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Nature of Suit Code: 440
Nature of Suit: Other Civil Rights
Cause of Action: 42:1983 Civil Rights Act

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Gregory M. Fox, State Bar No. 070876 

BERTRAND, FOX & ELLIOT 

The Waterfront Building - 2749 Hyde Street 

San Francisco, California 94109 

Email: gfox@bfesf.com 

Telephone: 415.353.0999 

Facsimile: 415.353.0990 

John A. Russo, City Attorney, State Bar No. 129729 

Randolph W. Hall, Chief Assist. City Attorney, State Bar No. 080142 

Rocio V. Fierro, Senior Deputy City Attorney, State Bar No. 139565 

OFFICE OF THE CITY ATTORNEY 

CITY OF OAKLAND 

One Frank H. Ogawa Plaza, Sixth Floor 

Oakland, California 94612 

Telephone: 510.238.3601 

Facsimile: 510.238.6500 

Attorneys for Defendant CITY OF OAKLAND 

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 

DELPHINE ALLEN, et al., 

 Plaintiffs, 

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CITY OF OAKLAND, et al., 

 Defendants. 

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MASTER FILE: No. C-00-4599-TEH 

[PROPOSED] ORDER EXTENDING TIME 

FOR COMPLETING MEET AND CONFER 

PROCESS RE: OAKLAND POLICE 

DEPARTMENT DISCIPLINE MATRIX. 

 In the Court’s Order “Extending Settlement Agreement” dated March 19, 2007 the parties 

were ordered to meet and confer on all issues related to the discipline matrix (“matrix”) and to either 

resolve all issues or request referral to Magistrate Judge Larson for settlement conference by March 

30, 2007. The parties have continued to meet and confer but will not be able to complete the meet 

and confer process by March 30, 2007 for the reasons set forth below. The City believes that it’s in 

the best interests of all parties that the Court extend the time to complete the meet and confer process 

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on the Discipline Matrix for approximately 30 days. Good cause for the continuance is set forth 

below. Plaintiffs’ attorney James Chanin and Ms. Evans of the IMT have informed the undersigned 

that they do not oppose the City’s request for an extension of time. Counsel for the OPOA, Mr. 

Lucia, has also been informed of this request and does not oppose it. 

In the alternative, if the Court decides not to extend the March 30, 2007 deadline, then the 

City respectfully requests that Court refer the discipline matrix issue to Magistrate Judge Larson for 

a settlement conference to be scheduled after May 1, 2007, which will allow the parties time to 

complete the meet and confer process over the next 30 days and be in a position to timely meet with 

Judge Larson in the event there are any remaining issues that have not been finally resolved by the 

meet and confer process. 

 Good cause for this request is set forth as follows. After preliminary discussions with Ms. 

Evans of the IMT and the Plaintiffs’ counsel, OPD decided to revert back to revising the current 

discipline matrix instead of using a completely new format based on a model used by the California 

Department of Corrections. OPD has revised penalties for the current matrix. OPD has revised the 

Manual of Rules (MOR) based on attorney-client consultations with the City Attorney. OPD has 

compared the matrix and MOR to ensure that all MORs are included in the revised Matrix. Chief 

Tucker was away from the office most of the last two weeks attending a training conference and OPD 

was unable to brief the Chief on this work. 

Commencing the week of March 26th Chief Tucker will be briefed on the revised matrix and 

MOR to ensure that his guidelines and direction are reflected in the matrix and that he approves the 

revised matrix and MOR. Assuming the Chief’s approval, the revised matrix and MOR will then be 

distributed to the City’s retained expert Pete France, the IMT, the Plaintiffs’ attorneys, and the 

OPOA, as well as the Office of the City Attorney for review and consultation. 

 OPD proposes the following schedule commencing the week of April 2, 2007. The week of 

April 2, 2007, OPD allow the parties 5 days to review and respond to the revised draft matrix and 

MOR. Commencing the week of April 9, OPD meet and confer with OPOA and other involved 

parties as necessary. Commencing the week of April 16, OPD to make any and all revisions to the 

matrix and MOR as necessary based on the meet and confer process with OPOA and other concerned 

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parties. OPD to consult with Chief Tucker regarding his final approval of the revised matrix and 

MOR. Complete any necessary meet and confer meetings with all parties. Obtain final approval by 

Chief Tucker of the matrix and report to the Court the final status of the matrix and MOR by April 

30, 2007. 

 Based on the progress accomplished to date, and the schedule set forth above, the City 

respectfully requests that the Court allow more time to complete the meet and confer process on the 

discipline matrix, either by continuing the March 30 deadline to April 30 or, in the alternative, 

referring the matter to Judge Larson for s settlement conference to be scheduled after May 1, 2007. 

Respectfully submitted: 

Dated: March 28, 2007 BERTRAND, FOX, & ELLIOT 

By: /s/ 

GREGORY M. FOX 

ORDER 

 Good cause appearing, the deadline for completing the meet and confer process between the 

parties on the discipline matrix is continued to April 30, 2007. If by that date the parties are unable to 

reach agreement on any and all issues regarding the discipline matrix then, on April 30, 2007, the 

parties are to inform the Court of the current status and request an immediate referral of any 

outstanding issues to Judge Larson for settlement conference. 

Dated: ____________, 2007 

 

THELTON E. HENDERSON, JUDGE 

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 

04/02

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORN

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Judge Thelton E. Henderson

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