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Nature of Suit Code: 440
Nature of Suit: Other Civil Rights
Cause of Action: 28:1441 Petition for Removal- Civil Rights Act

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JOINT CASE MANAGEMENT STATEMENT for 12-01-06 CMC and Proposed Order 

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GREGORY M. FOX, ESQ., SBN 70876 

BERTRAND, FOX & ELLIOT 

The Waterfront Building 

2749 Hyde Street 

San Francisco, CA 94109 

Telephone: 415.353.0999 

Facsimile: 415.353.0990 

HARVEY E. LEVINE, Esq. SBN 61880 

CITY OF FREMONT 

City Attorney’s Office 

39100 Liberty St. 

P.O. Box 5006 

Fremont, CA 94537-5006 

Attorneys for Defendants CITY OF FREMONT 

and ANTONIO DELGADO 

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 

JASON McDERMOTT, 

 Plaintiff, 

 vs.

ANTONIO DELGADO, FREMONT POLICE 

DEPARTMENT, CITY OF FREMONT, DOES 

1THROUGH 20, INCLUSIVE, 

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Case No.: C 06-00372 JSW 

JOINT CASE MANAGEMENT 

STATEMENT AND [PROPOSED] ORDER 

CONTINUING TIME TO COMPLETE ENE

Case Management 

Conference Date: December 1, 2006 

Time: 1:30 p.m. 

Courtroom: 2, 17th Floor 

 San Francisco, CA 

Honorable Jeffrey S. White 

 The parties hereby submit the following Joint Case Management Case Statement. This case 

has been delayed since August of 2006 because of plaintiff’s incarceration. At the request of the 

parties, filed as part of the last Joint Case Management Conference Statement for the August 18, 

2006 Case Management Conference, this Court cancelled the August 18, 2006 Case Management 

Conference and issued revised trial and pretrial dates and scheduling Order dated August 11, 2006. 

Plaintiff has been recently released from custody. The parties are therefore now ready to 

proceed with ENE, discovery and related matters. 

 Because the revised August 11, 2006 Order did not include a change of the original August 

31, 2006 date to complete ENE the parties again respectfully request the Court amend its original 

Order and issue a new Order allowing for ENE to be completed on or before January 30, 2007. ENE 

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could not be completed by the end of August 2006 because of plaintiff’s incarceration. Now that he 

is released he is able to attend the ENE. 

 Plaintiff McDermott brings suit contending defendant Sgt. Delgado of the Fremont Police 

Department used unreasonable force when he shot plaintiff once during an altercation in a parking lot 

in Fremont, California on October 3, 2003. Plaintiff pled guilty to some charges arising from the 

incident but they apparently did not involve Sgt. Delgado. Following dismissal of all of the charges 

related to Sgt. Delgado plaintiff brought suit in the Alameda County Superior Court alleging 

violations of his federal civil rights and related state torts. The City removed the case to federal court 

and all defendants filed their answer. 

 The Court held the initial Case Management Conference on Friday, April 28, 2006 and 

following the CMC issued its Order setting a trial date for April 9, 2007, requiring completion of 

ENE by August 31, 2006 and setting other time limits on discovery. The parties completed their 

initial disclosures. The parties had agreed that conducting ENE before incurring the expense of 

formal discovery and related pre-trial motion work was the most prudent way to proceed given the 

facts and circumstances of the case and the plaintiff’s limited special damages. 

 ENE evaluator Wendy Rouder, Esq. was assigned to conduct the ENE session and the parties 

conducted their initial scheduling conference call on June 26, 2006. All parties agreed that the ENE

would be conducted on August 29, 2006 with all named parties appearing in person as required by 

the applicable court rules. 

 As discussed above, plaintiff’s counsel was then notified that his client, the plaintiff Jason 

McDermott, has been incarcerated at the end of July for a parole violation with a sentence of 

approximately 7 months. Because of his incarceration he was not available to attend the ENE session 

or otherwise participate in formal discovery. 

 The parties notified the ENE evaluator of this development and she cancelled the conference 

room at the federal building that had been reserved for the August 29, 2006 ENE session and further 

advised the parties that she agreed that a court order will be necessary to allow ENE to continue past 

the cut-off date of August 31, 2006. 

The parties, acting by and through their respective counsel respectfully requested the Court to 

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amend its Scheduling Order and continue the time for completion of ENE evaluation, trial date and 

all other related pre-trial discovery and motion time limits until plaintiff is released from custody and 

is available to personally attend the ENE and formal discovery. The Court granted the parties’ 

request, cancelled the last scheduled CMC and issued a new trial date and scheduling order dated 

August 11, 2006. There is still a need for an Order allowing additional time for the ENE and the 

parties request additional time until the end of January 2007 to complete the ENE session. 

DATED: November 17, 2006 BERTRAND, FOX & ELLIOT 

By: /s/ 

 GREGORY M. FOX 

 Attorney for Defendants CITY OF FREMONT 

 and ANTONIO DELGALDO 

DATED: November 17, 2006 

 /s/ 

 ANDREW J. KOPP 

 Attorney for Plaintiff JASON McDERMOTT 

ATTORNEY ATTESTATION 

 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: November 17, 2006 

 /s/ 

 ANDREW J. KOPP 

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ENE COMPLETION DATE ORDER 

 Good cause appearing the request of the parties is granted and it’s SO ORDERED that ENE 

in the above captioned matter shall be completed on or before January 30, 2007. 

Dated: ___________________ 

 

 

 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT JUDGE 

The Case Management Conference Set for December 1, 2006 is VACATED. The parties shall appear for a 

further case management conference on April 6, 2007, and shall submit a joint case management conference 

statement updating the Court on the progress of the case by March 30, 2007. November 20, 2006

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