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Nature of Suit Code: 720
Nature of Suit: Labor Management Relations Act
Cause of Action: 9:9 Motion to Confirm Arbitration Loan

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JOINT STATUS REPORT AND REQUEST FOR CONTINUANCE

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WYLIE, McBRIDE, PLATTEN & RENNER

DIANE SIDD-CHAMPION, SBN 78140

605 Market Street, Suite 1200

San Francisco, CA 94105

Telephone: (415) 977-0904

Facsimile: (415) 536-0906

E-mail: dsidd-champion@wmprlaw.com

Attorneys for Petitioners

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

SAN FRANCISCO DIVISION

GENERAL EMPLOYEES TRUST FUND 

and BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF GENERAL 

EMPLOYEES TRUST FUND,

Petitioners,

v.

AMERICAN EMPIRE BUILDING 

MAINTENANCE CORPORATION, 

a dissolved corporation, and YUL HERMES,

an individual, 

Respondents.

Case No. 14-cv-04054-NC

JOINT STATUS REPORT AND

REQUEST FOR CONTINUANCE

Hearing: September 16, 2015

Time: 1:00 p.m.

Place: Telephonic

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Petitioners General Employees Trust Fund and Board of Trustees of General Employees 

Trust Fund and Respondents American Empire Building Maintenance Corporation and Yul Hermes 

submit this Joint Status Report pursuant to the Court’s Order of August 5, 2015. Dkt. No. 78. 

By the Court’s Order, the parties were to submit a joint status report with an update on 

discovery issues by September 14, 2015. Id. A status hearing was set for September 16, 2015. Fact 

discovery was extended to September 16, 2015. Id. 

On September 9, 2015, the parties participated in mediation with a Court-appointed 

mediator. Prior to the mediation, pursuant to ADR Local Rule 6-10(a), Petitioners disclosed that 

the General Employees Trust Fund is governed by a Board of Trustees that has the final authority to 

settle. Petitioners further disclosed that Raymond Nann, the individual Trustee who would attend 

the mediation, would not have final authority to settle, but rather would have, to the greatest extent 

feasible, authority to recommend a settlement to the Board of Trustees. 

At the mediation, Respondents signed a written settlement agreement. Mr. Nann signed the 

written settlement agreement and promised to recommend it to the Board of Trustees.

The Board of Trustees will consider the settlement at its next meeting, now scheduled for 

September 21, 2015. 

If the Board of Trustees approves the settlement, any discovery issues will be moot. 

Accordingly, Petitioners and Respondents jointly request that the discovery report be held in 

abeyance, that the telephonic status conference be continued from September 16, 2015 to a date after 

September 21, 2015 that is convenient for the Court, and that the deadline for fact discovery be 

continued until after the telephonic status conference.

WYLIE, McBRIDE, PLATTEN & RENNER

Dated: September 11, 2015 By: /s/ Diane Sidd-Champion

DIANE SIDD-CHAMPION

Attorney for Petitioners

COHEN AND JACOBSON, LLP

Dated: September 11, 2015 By: /s/ Lawrence A. Jacobson

LAWRENCE A. JACOBSON

Attorney for Respondents

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ECF CERTIFICATION

I, Diane Sidd-Champion, am the ECF User whose user ID and password are being used to 

file this Joint Status Report and Request for Continuance. In compliance with Civil Local Rule 5-

1(i)(3), I hereby attest that Lawrence A. Jacobson has concurred in this filing. 

WYLIE, McBRIDE, PLATTEN & RENNER

Dated: September 11, 2015 By: /s/ Diane Sidd-Champion

DIANE SIDD-CHAMPION

Attorney for Petitioners

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