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Nature of Suit Code: 360
Nature of Suit: Other Personal Injury
Cause of Action: 46:741 Shipping

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PETER A. LINDH (061907)

MARKER E. LOVELL, JR. (208659)

GIBSON ROBB & LINDH LLP

100 First Street, t, 27th Floor

San Francisco, California 94105

Telephone: (415) 348-6000

Facsimile: (415) 348-6001

Attorneys for Defendants

CHANNEL STAR EXCURSIONS, INC. and

BRIAN GERHART

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

WAVERLY WALTON, SR. individually and

as successor in interest to FRED WALTON,

deceased,

Plaintiffs,

v.

CHANNEL STAR EXCURSIONS, INC.;

BRIAN GERHART, individually and as a

principal of CHANNEL STAR

EXCURSIONS, INC.; RON COURSEY and

Does 1 - 100,

Defendants.

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 2:05-cv-1737-MCE-PAN

ORDER GRANTING

DEFENDANTS’S CHANNEL STAR

EXCURSIONS, INC. AND BRIAN

GERHART’S MOTION TO STRIKE

PLAINTIFF’S DEMAND FOR JURY

TRIAL

Date: December 21, 2005

Time: 9:00 a.m.

Dept.: 25

—NFN—

Defendants CHANNEL STAR EXCURSIONS, INC. and BRIAN GERHART’S Motion

to Strike Plaintiff’s Demand for Jury Trial came on for regularly scheduled hearing before the

Honorable Peter A. Nowinski on December 21, 2005 in the above-entitled Court. Antonio

Lawson of the LAWSON LAW OFFICES appeared on behalf of plaintiff WAVERLY

WALTON, SR. Peter A. Lindh and Marker E. Lovell, Jr. of GIBSON ROBB & LINDH LLP

appeared on behalf of CHANNEL STAR EXCURSIONS, INC. and BRIAN GERHART After

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considering the moving and opposition papers, arguments of counsel and all other matters

presented to the Court, IT IS HEREBY ORDERED that Defendants’ Motion to Strike is hereby

GRANTED on the following ground:

1. Plaintiff has no right to jury trial in this case, because the sole basis for this

court’s jurisdiction is admiralty.

IT IS SO ORDERED.

Dated: March 29, 2006

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MORRISON C. ENGLAND, JR

UNITED STATES DISTRICT JUDGE

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