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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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M IG U EL M Á R Q U E Z

County Counsel

County of Santa Clara

S an Jose, California

Stipulation and Request for Order Modifying Case

Management Order; Declaration of David M. Rollo -1- 08-02473 PVT

MIGUEL MÁRQUEZ, County Counsel (S.B. #184621)

DAVID M. ROLLO, Deputy County Counsel (S.B. #111998)

OFFICE OF THE COUNTY COUNSEL

70 West Hedding, East Wing, 9 Floor th

San Jose, California 95110-1770

Telephone: (408) 299-5900

Facsimile: (408) 292-7240

Attorneys for Defendants

COUNTY OF SANTA CLARA, SANTA

CLARA COUNTY SHERIFF’S

DEPARTMENT, DEPUTY ENG,

DEPUTY ANDERSON AND DEPUTY

ROGERS

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

(SAN JOSE)

NICK MASTERS, )

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Plaintiff, )

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v. )

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COUNTY OF SANTA CLARA, et al., )

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Defendants. )

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No. 08-02473 PVT

STIPULATION AND REQUEST FOR

ORDER MODIFYING CASE

MANAGEMENT ORDER; DECLARATION

OF DAVID M. ROLLO

COME NOW THE PARTIES who have stipulated to the following request for an Order

modifying the Case Management schedule and order as follows:

CURRENT SCHEDULE/ORDER PROPOSED NEW SCHEDULE/ORDER

Expert Discovery Cutoff......August 13, 2010 New Fact Discovery Cutoff

Regarding Plaintiff’s Damages

Final Pretrial Conference.....August 24, 2010 Claims ONLY...............December 17, 2010 

Jury Trial..............................September 20, 2010 Expert Discovery 

Cutoff............................February 18, 2011

 Final Pretrial 

Conference.....................March 8, 2011

Jury Trial.......................March 28, 2011

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County Counsel

County of Santa Clara

S an Jose, California

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Management Order; Declaration of David M. Rollo -2- 08-02473 PVT

This Stipulation and proposed Order is accompanied by the Declaration of David M. 

Rollo attached hereto.

IT IS SO STIPULATED.

Dated: July 20, 2010 By: /S/ 

B. ROBERT ALLARD, Esq.

Attorney for Plaintiff

I hereby attest that I have on file the holograph signature for the signature indicated by a

“conformed” signature (/S/) within this e-filed document.

Dated: July 20, 2010 Respectfully submitted,

MIGUEL MÁRQUEZ

County Counsel

By: /S/ 

DAVID M. ROLLO

Deputy County Counsel

Attorneys for Defendants

 ORDER

The Court has considered the Stipulation to modify the case schedule and Case

Management Order. The Court makes the following Order pursuant to the Stipulation and

modifies the Case Management Order as follows:

Fact Discovery Cutoff-Regarding Plaintiff’s Damages ONLY. . . . . . . . . . . . December 17, 2010

Expert Discovery Cutoff. ......................................... February 18, 2011

Final Pretrial Conference. ............................................ March 8, 2011

Jury Trial. ....................................................... March 28, 2011

PURSUANT TO STIPULATION, IT IS SO ORDERED.

Date: _____________________ _____________________________________ 

 MAGISTRATE PATRICIA V. TRUMBULL

 United States District Court Judge

July 21, 2010

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County Counsel

County of Santa Clara

S an Jose, California

Stipulation and Request for Order Modifying Case

Management Order; Declaration of David M. Rollo -3- 08-02473 PVT

DECLARATION OF DAVID M. ROLLO IN SUPPORT OF

 STIPULATION AND REQUEST FOR ORDER

I, David M. Rollo, declare as follows;

1. I am employed as a Deputy County Counsel for the County of Santa Clara and am

duly licensed to practice law before this Court and all California courts. I am attorney of record

for the defendants herein.

