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Nature of Suit Code: 440
Nature of Suit: Other Civil Rights
Cause of Action: 28:1331 Federal Question: Other Civil Rights

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Case No. 2:13-CV-01816-KJM-DAD: STIPULATION AND ORDER RE: TRIAL VIDEO DEPOSITION OF KEVIN STONE, M.D. 1

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MICHAEL J. HADDAD (State Bar No. 189114) 

JULIA SHERWIN (State Bar No. 189268) 

GENEVIEVE K. GUERTIN (State Bar No. 262479) 

T. KENNEDY HELM (State Bar No. 282381) 

HADDAD & SHERWIN LLP 

505 Seventeenth Street 

Oakland, California 94612 

Telephone: (510) 452-5500 

Fax: (510) 452-5510 

Attorneys for Plaintiff 

ARASH AKBARIEH 

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 

EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 

ARASH AKBARIEH, Individually, 

 Plaintiff, 

vs. 

CITY OF CHICO, a public entity, CHICO 

CHIEF OF POLICE KIRK TROSTLE, in 

his individual and official capacities, 

POLICE OFFICER MICHAEL 

CALDWELL, POLICE OFFICER 

JARED CUMBER, individually, and 

DOES 2 through 10, Jointly and Severally, 

 Defendants. 

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Case No. 2:13-CV-01816-KJM-DAD 

STIPULATION AND ORDER RE: 

TRIAL TESTIMONY OF KEVIN 

STONE, M.D., BY VIDEO DEPOSITION 

ALL PARTIES, THROUGH THEIR RESPECTIVE COUNSEL OF RECORD, HEREBY 

STIPULATE as follows: 

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Trial is scheduled to begin in this case on February 8, 2016. (Doc. 35). Plaintiff’s treating 

orthopedic surgeon, Kevin Stone, M.D., has informed Plaintiff’s counsel that he is unavailable to 

testify in person at the trial of this matter, as he will be attending conferences out of state from 

February 3 through 7, 2016, and out of the country from February 15 through 19, 2016. Dr. Stone 

states that he must be in his office otherwise during that month, given his travel schedule. Dr. 

Stone states that he is a sole practitioner in a private surgical and rehabilitation practice in San 

Francisco, and often must do urgent orthopedic surgeries for his patients. He states that requiring 

his testimony in person would present a hardship for him and his patients. He is willing to provide 

trial testimony by video deposition taken at his office. However, he is unavailable before the close 

of expert discovery on August 21, 2015, as he will be away next week until August 28, 2015. Dr. 

Stone is willing to make himself available for trial deposition by video at his office at a mutually 

agreed date and time. (See attached Declaration of Kevin R. Stone, M.D. in Support of Request 

for Trial Testimony by Video Deposition). 

Plaintiff is willing to pay the court reporter and videographer’s costs of the trial deposition 

by video of Dr. Stone, and any fee Dr. Stone requires for the trial deposition, while reserving all 

rights to reimbursement of those expenses in the event he prevails in this matter, as allowed by the 

Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, the United States Code, this Court’s local rules, and as 

otherwise allowed by law. 

Accordingly, all parties hereby stipulate and request that this Court permit the parties to 

complete the trial deposition by video of Kevin Stone, M.D., no later than October 15, 2015. The 

parties are meeting and conferring about scheduling and will confer with Dr. Stone’s office to 

schedule his trial deposition at a mutually convenient time upon his return. 

All other dates in this matter shall remain unchanged. 

Dated: August 19, 2015 HADDAD & SHERWIN, LLP 

 /s/ Julia Sherwin

JULIA SHERWIN 

 Attorneys for Plaintiff ARASH AKBARIEH 

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Dated: August 19, 2015 ANGELO, KILDAY & KILDUFF, LLP 

 /s/ Amie McTavish* 

AMIE McTAVISH 

Attorneys for Defendants CITY OF CHICO, CHICO 

CHIEF OF POLICE KIRK TROSTLE, OFFICER 

MICHAEL CALDWELL and 

OFFICER JARED CUMBER 

*Ms. McTavish provided her consent that this document be electronically filed. 

 

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ORDER 

 Pursuant to stipulation of the parties and good cause appearing therefore, IT IS SO 

ORDERED. 

DATED: August 25, 2015. 

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