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Nature of Suit Code: 440
Nature of Suit: Other Civil Rights
Cause of Action: 28:1983 Civil Rights

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STIPULATION AND ORDER 

TO EXTEND EXPERT 

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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 

EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 

SONYA WOLF, et al., ) 

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Plaintiff, ) 

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v. ) 

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COUNTY OF SAN JOAQUIN, et al., ) 

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Defendants. ) 

_____________________________________ ) 

No. 2:06-CV-00047-WBS-KJM 

STIPULATION AND ORDER TO 

EXTEND DATE FOR EXPERT 

DISCLOSURES 

 

 

DANA A. SUNTAG (California State Bar #125127)

SUNTAG & FEUERSTEIN 

A Professional Corporation 

The Kress Building 

20 North Sutter Street, Fourth Floor 

Stockton, California 95202 

Telephone: (209) 943-2004 

Facsimile: (209) 943-0905 

DAVID WOOTEN (California State Bar #114599) 

Assistant County Counsel 

OFFICE OF THE COUNTY COUNSEL 

 OF SAN JOAQUIN 

County of San Joaquin 

Courthouse - Room 711 

222 East Weber Avenue 

Stockton, California 95202 

Telephone: (209) 468-2980 

Attorneys for Defendants 

COUNTY OF SAN JOAQUIN, 

MELISSA TORRES, 

MICHELLE McDANIEL, 

and VALERIE AGBULOS 

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WHEREAS, Plaintiffs filed this lawsuit on or about January 9, 2006; 

WHEREAS, on or about May 23, 2006, this Court issued a Scheduling 

Order; 

WHEREAS, the Scheduling Order provides that (i) Plaintiff is to disclose 

experts and produce expert reports by no later than August 4, 2006, (ii) Defendants are 

to disclose experts and produce expert reports by no later than August 18, 2006; and 

(iii) experts intended solely for rebuttal are to be disclosed and reports produced by 

September 29. 2006; 

WHEREAS, the claims in this case relate, in part, to child dependency 

proceedings that occurred with respect to Plaintiff’s children in the case entitled In re 

Brittany W. and Nicholas H., San Joaquin County Superior Court Case No. J03089, in 

which there was a several day trial in 2005 (the “Child Dependency Case”); 

WHEREAS, the parties are jointly attempting to obtain copies of the trial 

transcripts and other documents from the Child Dependency Case, which, under 

California law, are protected and cannot be released without a court order on a petition 

under California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 827; 

WHEREAS, the parties have filed their Section 827 petitions, and they 

are scheduled for hearing in the San Joaquin County Superior Court on July 6, 2006; 

WHEREAS, the parties anticipate it will take some time for the court and 

the court reporter to produce copies of the documents and transcripts from the Child 

Dependency Case (the transcripts will have to be transcribed); 

WHEREAS, in the interim, the parties are arranging a schedule for the 

depositions of the percipient witnesses and wish to conduct a reasonable amount of 

deposition discovery, as well as review the records from the Child Dependency Case, 

before retaining/disclosing expert witnesses and having them prepare their reports so 

that the parties may attempt to narrow the issues in the case; 

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WHEREAS, the parties wish to extend the dates relating to expert 

witnesses to provide a reasonable time to attempt to obtain records from the Child 

Dependency Case and to conduct a reasonable amount of deposition discovery; 

WHEREAS, a reasonable extension of time is in the interests of justice 

and economy because it will allow the parties to select and designate experts with more 

precision and this may promote a possible early resolution of this case; and 

WHEREAS, this case is related to the case entitled Wolf v. County of San 

Joaquin, et al.; United States District Court, Eastern District of California, Case 

No. 2:06-CV-00050-WBS-KJM, and although the issues in the two cases are different, 

the Court’s Scheduling Order in that case set the same dates as the Scheduling Order 

in this case, and, moreover, the parties are largely the same and their counsel are the 

same, and it would be in the interests of judicial efficiency to maintain parallel dates in 

both cases, and the parties are concurrently submitting a similar stipulation and order 

in that case: 

IT IS STIPULATED AND AGREED, by the parties, through their 

undersigned counsel of record, as follows: 

1. Plaintiff shall disclose experts and produce expert reports by no 

later than January 15, 2007; 

2. Defendants shall disclose experts and produce expert reports by 

no later than February 1, 2007; and 

3. With regard to expert testimony intended solely for rebuttal, those 

experts shall be disclosed and reports produced on or before 

March 1, 2007. 

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Each of these dates are within the time limitations contained in Rule 

26(a)(2) of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure. 

Dated: June 30, 2006 SUNTAG & FEUERSTEIN 

 A Professional Corporation 

 By: _/s/________________________ 

 DANA A. SUNTAG 

Attorneys for Defendants 

COUNTY OF SAN JOAQUIN, 

MELISSA TORRES, MICHELLE 

McDANIEL, and VALERIE 

AGBULOS 

Dated: June 30, 2006 LAW OFFICES OF ROBERT R. 

POWELL 

 By: _/s/_________________________ 

 ROBERT POWELL 

Attorneys for Plaintiffs 

SONYA WOLF and NICHOLAS H. 

O R D E R

Based on the foregoing stipulation of the parties, noting that all other 

dates previously scheduled shall remain as set, and good cause appearing therefor, 

IT IS SO ORDERED. 

Dated: July 10, 2006. 

_____________________________________ 

UNITED STATES MAGISTRATE JUDGE

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