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Nature of Suit Code: 440
Nature of Suit: Other Civil Rights
Cause of Action: 28:1331 Federal Question: Other Civil Rights

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STIPULATION AND [PROPOSED] ORDER APPROVING CONTINUANCE OF MOTIONS 

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GREGORY M. FOX, State Bar No. 070876 

BERTRAND, FOX & ELLIOT 

The Waterfront Building 

2749 Hyde Street 

San Francisco, CA 94109 

Telephone: 415.353.0999 

Facsimile: 415.353.0990 

CAROL A. KORADE, State Bar No. 082133 

CITY ATTORNEY, CITY OF ALAMEDA 

City Hall 

2263 Santa Clara Avenue, Room 280 

Alameda, CA 94501 

Telephone: 510.748.4544 

Facsimile: 510.748.4691 

Attorneys for Defendants

CITY OF ALAMEDA and OFFICER PATRICK WYETH 

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 

STEVEN C. ATKINS, 

 Plaintiff, 

 vs. 

 CITY OF ALAMEDA, OFFICER P. WYETH, 

and DOES I - X 

 Defendants. 

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Case No. C 03 3566 MHP 

STIPULATION AND [PROPOSED] ORDER 

APPROVING CONTINUANCE OF 

BRIEFING SCHEDULE FOR CROSSMOTIONS FOR SUMMARY JUDGMENT 

AND HEARING DATE 

The parties stipulate and respectfully request the Court order a change in the briefing schedule 

and hearing date for their respective cross-motions for summary judgment. Good cause exists due to 

scheduling difficulties regarding Mrs. Sheila Atkins and daughter Stephanie, who have just recently 

retained counsel, Susan Petro, Esq., 400 Montgomery Street, Suite 810, San Francisco, CA 94104, 

telephone 415.586.3066. Mrs. Atkins has asserted her marital privilege not to testify as a witness and 

Ms. Petro has also objected to Mrs. Atkins testifying. The parties have agreed to meet and confer 

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regarding the scope and applicability of the marital privilege. Also, we were not able to schedule 

Officer Wyeth’s deposition until 2pm Thursday, November 10, 2005 Therefore, the parties stipulate 

and request that the Cross Motions due to be filed by October 28, 2005, be continued with a new 

filing and service date of December 6, 2005. The parties further stipulate and request that the 

respective oppositions briefs previously scheduled to be filed by November 11, 2005, now be filed by 

December 12, 2005, and the parties also stipulate and request that the hearing on both motions that 

was scheduled to be heard on Monday, December 5, 2005 at 2:00 p.m. be continued to Monday, 

February 6, 2006 at 2:00 p.m. All of these dates are mutually agreeable to the parties as set forth 

below.

STIPULATION

All parties agree to an extension to file the Cross Motions For Summary Judgment from 

October 28, 2005 to December 6, 2005, the parties stipulate and request that the opposition briefs 

previously scheduled to be filed by November 11, 2005, now be filed by December 12, 2005. These 

parties further stipulate and agree to continue the motions to be heard on Monday, December 5, 2005 

at 2:00 p.m. to Monday, February 6, 2005 at 2:00 p.m. or on that date convenient to the Court. 

 So stipulated. 

Dated: October 20, 2005 

 /s/ 

Steven C. Atkins 

Plaintiff in Pro Per 

Dated: October 20, 2005 

By: /s/ 

GREGORY M. FOX 

Attorney for the City of Alameda 

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I hereby attest that I have on file all holograph signatures for any signatures indicated by a 

“conformed” signature (/s/) within this E-filed document. Dated: October 20, 2005. 

 By: /s/ 

GREGORY M. FOX 

BERTRAND, FOX & ELLIOT 

[Proposed] ORDER

 Having reviewed the Stipulation of these parties, and good cause appearing therefore, 

IT IS HEREBY ORDERED THAT the Cross Motions due to be filed and served by Friday October 

28, 2005 be continued to December 6, 2005, the opposition briefs to be filed and served December 

12, 2005 and the Motions that were scheduled to be heard on Monday December 5, 2005 at 2:00 p.m. 

be heard on Monday, February 6, 2006 at 2:00 p.m. 

 SO ORDERED. 

____________________ ______________________________________ 

DATE MARILYN H. PATEL 

 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT JUDGE 

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NITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

Judge Marilyn H. Patel

10/24/2005

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