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Nature of Suit Code: 950
Nature of Suit: Constitutionality of State Statutes
Cause of Action: 28:2201 Constitutionality of State Statutes

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Case No. 3:16-cv-04311-RS

STIPULATION AND [PROPOSED] ORDER REGARDING STAY OF PROCEEDINGS

BENJAMIN J. HORWICH (State Bar No. 249090)

JOHN F. MULLER (State Bar No. 300839)

DAVID J. FEDER (State Bar No. 302112)

MUNGER, TOLLES & OLSON LLP

560 Mission Street

Twenty-Seventh Floor

San Francisco, California 94105

Telephone: (415) 512-4000

Facsimile: (415) 512-4077

ben.horwich@mto.com

Attorneys for Plaintiff BNSF Railway Company

RAYMOND A. ATKINS (pro hac vice)

REBECCA K. WOOD (pro hac vice)

HANNA M. CHOUEST (pro hac vice)

TOBIAS S. LOSS-EATON (pro hac vice)

SIDLEY AUSTIN LLP

1501 K Street, NW

Washington, D.C. 20005

Telephone: (202) 736-8000

Facsimile: (202) 736-8711

ratkins@sidley.com

Attorneys for Plaintiff Union Pacific Railroad Company

(additional counsel listed on signature page)

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

BNSF RAILWAY COMPANY and UNION 

PACIFIC RAILROAD COMPANY,

Plaintiffs,

vs.

CALIFORNIA STATE BOARD OF 

EQUALIZATION, et al., 

Defendants.

Case No. 3:16-cv-04311-RS

STIPULATION AND [PROPOSED] 

ORDER REGARDING STAY OF 

PROCEEDINGS 

Judge: Hon. Richard Seeborg

Place: Courtroom 3, 450 Golden Gate Ave., 

San Francisco, California

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STIPULATION AND [PROPOSED] ORDER REGARDING STAY OF PROCEEDINGS

Plaintiffs BNSF Railway Company and Union Pacific Railroad Company (collectively, 

“Plaintiffs”) and Defendants California State Board of Equalization, David J. Gau, George 

Runner, Fiona Ma, Jerome Horton, Diane L. Harkey, Betty Y. Yee, Kamala D. Harris, California 

Governor’s Office of Emergency Services, and Mark Ghilarducci (collectively, “Defendants”), by 

and through their counsel, hereby stipulate and agree as follows:

WHEREAS, Plaintiffs filed a Complaint and a Motion for Preliminary Injunction to 

restrain the collection and enforcement of a charge imposed on the transportation by rail in 

California of certain hazardous materials, under a California law known as Senate Bill 84 (the “SB 

84 charge”), on the ground that the charge is preempted by certain federal statutory and 

constitutional provisions;

WHEREAS, on August 18, 2016, pursuant to the stipulation of the parties, the Court 

stayed Defendants’ obligation to answer or otherwise respond to the Complaint until 40 days after 

the Court’s decision on Plaintiffs’ Motion for a Preliminary Injunction, and stayed all discoveryrelated obligations and disclosures under Fed. R. Civ. P. 26 until further order of the Court;

WHEREAS, by orders filed October 28, 2016 and November 15, 2016, this Court 

preliminarily enjoined the collection and enforcement of the SB 84 charge;

WHEREAS, on November 18, 2016, Defendants filed a Notice of Appeal with respect to 

the Court’s October 28, 2016 and November 15, 2016 Orders;

WHEREAS, Defendants’ appeal has been docketed in the United States Court of Appeals 

for the Ninth Circuit as No. 16-17130;

WHEREAS, under this Court’s order, Defendants are due to respond to the Complaint on 

December 7, 2016;

WHEREAS, this Court has scheduled a case management conference for January 19, 2017;

WHEREAS, the parties believe that judicial and party resources would best be conserved 

by a complete stay of proceedings in this Court during the pendency of Defendants’ appeal;

WHEREAS, Defendants have agreed, in the event that the Preliminary Injunction is 

stayed, vacated, reversed or otherwise dissolved, that they will at that time seek to collect 

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prospectively only—and will not seek to collect retroactively, or otherwise impose liability on 

Plaintiffs or Plaintiffs’ customers for—any SB 84 charge that is or could have been imposed.

ACCORDINGLY, IT IS HEREBY STIPULATED AND AGREED, by and between the 

undersigned parties that:

1. All proceedings, including Defendants’ obligation to respond to the Complaint, all 

discovery, and all disclosures under Fed. R. Civ. P. 26, should be stayed until final resolution of 

Defendants’ appeal.

2. The case management conference currently scheduled for January 19, 2017 should be 

vacated.

3. In the event that the Preliminary Injunction is stayed, vacated, reversed or otherwise 

dissolved, Defendants will at that time seek to collect prospectively only—and will not seek to 

collect retroactively, or otherwise impose liability on Plaintiffs or Plaintiffs’ customers for—any 

SB 84 charge that is or could have been imposed.

4. The parties will contact the Court within 7 days of the issuance of the Ninth Circuit’s 

mandate in Defendant’s appeal to schedule a case management conference.

DATED: December 2, 2016 MUNGER, TOLLES & OLSON LLP

BENJAMIN J. HORWICH

JOHN F. MULLER

DAVID J. FEDER

By: /s/ Benjamin J. Horwich

BENJAMIN J. HORWICH*

Attorneys for Plaintiff BNSF Railway Company

* I attest that the concurrence in the filing of this document has been obtained from the other 

signatories.

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STIPULATION AND [PROPOSED] ORDER REGARDING STAY OF PROCEEDINGS

SIDLEY AUSTIN LLP

RAYMOND A. ATKINS (pro hac vice)

REBECCA K. WOOD (pro hac vice)

HANNA M. CHOUEST (pro hac vice)

TOBIAS S. LOSS-EATON (pro hac vice)

CAROL LYNN THOMPSON (State Bar No. 148079)

SIDLEY AUSTIN LLP

555 California Street, Suite 2000

San Francisco, California 94104

Telephone: (415) 772-1291; Facsimile: (415) 772-7400

cthompson@sidley.com

MELISSA B. HAGAN (State Bar No. 297408)

Senior Counsel - Environmental Law &

National Environmental Counsel

UNION PACIFIC RAILROAD COMPANY

13181 Crossroads Parkway North, Suite 500

City of Industry, California 91746

Telephone: (562) 566-4609; Facsimile: (402) 501-2401

mbhagan@up.com

By: /s/ Rebecca K. Wood

REBECCA K. WOOD

Attorneys for Plaintiff Union Pacific Railroad Company

KAMALA D. HARRIS

Attorney General of California

RANDY L. BARROW

Supervising Deputy Attorney General

LINDA GÁNDARA (State Bar No. 194667)

Deputy Attorney General

By: /s/ Nicholas Stern

NICHOLAS STERN (State Bar No. 148308)

Deputy Attorney General

Attorneys for Defendants California Board of 

Equalization, David J. Gau, George Runner, Fiona Ma, 

Jerome Horton, Diane L. Harkey, Betty T. Yee, Kamala 

D. Harris, California Governor’s Office of Emergency 

Services, and Mark Ghilarducci

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STIPULATION AND [PROPOSED] ORDER REGARDING STAY OF PROCEEDINGS

Pursuant to stipulation, and good cause appearing, IT IS SO ORDERED.

DATED: December ____, 2016

By:

Hon. Richard Seeborg

UNITED STATES DISTRICT JUDGE

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