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Nature of Suit Code: 110
Nature of Suit: Insurance
Cause of Action: 28:1441 Petition for Removal- Breach of Contract

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Stipulation and Order to Defer Joint Status Report Case No. 2:05-CV-00688-DFL-PAN 

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ANN K. JOHNSTON, ESQ. (SBN 145022) 

DENISE A. RUELAS, ESQ. (SBN 135777) 

BERGER KAHN 

A Law Corporation 

1682 Novato Boulevard, Suite 250 

Novato, CA 94947 

Tel: (415) 899-1770 • Fax: (415) 899-1769 

Attorneys for Defendant 

TRANSPORTATION INSURANCE COMPANY 

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 

EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA, SACRAMENTO DIVISION

RUBSTELLO, INC., fka EXERCISE 

EQUIPMENT CENTER, INC., 

JAMES RUBSTELLO, LEO 

RUBSTELLO, FAYE RUBSTELLO, 

and DAWN RUBSTELLO, 

Plaintiffs, 

vs. 

TRANSPORTATION INSURANCE 

COMPANY and DOES 1 through 10, 

inclusive, 

Defendants. 

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CASE NO. 2:05-CV-00688-DFL-PAN 

STIPULATION AND ORDER TO 

DEFER JOINT STATUS REPORT 

JUDGE: Hon. David F. Levi 

COURTROOM: 7 

DATE ACTION FILED: 9/6/2004 

TRIAL DATE: None Set 

WHEREAS, Defendant TRANSPORTATION INSURANCE COMPANY 

(“Defendant”) filed a Motion to Dismiss that is presently set for hearing before this Court 

on June 22, 2005; 

WHEREAS, pursuant to this Court’s April 8, 2005, Order Requiring Joint Status 

Report, a report is presently due on June 7, 2005; 

WHEREAS, it is not in the interest of judicial economy for the parties to prepare a 

joint status report prior to obtaining a ruling on the pending motion; 

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IT IS HEREBY STIPULATED by and between the parties, through their attorneys 

of record, that the deadline for filing a Joint Status Report should be extended to 21 days 

after the Court serves its ruling on Defendant’s pending Motion to Dismiss. 

DATED: April 20, 2005. DOWNEY BRAND LLP 

By: 

DEBBIE J. VOROUS, ESQ. 

Attorneys for Plaintiffs 

RUBSTELLO, INC., fka EXERCISE 

EQUIPMENT CENTER, INC., JAMES 

RUBSTELLO, LEO RUBSTELLO, FAYE 

RUBSTELLO, and DAWN RUBSTELLO 

DATED: April 25, 2005. BERGER KAHN, A Law Corporation 

By: 

DENISE A. RUELAS 

Attorneys for Defendant 

TRANSPORTATION INSURANCE 

COMPANY 

ORDER

PURSUANT TO STIPULATION, IT IS HEREBY ORDERED THAT: 

The parties’ deadline for preparing and filing a Joint Status Report is deferred to 

21 days after this Court serves its ruling on Defendant’s pending Motion to Dismiss. 

DATED: 4/29, 2005 ___/s/ David F. Levi______________ 

 HON. DAVID F. LEVI 

 UNITED STATES DISTRICT JUDGE 

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DECLARATION OF DENISE A. RUELAS 

I, DENISE A. RUELAS, declare as follows: 

1. I am an attorney at law duly licensed to practice before all of the courts of 

the State of California and am a principal of Berger Kahn, A Law Corporation, attorneys 

of record for Defendant Hartford Underwriters Insurance Company. The following facts 

are known to me, and if called as a witness, I could and would testify competently 

thereto. 

2. Concurrence in the filing of the foregoing Stipulation and Order to Defer 

Joint Status Report has been obtained from each of the signatories indicated on page two 

of the Stipulation. 

I declare under penalty of perjury under the laws of the United States of America 

that the foregoing is true and correct and that this declaration was executed within the 

United States on April 25, 2005. 

By: /s/ 

 DENISE A. RUELAS 

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CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE 

I am over the age of eighteen years and not a party to the within action. I am 

employed by Berger Kahn, A Law Corporation, 1682 Novato Boulevard, Suite 250, 

Novato, California 94947 ("the firm"). 

On April 25, 2005, I served the within documents described as: 

STIPULATION AND ORDER TO DEFER JOINT STATUS REPORT 

on the interested parties in this action as set forth below. 

by placing the original a true copy thereof enclosed in a sealed envelope 

addressed as follows: addressed as stated on the attached mailing list 

Debbie J. Vorous, Esq. 

Downey Brand LLP 

555 Capitol Mall, 10th Floor 

Sacramento, CA 95814 

Tel: (916) 444-1000 

BY OVERNIGHT MAIL--I placed said envelope for collection by Golden State 

Overnight, following ordinary business practices, at the business offices of Berger 

Kahn for collection and processing of correspondence with said overnight mail 

service, and said envelope will be deposited with said overnight mail service on 

said date in the ordinary course of business. 

I am “readily familiar” with the firm’s practice of collection and processing of 

correspondence for service with said overnight mail service. It is deposited with 

said overnight mail service on that same day in the ordinary course of business. I 

am aware that, on motion of a party served, service is presumed invalid if the said 

overnight delivery service cancellation date or delivery date on the overnight 

delivery service slip is more than one day after the date of deposit with said 

overnight delivery service contained in this affidavit. 

X BY E-FILING THE DOCUMENT – resulting in an automatically generated 

e-mail message pursuant to Local Rule No. 5-135(g)(1). 

Executed on April 25, 2005, at Novato, California. 

 /s/ 

 Denise A. Ruelas 

 

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