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Nature of Suit Code: 440
Nature of Suit: Other Civil Rights
Cause of Action: 42:1983 Civil Rights Act

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JEROME M. VARANINI, ESQ. (State Bar No. 58531)

THE LAW OFFICES OF JEROME M. VARANINI

641 FULTON AVENUE, Suite 200

SACRAMENTO, CA (95825)

P.O. BOX 590

SACRAMENTO, CA 95812-0590

TELEPHONE: (916) 993-4868

Attorney For Defendants

ROBERT EURY, ANN HAMPTON and CFMG

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

STEPHANY BORGES, individually

and as successor-in-interest to

Daren Borges

Plaintiff,

vs.

CITY OF EUREKA, MICHAEL STELZIG;

BRYON FRANCO; JOHN DRAKE

GOODALE; COUNTY OF HUMBOLDT;

SHERIFF MICHAEL DOWNEY; TIM

HERSHBERGER; DAVID SWIM, TERRI

BITTNER; TIM HAMMER; LEO BASLER; 

CALIFORNIA FORENSIC MEDICAL

GROUP, INCORPORATED, ROBERT

EURY; ANN HAMPTON and DOES 1-10,

inclusive;

Defendants.

______________________________/

CASE NO. 4:15-CV-00846

UNOPPOSED APPLICATION OF

DEFENDANTS CFMG, ET AL FOR

PERMISSION TO APPEAR AT

SETTLEMENT CONFERENCE BY PHONE

AND PROPOSED ORDER

Date: October 16, 2015

Time: 10:30

Judge: Nandor Vadas

Defendants hereby request permission from the court to allow the

claims representative for these requesting defendants, Ms. Myrna Nieves,

from Ironshore Insurance, located in Farmington, Connecticut, and the Vice

President for CFMG, Mrs. Elaine Hustedt, from Monterey, to appear by

telephone at the settlement conference set for October 16, 2015, with Hon.

Nandor Vadas.

Defendants have agreed that with the court’s permission that

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plaintiff may appear by phone and all counsel have agreed, again with

court permission, that the CFMG representatives may also appear by phone.

Counsel for these requesting defendants will personally appear at

the settlement conference. Defendants’ representatives have participated

in multiple prior settlement conferences in both the Northern District and

Eastern District including approved appearances by phone.

Currently, defendants have recently received the results of vitreous

fluid testing for level of methamphetamine in the decedent’s body

performed by experts retained by plaintiff’s counsel; those results

reflect a massive level of that drug in the decedent’s system at the time

of death. These new test results as well as the results of a review of all

of the pertinent medical records, including the coroner’s report and other

records are under consultant review as well as multiple recent depositions

that have recently been completed. The deposition of the plaintiff has

been set, as a courtesy to her and her counsel, on October 7, 2015 in

Oakland.

 It is respectfully suggested that the representatives of defendants

appearance by phone will not adversely effect the discussions by all

parties and the input of the court.

Dated: October 2, 2015 LAW OFFICES OF JEROME M. VARANINI

 /S/ JEROME VARANINI 

By: Jerome M. Varanini 

Attorney For Defendants 

ROBERT EURY, ANN HAMPTON and CFMG

[PROPOSED} ORDER GRANTING DEFENDANTS’ REQUEST FOR 

TELEPHONIC APPEARANCE AT SETTLEMENT CONFERENCE

The court having read and considered the request by defendants for

permission to appear by phone at the settlement conference in this matter

set for 10:30 a.m.,October 16, 2015, in McKinleyville and finding good

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cause, hereby grants permission for telephone appearances by Mrs. Elaine

Hustedt and Ms. Myrna Nieves, the representatives of defendants.

Dated: 

 

HON. NANDOR J. VADAS

 Magistrate Judge

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