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Nature of Suit Code: 110
Nature of Suit: Insurance
Cause of Action: 28:1441 Petition for Removal- Insurance Contract

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CASE NO. C05-1315 MHP STIP. AND [PROP.] ORDER RE 

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TOD M. RATFIELD (State Bar No. 148545) 

1233 Alpine Road 

Walnut Creek, CA 94596 

Telephone: (925) 934.3300 

Facsimile: (925) 934.9775 

Email: todratfield@yahoo.com 

Attorneys for Plaintiffs 

DUARTE & WITTING, INC. dba NADER 

CHRYSLER PLYMOUTH, and NADER 

EGHTESAD and AFSANEH EGHTESAD 

MICHAEL BARNES (State Bar No. 121314) 

SONIA MARTIN (State Bar No. 191148) 

STEPHANIE DUCHENE (State Bar No. 234896) 

SONNENSCHEIN NATH & ROSENTHAL LLP 

685 Market Street, 6th Floor 

San Francisco, CA 94105 

Telephone: (415) 882-5000 

Facsimile: (415) 543-5472 

Email: mbarnes@sonnenschein.com 

 smartin@sonnenschein.com 

 sduchene@sonnenschein.com 

Attorneys for Defendant 

UNIVERSAL UNDERWRITERS 

INSURANCE COMPANY 

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 

SAN FRANCISCO DIVISION 

DUARTE & WITTING, INC. dba 

NADER CHRYSLER PLYMOUTH, and 

NADER EGHTESAD and AFSANEH 

EGHTESAD, individuals, 

 Plaintiffs, 

 vs. 

UNIVERSAL UNDERWRITERS 

INSURANCE COMPANY, and DOES 

1-100, inclusive, 

 Defendants. 

No. C 05-1315 MHP 

STIPULATION AND [PROPOSED] 

ORDER RE DISCOVERY DEADLINE 

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The parties, by and through their respective counsel of record, hereby stipulate and agree 

as follows and respectfully request that the Court approve and give effect to their stipulation: 

WHEREAS plaintiffs’ counsel, Tod Ratfield, is a solo practitioner and has been 

preparing for a trial in another case, which is scheduled to begin on May 8, 2006; 

WHEREAS Universal has been unable to complete the depositions of Nastaran 

Eghtesad, Nader Eghtesad, Duarte and Witting, Inc. dba Nader Chrysler Plymouth and Mehdi 

Rezazadeh, because plaintiffs’ counsel has been unable to provide dates for the continued 

depositions; 

WHEREAS Universal’s repeated attempts to serve deposition subpoenas on Rick and 

Vicky Frame have been unsuccessful, and they will need to be deposed to preserve their 

testimony for trial; 

WHEREAS plaintiffs have not completed the deposition of Rob Edwards; 

WHEREAS the discovery cut-off currently is May 3, 2006; and 

WHEREAS a thirty-day continuance of the discovery cut-off will not affect any other 

case management dates set by the Court; 

IT IS HEREBY STIPULATED AND AGREED that the discovery cut-off should be 

continued to June 3, 2006, for the sole purpose of completing the depositions of Mr. Edwards, 

Mr. and Mrs. Frame, Mr. Rezazadeh, Gary Hsu, Nastaran Eghtesad, Richard Mendelsohn, Mr. 

Eghtesad and Nader Chrysler, on the dates currently scheduled or as mutually agreed by the 

parties. 

IT IS SO STIPULATED. 

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 Dated: April 24, 2006 Respectfully submitted, 

LAW OFFICE OF TOD RATFIELD 

By /s/ .

Tod Ratfield 

Attorneys for Plaintiffs 

DUARTE & WITTING, INC. dba NADER 

CHRYSLER PLYMOUTH, and NADER 

EGHTESAD and AFSANEH EGHTESAD 

Dated: April 24, 2006 SONNENSCHEIN NATH & ROSENTHAL LLP 

By /s/ .

Sonia Martin 

Attorneys for Defendant 

UNIVERSAL UNDERWRITERS INSURANCE 

COMPANY 

 IT IS SO ORDERED. 

 

 Honorable Marilyn Hall Patel 

 U.S. District Court Judge 

U

NITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

IT IS SO ORDERED

Judge Marilyn H. Patel

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