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Nature of Suit Code: 442
Nature of Suit: Civil Rights Employment
Cause of Action: 28:1441 Petition for Removal - Employment Discrimination

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JOINT STIPULATION AND [PROPOSED] 

ORDER ON REMAND Case No. C07-02679 EMC 

LAW 

OFFICE OF 

JEROME 

SCHREIBSTEIN

ATTORNEYS AT LAW 

EMBARCADERO CENTER WEST 

275 BATTERY STREET, TWENTIETH FLOOR 

SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94111 

(415) 986-5900

JEROME SCHREIBSTEIN (SBN: 154051)

LAW OFFICE OF JEROME SCHREIBSTEIN 

Embarcadero Center West 

275 Battery Street, Twentieth Floor 

San Francisco, CA 94111 

Telephone: (415) 986-5900 

Facsimile: (415) 986-8054 

Attorneys for Defendant 

EAGLE SYSTEMS INTERNATIONAL, INC., dba 

SYNERGY COMPANIES (erroneously sued herein as 

Synergy Companies and Eagle Systems International, Inc.) 

DANIELLA PAYES (SBN: 224726 

CHARLES SWANSTON (SBN: 181882) 

B. JAMES FITZPATRICK (SBN: 129056) 

FITZPATRICK, SPINI & SWANSTON 

Attorneys at Law 

838 S. Main Street, Suite E 

Salinas, CA 93901 

Telephone: (831) 755-1311 

Facsimile: (831) 755-1319 

Attorneys for Plaintiff 

EDWARD I. RUANO 

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 

FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 

EDWARD I. RUANO, 

Petitioner, 

v. 

SYNERGY COMPANIES, EAGLE SYSTEMS 

INTERNATIONAL, INC., DEMAND SIDE 

ENVIRONMENTAL, LLC., SAL VACARRO, 

JUAN ORNELAS, and DOES 1 through 20, 

Inclusive, 

Defendants.

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CASE NO. C07-02679 EMC 

 

(Alameda County Superior Court Case No. 

HG 07318073) 

JOINT STIPULATION AND 

[PROPOSED] ORDER ON REMAND 

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STIPULATION

 Plaintiff EDUARD I. RUANO (“Plaintiff”) and Defendant EAGLE SYSTEMS 

INTERNATIONAL, INC., dba SYNERGY COMPANIES (erroneously sued herein as 

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JOINT STIPULATION AND [PROPOSED] 

ORDER ON REMAND Case No. C07-02679 EMC 

GORDON 

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REES, LLP 

ATTORNEYS AT LAW 

EMBARCADERO CENTER WEST 

275 BATTERY STREET, TWENTIETH FLOOR 

SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94111 

(415) 986-5900

Synergy Companies and Eagle Systems International, Inc.) (herein, “Defendant”), through their 

respective counsel, stipulate as follows: 

 1. On March 29, 2007, Plaintiff filed his original Complaint in the Alameda County 

Superior Court, Case No. HG 07318073 (the “State Court”), naming as defendants, SYNERGY 

COMPANIES, EAGLE SYSTEMS INTERNATIONAL, INC., DEMAND SIDE 

ENVIRONMENTAL, LLC., SAL VACARRO, JUAN ORNELAS, and DOES 1 through 20, 

Inclusive (the “Action”); 

 2. On May 23, 2007, Defendant removed the Action on diversity grounds under 28 

U.S.C. § 1332 and 28 U.S.C. § 1441(b) based upon contentions that (a) Defendants Eagle 

Systems and Demand Side Environmental, LLC are Utah corporations with their principal places 

of business in Orem, Utah and Saint George, Utah, respectively; and (b) that individual 

defendants Sal Vaccaro and Juan Ornelas were (collectively, the “Individual Defendants”) 

“sham” defendants; 

 3. Based upon further research, Plaintiff (a) has determined that the legal claims as 

against the Individual Defendants are deficient and that these defendants will be dismissed with 

prejudice from the Action; and (b) alleges that he was also employed by Synergy Enterprises, 

Inc. (“SEI”), allegedly a California corporation. Defendant neither admits nor denies that 

Plaintiff was employed by SEI; 

 4. The Action should be remanded to State Court in order that (a) the Individual 

Defendants may be dismissed from the Action with prejudice, with no costs or fees to be 

imposed on either side; and (b) Plaintiff may file a First Amended adding SEI and Synergy 

Environmental, Inc., another entity for whom Plaintiff alleges he worked; and 

 5. That each of Plaintiff and Defendant, and their respective counsel, believes the 

other has acted in all matters in good and diligent faith with regards to issues of pleadings and 

that no costs or fees should be imposed on either side and that the Action should be remanded 

forthwith to the State Court for further proceedings. 

IT IS SO AGREED: 

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JOINT STIPULATION AND [PROPOSED] 

ORDER ON REMAND Case No. C07-02679 EMC 

GORDON 

&

REES, LLP 

ATTORNEYS AT LAW 

EMBARCADERO CENTER WEST 

275 BATTERY STREET, TWENTIETH FLOOR 

SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94111 

(415) 986-5900

Dated: June 19, 2007 FITZPATRICK, SPINI & SWANSTON 

By: /S/ 

Daniella Payes, Esq. 

Attorneys for Plaintiff EDUARD I. 

RUANO

Dated: June 19, 2007 LAW OFFICE OF JEROME SCHREIBSTEIN 

By: /S/ 

JEROME SCHREIBSTEIN 

Attorneys for Defendant 

EAGLE SYSTEMS INTERNATIONAL, 

INC., dba SYNERGY COMPANIES 

(erroneously sued herein as Synergy 

Companies and Eagle Systems 

International, Inc.) 

ORDER

GOOD CAUSE APPEARING, the above-entitled Action is hereby remanded to the 

Alameda County Superior Court for further proceedings consistent with the parties’ above 

Stipulation. Neither party shall be assessed fees or costs with regards to this order of remand. 

 IT IS SO ORDERED. 

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Dated: HONORABLE EDWARD M. CHEN 

 United Sates Magistrate Judge 

 

June 26, 2007

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORN

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IT IS SO ORDERED

Judge Edward M. Chen

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