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Nature of Suit Code: 442
Nature of Suit: Civil Rights Employment
Cause of Action: 28:1332 Diversity-Employment Discrimination

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STIPULATION AND [PROPOSED] ORDER REGARDING

MOTION TO EXCLUDE EXPERTS 

Counsel listed on next page 

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 

SAN JOSE DIVISION 

DAVID HALTERMAN, 

Plaintiff, 

v.

LEGATO SOFTWARE, a Division of EMC 

Corporation; EMC CORPORATION, dba 

EMC PERIPHERALS, INC., and DOES 1-X, 

Defendants.

Case No. C04-2660 JW PT 

STIPULATION AND [PROPOSED] 

ORDER REGARDING EXPERT 

WITNESSES PURSUANT TO 

CIV. L.R. 6-2(a) 

U

NITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

IT IS SO ORDERED

Judge James Ware

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KATHRYN BURKETT DICKSON (State Bar No. 70636) 

DICKSON – ROSS LLP 

1970 Broadway, Suite 1045 

Oakland, California 94612 

Telephone: (510) 268-1999 

Facsimile: (510) 268-3627 

DAVID ANGLE (admitted Pro Hac Vice)

ANGLE & ANGLE LLC 

1920 13th Street, Suite C 

Boulder, Colorado 80302 

Telephone: (303) 443-2200 

Facsimile: (303) 443-2229 

Attorneys for Plaintiff 

David Halterman 

GARY R. SINISCALCO (State Bar No. 64770) 

MICHAEL D. WEIL (State Bar No. 209056) 

ORRICK, HERRINGTON & SUTCLIFFE LLP 

The Orrick Building 

405 Howard Street

San Francisco, California 94105-2669 

Telephone: 415-773-5700 

Facsimile: 415-773-5759 

LYNNE C. HERMLE (State Bar No. 99779) 

ORRICK, HERRINGTON & SUTCLIFFE LLP 

1000 Marsh Road 

Menlo Park, California 94025-1021 

Telephone: 650-614-7400 

Facsimile: 650-614-7401 

LEANNE FITZGERALD (admitted Pro Hac Vice)

EMC CORPORATION 

2350 West El Camino Real 

Mountain View, CA 94040 

Attorneys for Defendant 

EMC Corporation 

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MOTION TO EXCLUDE EXPERTS 

PURSUANT TO LOCAL RULE 6-2(a), Plaintiff David Halterman and Defendant 

EMC Corporation (collectively, “the parties”) stipulate as follows: 

WHEREAS, the parties timely disclosed experts and exchanged reports on July 29, 

2005 pursuant to the Court’s July 8, 2005 order (except for mental health experts and reports, 

which are covered by the Court’s June 9, 2005 order);

WHEREAS, the parties timely disclosed mental health expert reports on 

September 16, 2005, pursuant to the Court's June 9, 2005 order and the parties’ informal 

agreement to postpone the exchange of mental health expert reports until September 16, 2005; 

WHEREAS, pursuant to stipulation, on August 15, 2005, the Court continued the 

last day for a hearing on either party’s motion to exclude expert testimony from August 29, 2005 

until November 14, 2005 (making the last day to file a motion to exclude October 10, 2005); 

WHEREAS, EMC took the depositions of plaintiff's damages and accounting 

experts on September 13 and 14, 2005; 

WHEREAS, the parties are cooperating in scheduling the depositions for four 

additional experts; 

WHEREAS, plaintiff's counsel Kathryn Dickson and defendant's counsel Lynne 

Hermle are both preparing for the same (but unrelated) trial in the Superior Court for the County 

of San Mateo in Zheng v. Siebel Systems, Inc., Case No. 435601, before Judge Marie S. Weiner; 

WHEREAS, the Zheng trial is scheduled to commence on September 27, 2005 and 

continue through October 14, 2005; 

WHEREAS, plaintiff's counsel David Angle is getting married in early October 

2005 and will be out of his office on vacation for his wedding and honeymoon from October 5, 

2005 through October 16, 2005; 

WHEREAS, the parties have scheduled a private mediation on October 14, 2005; 

WHEREAS, given vacation schedules of experts and attorneys and trial calendars 

of both parties’ attorneys, (a) there is insufficient time between the date for disclosure of expert 

reports and rebuttal reports and the last day for a hearing on a motion to exclude expert testimony, 

and (b) there is insufficient time for the parties to complete expert discovery before the expert 

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discovery cutoff;

WHEREAS, the parties have sought three prior modifications to the schedule for 

the case, which were approved by the Court on June 9, 2005, July 8, 2005 and August 15, 2005, 

respectively;

WHEREAS, plaintiff sought a modification of the schedule to continue the hearing 

date for EMC's motion for summary judgment until December 5, 2005, which was approved by 

the Court on September 1, 2005; 

IT IS HEREBY STIPULATED,

(a) the last day for hearing on a motion to exclude an expert witness 

shall be continued from November 4, 2005 to December 19, 2005; and 

(b) the close of discovery of expert witnesses only, both non-mental 

health and mental health and experts, shall be continued from October 28, 2005 until November 

11, 2005.

Dated: September 20, 2005 Respectfully submitted, 

KATHRYN BURKETT DICKSON 

DICKSON – ROSS LLP 

DAVID ANGLE 

ANGLE & ANGLE LLC 

By: /s/ 

Kathryn Burkett Dickson 

Attorneys for Plaintiff David Halterman 

Dated: September 20, 2005 GARY R. SINISCALCO 

LYNNE C. HERMLE 

MICHAEL D. WEIL 

ORRICK, HERRINGTON & SUTCLIFFE LLP 

LEANNE FITZGERALD 

EMC CORPORATION 

By: /s/ 

Michael D. Weil 

Attorneys for Defendant EMC Corporation 

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I hereby attest that I have on file all holograph signatures for any signatures indicated by a 

“conformed” signature (/s/) within this efiled document. 

By: /s/ 

Michael D. Weil 

Attorneys for Defendant EMC Corporation. 

PURSUANT TO STIPULATION, IT IS SO ORDERED: 

Dated:

_____________________________________

The Honorable James Ware 

United States District Judge 

/s/ James Ware

9/21/05

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