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Nature of Suit Code: 791
Nature of Suit: Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA)
Cause of Action: 29:1132 E.R.I.S.A.: Employee Benefits

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STIPULATION AND STIPULATED REQUEST TO CONTINUE DATES

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MICHAEL J. BAKER (No. 56492)

Email: mbaker@howardrice.com

LINDA Q. FOY (No. 148764)

Email: lfoy@howardrice.com

CLARA J. SHIN (No. 214809)

Email: cshin@howardrice.com

MICHAEL L. GALLO (No. 220552)

Email: mgallo@howardrice.com

HOWARD RICE NEMEROVSKI CANADY FALK & RABKIN

A Professional Corporation

Three Embarcadero Center, 7th Floor

San Francisco, California 94111-4024

Telephone: 415/434-1600

Facsimile: 415/217-5910

Attorneys for Defendant, Counterclaimant and Cross-Claimant 

PACIFIC MARITIME ASSOCIATION and Cross-Claimant 

MARITECH CORPORATION

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

SAN FRANCISCO DIVISION

JOSEPH N. MINIACE, an individual,

Plaintiff,

v.

PACIFIC MARITIME ASSOCIATION, a 

California non-profit corporation,

Defendant.

PACIFIC MARITIME ASSOCIATION, a 

California non-profit corporation, and 

MARITECH CORPORATION, a Nevada 

corporation

Counterclaimant and 

Cross-Claimants,

v.

JOSEPH N. MINIACE, an individual; 

JEANNETTE M. COBURN, an individual; 

MICHAEL E. CORRIGAN, an individual; 

BENMARK, INC., a Georgia corporation; 

CORRIGAN & COMPANY; BENMARK 

WEST,

Counterdefendant and 

Cross-Defendants.

No. C 04-03506 SI

Action Filed: July 21, 2004

STIPULATION AND STIPULATED 

REQUEST FOR ORDER TO CONTINUE 

TRIAL DATE, PRETRIAL CONFERENCE 

DATE AND DATE FOR HEARING ON 

CORRIGAN PARTIES’ MOTION RE THE 

COURT’S MARCH 30, 2007 FINDINGS OF 

FACT AND CONCLUSIONS OF LAW

Judge: Honorable Susan Illston

Trial Date: January 22, 2008

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Pacific Maritime Association (“PMA”) and Michael E. Corrigan and Protective Financial and 

Insurance Services, Inc., doing business as Corrigan & Company and Benmark West (the “Corrigan 

Parties”), through their respective counsel, hereby stipulate to continue the trial in the abovereferenced matter from January 22, 2008 to March 18, 2008 or a later date more convenient for the 

Court; to change the date of the pre-trial conference from January 8, 2008 to March 4, 2008 or a 

later date more convenient for the Court; to change the date for the hearing on The Corrigan Parties’ 

Motion Re: The Court’s March 30, 2007 Findings Of Fact And Conclusions Of Law (“Corrigan 

Motion”) from November 16, 2007 to December 21, 2007, or a later date more convenient for the 

Court.

The reasons for this Stipulation and request that the Court enter an Order in accordance 

therewith are as follows:

1. PMA and the Corrigan Parties have agreed to participate in a mediation with former 

Magistrate Judge Hon. Edward A. Infante. Allowing for the schedules of the mediator, party

representatives, carrier representatives, and counsel, the first date available for the mediation is 

December 5, 2007. 

2. PMA and the Corrigan Parties believe that the chances for a successful mediation will 

be improved if they can prepare for and conduct the December 5, 2007, mediation session, and 

additional sessions as necessary, without simultaneously devoting resources to trial preparation. 

3. The trial of PMA’s claims against the Corrigan Parties is currently scheduled for 

January 22, 2008, and the pre-trial conference is currently scheduled for January 8, 2008. As a 

result of this schedule, the parties are currently required to meet and confer and to perform a number 

of tasks—such as designating exhibits, drafting and filing motions in limine, jury instructions and a 

joint a pre-trial statement—in December 2007. The parties would like to defer the expense of those 

activities until it is determined if the mediation will make the effort unnecessary. The parties 

believe that a two-month continuation of the pre-trial conference date and the trial date will allow 

them sufficient time.

4. The parties also request that the hearing on the Corrigan Motion be postponed until after 

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the parties’ mediation session with Judge Infante, and have agreed on a December 21, 2007, hearing 

date if that is convenient for the Court. 

Accordingly, PMA and the Corrigan Parties respectfully request that the Court enter an Order 

in accordance with their foregoing stipulation. 

DATED: October 24, 2007 HOWARD RICE NEMEROVSKI CANADY FALK & 

RABKIN

By: /s/

Michael J. Baker

Attorneys for PACIFIC MARITIME 

ASSOCIATION and MARITECH 

CORPORATION

DATED: October 24, 2007 FORTUNE, DREVLOW, O'SULLIVAN & HUDSON

By: /s/

Peter Fortune

Attorneys for MICHAEL E. CORRIGAN and 

PROTECTIVE FINANCIAL AND 

INSURANCE SERVICES, INC., doing business 

as CORRIGAN & COMPANY and BENMARK 

WEST

PURSUANT TO THE STIPULATION OF COUNSEL, IT IS ORDERED AS FOLLOWS:

1. The trial in the above-referenced matter is continued from January 22, 2008 to March 

18, 2008;

2. The pre-trial conference is continued from January 8, 2008 to March 4, 2008;

3. The hearing on The Corrigan Parties’ Motion Re: The Court’s March 30, 2007 Findings 

Of Fact And Conclusions Of Law is continued from November 16, 2007 to December 21, 2007.

Dated: October ___, 2007

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UNITED STATES DISTRICT JUDGE

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