WILSON, et al. 

Defendants. 

Case No.: C06-7779 JSW 

STIPULATION and REQUEST FOR 

CONTINUANCE OF CASE 

MANAGEMENT CONFERENCE 

Date: December 21, 2007 

Time: 1:30 p.m. 

Location: 450 Golden Gate Avenue 

 San Francisco, California 

Courtroom: 2, 17th Floor 

Judge: The Honorable Jeffrey S. White 

 The parties herein hereby stipulate and respectfully request a Continuance of the Case 

Management Conference currently on calendar for December 21, 2007, for the following reasons: 

 1. Counsel for Plaintiffs substituted into this action on or about June 6, 2007, and 

thereafter reviewed the file of prior counsel to determine the content and status of the claims. 

Plaintiffs’ counsel contacted defendants Golden Gate Contractors, Inc. and its principal, Donald 

Wilson, neither of whom had answered the complaint, to determine their position as to the claims 

made by Plaintiffs. 

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AND ORDER THEREON

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2. Defendants represented that they would like to resolve the matter, but in 

determining the amounts remaining in their claim, Plaintiffs found there was potentially an 

additional claimant Trust Fund not currently a plaintiff, with separate counsel. Once Plaintiffs 

determined that they will not seek leave to amend their complaint in this action to include an 

additional plaintiff, demand for payment was made on those Defendants, who refused payment, 

notwithstanding their prior representation. 

3. The remaining amounts owed have recently been recalculated by Plaintiffs, 

following payment by and dismissal of former defendant Travelers Surety and Casualty Company 

of America, and the determination of no further amendment to the complaint. 

4. Plaintiffs therefore contacted counsel for defendant Surety Company of the Pacific, 

to determine its resulting position of payment on the bond of the remaining claim. That Defendant 

reasonably requested an accounting of the balance of the claim, which Plaintiffs will provide. 

5. If payment is promptly made on the bond, Plaintiffs will dismiss defendant Surety 

Company of the Pacific from this action, and file their Motion for Default Judgment for the 

amounts due in excess of the bond, against Golden Hills and its principal. In the unlikely event 

that the bond payment is not promptly made upon Plaintiffs’ provision of the requested 

accounting, Plaintiffs will add to their motion a Motion for Summary Judgment against Surety 

Company of the Pacific. 

 4. Plaintiffs and Surety Company of the Pacific therefore stipulate and respectfully 

request that the Case Management Conference, currently scheduled for December 21 2007, be 

continued for approximately 60-90 days to allow provision and review of the accounting, and for 

Plaintiffs to resolve the remaining claim by motion. 

 5. It is furthermore requested that all previously set deadlines and dates related to this 

case remain vacated to allow this matter to proceed as outlined above. 

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 SALTZMAN & JOHNSON LAW CORPORATION 

 Dated: December 14, 2007 By: _________________/s/_________________ 

 Muriel B. Kaplan 

 Attorneys for Plaintiffs 

 LAW OFFICES OF GEISSLER & NIMOY 

 Dated: December ___, 2007 By:________________/s/___________________ 

 Steven S. Nimoy 

 Attorneys for Surety Company of the Pacific 

IT IS SO ORDERED. 

 The currently set Case Management Conference is hereby continued to 

__________________________ at __________________, and all previously set deadlines and 

dates related to this case are vacated, to be reset at that Conference. 

Dated:_________________________ ______________________________________ 

 THE HONORABLE JEFFREY S. WHITE 

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December 17, 2007 March 28, 2008 1:30 p.m.

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