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Nature of Suit Code: 190
Nature of Suit: Other Contract Actions
Cause of Action: 28:1441 Petition For Removal--Other Contract

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STIPULATION AND [PROPOSED] ORDER RE: BRIEFING SCHEDULE 

CASE NO. 10-CV-2353-EDL 

497828.01

KEKER & VAN NEST LLP 

ROBERT A. VAN NEST - #84065 

BROOK DOOLEY - #230423 

WARREN A. BRAUNIG - #243884 

710 Sansome Street 

San Francisco, CA 94111-1704 

Telephone: (415) 391-5400 

Facsimile: (415) 397-7188 

Attorneys for Defendants 

SOUTHERN WINE AND SPIRITS OF AMERICA, INC.; 

HARVEY CHAPLIN; WAYNE CHAPLIN; 

and JAMES MELAHN 

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 

SAN FRANCISCO DIVISION 

THEODORE SIMPKINS, 

Plaintiff, 

v.

SOUTHERN WINE AND SPIRITS OF 

AMERICA, INC,; HARVEY CHAPLIN; 

WAYNE CHAPLIN; JAMES MELAHN; and 

DOES ONE through TEN, inclusive, 

Defendant.

Case No. 10-CV-2353-EDL 

STIPULATION AND [PROPOSED] 

ORDER RE: BRIEFING SCHEDULE 

Judge: Hon. Elizabeth D. Laporte 

Date Comp. Filed: April 28, 2010 

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AS MODIFED

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STIPULATION AND [PROPOSED] ORDER RE: BRIEFING SCHEDULE 

CASE NO. 10-CV-2353-EDL 

497828.01

WHEREAS Defendants Southern Wine & Spirits of America, Inc., Harvey Chaplin, 

Wayne Chaplin and James Melahn removed this case to federal court on May 28, 2010; 

WHEREAS Defendants filed a Motion to Dismiss Pursuant to the First-to-File Rule on 

June 1, 2010 and set it for hearing on July 6, 2010; 

WHEREAS the Court re-set the hearing on that Motion to July 13, 2010; 

WHEREAS Defendants filed a Motion to Dismiss Pursuant to Federal Rule of Civil 

Procedure 12 on June 4, 2010, and set it for hearing on July 13, 2010; 

WHEREAS Plaintiff filed a Motion to Remand on June 10, 2010; 

WHEREAS Defendants agreed that Plaintiff could set the hearing for his motion to 

remand on thirty-three (33) days notice, rather than the thirty-five (35) days contemplated by 

Local Rule 7-2(a); 

WHEREAS Plaintiff set the hearing for his Motion to Remand for July 13, 2010, the 

same day as the hearing on the other two motions;

WHEREAS the parties have met and conferred and believe that the number of issues to 

be briefed on this schedule, and their complexity, warrant a brief extension of the time to file 

opposition and reply briefs; and 

WHEREAS the proposed schedule will not prejudice any party and will not cause undue 

delay;

IT IS THEREFORE STIPULATED THAT: 

1) Plaintiff’s Opposition to the Motion to Dismiss Pursuant to the First-toFile Rule will be due on June 25, 2010; 

 2) Plaintiff’s Opposition to the Motion to Dismiss Pursuant to Federal Rule 

of Civil Procedure 12 will be due on June 25, 2010; 

 3) Defendants’ Opposition to the Motion to Remand will be due on 

June 25, 2010; 

 4) Defendants’ Reply re: the Motion to Dismiss Pursuant to the First-to-File 

Rule will be due on July 2, 2010; 

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STIPULATION AND [PROPOSED] ORDER RE: BRIEFING SCHEDULE 

CASE NO. 10-CV-2353-EDL 

497828.01

 5) Defendants’ Reply re: the Motion to Dismiss Pursuant to Federal Rule of 

Civil Procedure 12 will be due on July 2, 2010; 

 6) Plaintiff’s Reply re: the Motion to Remand will be due on July 2, 2010. 

Dated: June 15, 2010 KEKER & VAN NEST LLP 

By: /s/ Warren A. Braunig

ROBERT A. VAN NEST 

BROOK DOOLEY 

WARREN A. BRAUNIG 

Attorneys for Defendants 

SOUTHERN WINE AND SPIRITS OF 

AMERICA, INC.; HARVEY CHAPLIN; 

WAYNE CHAPLIN and JAMES 

MELAHN

Dated: June 15, 2010 

ALTSHULER BERZON LLP 

By: /s/ James M. Finberg 

MICHAEL RUBIN 

JAMES M. FINBERG 

Attorneys for Plaintiff 

THEODORE SIMPKINS 

Concurrence obtained per

General Order 45 X.B 

IT IS SO ORDERED. 

Dated:

HON. ELIZABETH D. LAPORTE 

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7) The hearing on all three motions is continued to July 20, 2010. June 15, 2010

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