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Nature of Suit Code: 355
Nature of Suit: Motor Vehicle Product Liability
Cause of Action: 28:1446 Petition for Removal

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PARTIES’ JOINT STIPULATION 

K&E 10318239.3

Julie Ahrens (SBN 230170) 

KIRKLAND & ELLIS LLP 

555 California Street 

San Francisco, CA 94104-1501 

Telephone: (415) 439-1400 

Facsimile: (415) 439-1500 

Jonathan D. Selbin (State Bar No. 170222) 

Lisa J. Leebove (State Bar No. 186705) 

H. John Gutierrez (State Bar No. 235406) 

LIEFF, CABRASER, HEIMANN & BERNSTEIN, LLP 

Embarcadero Center West 

275 Battery Street, 30th Floor 

San Francisco, CA 94111 

Telephone: (415) 956-1000 

Facsimile: (415) 956-1008 

Robert B. Ellis, P.C. 

Scott F. Hessell 

KIRKLAND & ELLIS LLP 

200 East Randolph Drive 

Chicago, IL 60601 

Telephone: (312) 861-2000 

Facsimile: (312) 861-2200 

James Belford Brown (State Bar No. 83355) 

Jennifer A. Scott (State Bar No. 204234) 

HERUM CRABTREE BROWN, a California corporation

2291 West March Lane, Suite B100 

Stockton, CA 95207 

Telephone: (209) 472-7700 

Facsimile: (209) 472-7986 

Lawrence S. Buonomo 

Office of the General Counsel 

General Motors Corporation 

400 Renaissance Center 

P.O. Box 400, MC 482-026-601 

Detroit, MI 48265-4000 

Attorneys for Defendant 

GENERAL MOTORS CORPORATION

John W. Rasmussen 

Dale W. Robinson 

Jay M. Allen 

JOHNSON, RASMUSSEN, ROBINSON & 

 ALLEN, P.L.C. 

48 North MacDonald Street 

Mesz, AZ 85201 

Telephone: (480) 964-1421 

Facsimile: (480) 433-7311 

Attorneys for Plaintiffs and the Proposed Class

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 

EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 

JASON BERTINO, ET AL., 

Plaintiffs, 

vs. 

GENERAL MOTORS CORPORATION, 

Defendant. 

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Case No. 2:05-cv-889 

Judge Garland E. Burrell Jr. 

PARTIES’ JOINT STIPULATION

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PARTIES’ JOINT STIPULATION

PARTIES’ JOINT STIPULATION

The parties submit this stipulation to extend the time that GM may answer Plaintiffs’ 

First Amended Complaint as described below: 

1. On this date, May 6, 2004 GM filed an ex parte motion requesting a thirty 

(30) day extension of time in which to answer or to otherwise respond to Plaintiffs’ First Amended 

Complaint (doc. # 3). 

2. The parties have now come to an agreement regarding this issue. The parties 

hereby stipulate and agree that GM shall have twenty (20) days to respond to Plaintiffs’ First 

Amended Complaint. GM shall file and serve its response to Plaintiffs’ First Amended Complaint 

on or before May 26, 2005. 

3. This agreement supercedes and extinguishes GM’s prior request for an 

extension of time. 

4. Nothing in this stipulation shall constitute or be interpreted as an agreement 

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PARTIES’ JOINT STIPULATION

on the part of Plaintiffs that federal jurisdiction is appropriate, or a waiver of Plaintiffs’ right to seek 

remand of this action to the San Joaquin County Superior Court. 

Dated: May 6, 2005 

KIRKLAND & ELLIS LLP 

By: /s/ Julie A. Ahrens

 Julie A. Ahrens 

 Attorney for Defendant 

 GENERAL MOTORS CORPORATION 

Dated: May 6, 2005 

LIEFF, CABRASER, HEIMANN & BERNSTEIN, LLP 

By: /s/ Lisa J. Leebove

 Lisa J. Leebove1

 Attorney for Plaintiffs 

 JASON BERTINO, DONALD W. HEMANS, ET. AL

Good cause appearing, IT IS SO ORDERED2

DATED: May 10, 2005 

 /s/ Garland E. Burrell, Jr. 

 GARLAND E. BURRELL, JR. 

 United States District Judge 

 

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 Counsel e-filing this document represents that she has obtained the permission of all plaintiffs’ counsel to file this 

Stipulation on the plaintiffs’ behalf. 

2 This ruling moots defendant’s Ex Parte Motion filed May 6, 2005. 

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