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Nature of Suit Code: 890
Nature of Suit: Other Statutory Actions
Cause of Action: 28:1345 Property Damage

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BENJAMIN B. WAGNER

United States Attorney

KELLI L. TAYLOR

RICHARD M. ELIAS

Assistant United States Attorneys

United States Courthouse

501 “I” Street, Suite 10-100

Sacramento, California 95814

Telephone: (916) 554-2700

Attorneys for the United States

IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA,

 Plaintiff,

v.

SIERRA PACIFIC INDUSTRIES, et al.,

 Defendants.

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AND RELATED CROSS ACTIONS

CASE NO. 2:09-cv-02445-KJM-EFB

STIPULATION AND ORDER FOR PARTIAL

RESOLUTION OF THE UNITED STATES’

MOTION TO COMPEL SIERRA PACIFIC

INDUSTRIES’ RESPONSES TO

INTERROGATORIES AND REQUESTS FOR

PRODUCTION OF DOCUMENTS

Date: August 10, 2011

Time: 10:00 a.m.

Courtroom: Courtroom 24

Trial Date: March 14, 2012

Plaintiff the United States and Defendant Sierra Pacific Industries, by and through their

respective counsel of record, hereby submit the following stipulation to partially resolve the United

States’ pending Motion to Compel:

I. RECITALS

1. This action arises from a fire known as the Moonlight Fire that ignited on private land

adjacent to the Plumas National Forest on September 3, 2007.

2. On July 20, 2011, the United States filed a notice of motion to compel Sierra Pacific’s

responses to specified interrogatories and requests for production of documents. (Court Docket (“CD”)

#248.) On August 3, 2011, the parties filed a joint statement, chart of disputed discovery and

declarations and exhibits regarding this discovery dispute. (CD #260, 261.) The parties continued to

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meet and confer and have now partially resolved the matters at issue in the motion as specified herein.

II. STIPULATION

1. Sierra Pacific Industries will provide supplemental responses to the United States’

interrogatories, set one, Nos. 1, 9, 12, 18, 20-23.

2. Sierra Pacific Industries will provide supplemental responses to the United States’

requests for production, set one, Nos. 44, 45, 48-51.

3. Sierra Pacific Industries will provide supplemental responses to the United States’

requests for production, set two, Nos. 127, 130, 148, 159, 172-178, 199-202.

4. Sierra Pacific Industries will provide supplemental responses to the United States’

requests for production, set three, Nos. 218-219, 222-224, 227-229, 230-234, 256, 258-261, 334-336,

398-401, 403-404, 406-407, 434-437.

5. Sierra Pacific Industries will provide supplemental responses to the United States’

requests for production, set four, No. 490.

6. Sierra Pacific Industries will also make a supplemental production of documents as

indicated in its supplemental responses.

7. The United States will withdraw from the Motion to Compel requests Nos. 142, 145,

220, 225, 226, 263, 398, 442, and 492.

8. The requests that the United States and SPI were unable to reach an agreement on and

that remain the only issues in the pending motion to compel are requests Nos. 137, 491 (John Forno

personnel file and position application); Nos. 77, 443 (methodology/calculation other fires); Nos. 235-

240 (Fred’s fire damages); and No. 441 (all docs re equipment caused fires).

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IT IS SO STIPULATED.

Respectfully submitted,

BENJAMIN B. WAGNER

United States Attorney

Date: August 9, 2011 /s/ Kelli L. Taylor By: KELLI L. TAYLOR

RICHARD ELIAS

Assistant United States Attorneys

Attorneys for the United States of America

DOWNEY BRAND, LLP

Date: August 9, 2011 /s/ Annie Amaral By: ANNIE AMARAL

MEGHAN BAKER

Attorneys for Defendant/Cross-Defendant

Sierra Pacific Industries

ORDER

The Court hereby approves the partial resolution of the United States’ motion to compel Sierra

Pacific Industries’ responses to requests for production of documents and interrogatories. The

remaining matters will be addressed at the discovery hearing scheduled for August 10, 2011. 

IT IS SO ORDERED.

___________________________________ Date: August 10, 2011. Honorable Edward J. Edmund F. Brennan

United States Magistrate Judge

Eastern District of California

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