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Nature of Suit Code: 360
Nature of Suit: Other Personal Injury
Cause of Action: 28:2671 Federal Tort Claims Act

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STIPULATION VACATING MEDIATION REFERENCE AND CONTINUING CMC, AND [PROPOSED] ORDER 

CASE NO. CV 16-00434 KAW 

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BRIAN J. STRETCH (CABN 163973) 

United States Attorney 

SARA WINSLOW (DCBN 457643) 

Chief, Civil Division 

CLAIRE T. CORMIER (CABN 154364) 

Assistant United States Attorney 

150 Almaden Boulevard, Suite 900 

San Jose, California 95113 

Telephone: (408) 535-5082 

FAX: (408) 535-5081 

claire.cormier@usdoj.gov

Attorneys for Federal Defendants 

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 

OAKLAND DIVISION 

BRENDAN HUERTA, 

Plaintiff, 

v. 

UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF 

AGRICULTURE, AGRICULTURE 

RESEARCH SERVICE, DOES 1-20, 

Defendants. 

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CASE NO. CV 16-00434 KAW 

STIPULATION AND [PROPOSED] ORDER 

VACATING MEDIATION DEADLINE AND 

CONTINUING CASE MANAGEMENT 

CONFERENCE

 

This case was referred to the Court’s mediation program on March 14, 2016. The mediation was 

initially scheduled for June 29, 2016, and the mediation deadline was modified accordingly. Later, due 

to plaintiff’s counsel’s trial schedule, as well as issues that arose relating to discovery and potentially 

liable third parties, the parties requested a continuance of the mediation deadline, which was extended to 

August 9. 

More recently, after further investigation seemed to confirm that the person involved in the 

incident at issue in this case was an employee of a federal contractor, not a federal employee, the Court 

granted the parties’ stipulated request to withdraw the federal defendants’ pending motion to dismiss and 

allow plaintiff time to file an amended complaint naming additional parties. Plaintiff now has until 

August 12 to file his amended complaint. Given the likely addition of one or more new parties to this 

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action, the existing parties believe that alternative dispute resolution should be delayed until all parties 

have appeared.1 

Accordingly, the parties HEREBY STIPULATE AND REQUEST that the order referring this 

case to the court’s mediation program be vacated and that the existing mediation deadline be vacated. 

For the same reasons, the parties STIPULATE AND REQUEST that the initial case management 

conference, currently scheduled for September 20, 2016, be continued to Tuesday, January 17, 2017, at 

which time the issue of ADR selection can be re-visited. 

IT IS SO STIPULATED. 

 Respectfully submitted, 

Dated: July 29, 2016 BRADY LAW GROUP 

 /s/ 

 By: . 

STEVEN J. BRADY 

 Attorney for Plaintiff 

Dated: July 29, 2016 BRIAN J. STRETCH 

 UNITED STATES ATTORNEY 

 /s/ 

By: . 

CLAIRE T. CORMIER2

 Assistant U.S. Attorney 

[PROPOSED] ORDER 

 IT IS SO ORDERED. 

Dated: , 2016 

 KANDIS A. WESTMORE 

 UNITED STATES MAGISTRATE JUDGE 

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 The current court-appointed mediator, Stephen Schrey, has advised that he is willing to act as 

mediator for this case after the new parties are added, should all parties agree at that time. 

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 I, Claire T. Cormier, hereby attest that I have been authorized to submit the electronic 

signatures indicated by a “conformed” signature (/s/) within this e-filed document. 

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