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Nature of Suit Code: 442
Nature of Suit: Civil Rights Employment
Cause of Action: 42:1981 Job Discrimination (Race)

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STIPULATED REQUEST FOR AN ORDER TO STAY LITIGATION

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MILLER

LAW

GROUP

A PROFESSIONAL CORPORATION

LARKSPUR, CALIFORNIA

Michele Ballard Miller (SBN 104198) 

Kerry McInerney Freeman (184764) 

MILLER LAW GROUP 

A Professional Corporation

60 E. Sir Francis Drake Blvd., Ste. 302 

Larkspur, CA 94939 

Tel. (415) 464-4300 

Fax (415) 464-4336 

Attorneys for Defendants CHEVRONTEXACO

GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY SERVICES and

CHEVRONTEXACO OVERSEAS PETROLEUM

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 

EDWARD McLAUGHLIN, 

 Plaintiff(s), 

v.

CHEVRONTEXACO GLOBAL 

TECHNOLOGY SERVICES; 

CHEVRONTEXACO OVERSEAS 

PETROLEUM; DOES 1-10, exclusive, 

 Defendant(s).

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STIPULATED REQUEST FOR AN ORDER

TO STAY LITIGATION PENDING 

EXHAUSTION OF DEFENDANTS’

INTERNAL ALTERNATIVE DISPUTE

RESOLUTION PROCEDURES 

Complaint filed: May 27, 2005

Defendants CHEVRONTEXACO GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY SERVICES and 

CHEVRONTEXACO OVERSEAS PETROLEUM (for the purposes of this pleading referred 

to as “Defendants”) and Plaintiff Edward McLaughlin, through their respective attorneys, 

hereby join in this stipulated request to stay this litigation for six months while the parties 

attempt to resolve this matter by exhausting Defendants’ internal alternative dispute

resolution procedures.

After receiving Plaintiff’s Complaint, Defendants communicated to Plaintiff 

regarding their position that Defendants’ employees are subject to Defendants’ mandatory 

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A PROFESSIONAL CORPORATION

LARKSPUR, CALIFORNIA

internal grievance procedure entitled “Steps to Employee Problem Solution Process” 

(“STEPS”). (Declaration of Kerry McInerney Freeman In Support Of The Parties’ Stipulated

Request For An Order To Stay Litigation Pending Exhaustion Of Defendants’ Internal 

Alternative Dispute Resolution Procedures (“Freeman Dec.”), filed herewith, at ¶3). 

In the interest of judicial economy and the spirit of cooperation, Defendants 

proposed that Plaintiff stipulate to staying the litigation to allow the parties to exhaust the 

STEPS procedures, and Plaintiff agreed. (Freeman Dec., ¶4.) The parties, who have 

already engaged in a mediation before Mark Rudy, anticipate that exhaustion of the STEPS 

proceedings will take approximately six months, and therefore request to stay this litigation

for six months. (Freeman Dec., ¶5.) 

Dated: August 4, 2005 MILLER LAW GROUP 

 Professional Corporation

By:_________//s//_____________

Kerry McInerney Freeman 

Attorneys for Defendants 

CHEVRONTEXACO GLOBAL 

TECHNOLOGY SERVICES and

CHEVRONTEXACO OVERSEAS 

PETROLEUM

Dated: August 4, 2005 HIGHMAN, HIGHMAN & BALL 

By:________//s//______________

Bruce J. Highman 

Attorneys for Plaintiff 

 EDWARD McLAUGHLIN

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A PROFESSIONAL CORPORATION

LARKSPUR, CALIFORNIA

ORDER

PURSUANT TO THE PARTIES’ STIPULATED REQUEST, IT IS ORDERED

that litigation in this matter will be stayed for six months following service of this Order while

the parties attempt to resolve this matter by exhausting Defendant’s internal alternative 

dispute resolution procedures. 

DATE: __________________ ____________________________

 Honorable James Larson

024.004.87

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August 10, 2005

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

APPROVED

Judge James Larson

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