2. This request for an order modifying the case schedule and Case Management Order 

is jointly made pursuant to stipulation and is the result of counsel for both parties having met 

and conferred regarding the existing case schedule, unanticipated discovery issues, and 

calendaring conflicts with other matters set for trial.

3. The defendants appeared in this matter by way of their answer on June 20, 2008.

The original Case Management Order set a fact discovery cutoff date of May 15, 2009 and an 

expert discovery cutoff date of July 24, 2009. The initial trial date was set for December 7, 

2009. In the first quarter of 2009, counsel for defendants was tied up with a case set for trial

in the Colorado District Court in April, and thereafter encountered some health problems that 

resulted in several inpatient procedures and treatment. These issues impacted the completion of

discovery and the Court granted a request to move the fact and expert discovery cutoff dates on

May 18, 2009. In the meantime, the parties completed an ENE on May 5, 2009.

4. Following the ENE, it became apparent that plaintiff’s medical condition and 

damages claims had changed significantly from what had been discovered and disclosed up to

that time. At the same time, defense counsel’s availability continued to be impacted by some 

ongoing health issues, and the concurrent fact discovery cutoff date in another Northern 

District matter Watson v. County of Santa Clara (N.D. Cal. No. C06-4029 RMW). Counsel

for defendants herein is the lead trial counsel for the County in the Watson case which at that 

time was the subject of a one hundred page complaint and had involved over 50 depositions.

Counsel for plaintiff had multiple trials set in the months following the ENE and likewise

had limited availability. In light of these considerations, the Court granted a request to modify

the Case Management Order and moved the fact discovery cutoff date to October 2, 2009 and 

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the expert discovery cutoff date to November 20, 2009. A new trial date of March 29, 2010 

was also set by the Court.

5. Plaintiff underwent a defense medical exam in September, 2009 and the fact 

discovery cutoff date of October 2, 2009 passed with the exception that plaintiff’s deposition 

was completed by stipulation on December 2, 2009. No further disclosures regarding any 

further surgeries or treatment on the part of the plaintiff were made until recently as part of 

the meet and confer process before trial. In December 2009, I was advised by my cardiologist

that a surgical procedure for my ongoing heart arrhythmia condition was recommended, and this 

procedure was scheduled for and took place in February, 2010. This resulted in my becoming 

unavailable for most of March and April, 2010. Also, the Watson case was set for trial on May 

10, 2010 and was expected to take up to three months for trial. Plaintiff’s counsel had 

scheduling conflicts for most of June and July 2010. The parties requested a further

modification of the Case Management Order in light of these facts which the Court granted on 

December 31, 2010. The expert discovery cutoff date was moved to July 16, 2010, and the 

current Pretrial conference date of August 24 and trial date of September 20, 2010 was set.

6. On May 20,2010 Judge Whyte issued an Order on multiple motions for summary

judgment in the Watson case which had been heard in December, 2009 and subsequently issued

a Case Management Order setting the remainder of that case for trial on November 1, 2010. 

Pursuant to the scheduling order in that case, experts are to be disclosed on August 6, 

with expert discovery closing on September 17. The last day to meet and confer and 

lodge/file all pretrial motions/documents is September 29. This schedule directly conflicts with 

the current trial date of September 20 in the Masters case and I am trial counsel for both cases 

for the County.

7. Counsel for both parties in Masters began the meet and confer process regarding

pretrial preparation. I was advised by Mr. Allard that he had trial and discovery conflicts 

impacting his availability in this case in September. More importantly, I was informed that Mr. 

Masters had undergone surgery following the close of discovery in October, 2009 and the 

completion of his deposition in December, and that his current condition is dramatically

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different than that testified to at his second day of deposition in December, 2009. Mr. Masters

continues to have residual medical complications and unexpected treatments that have not been 

subject to discovery by defendants or evaluation by defendants experts. I am informed that 

plaintiff’s damages claims are considerably different than what has been presented in discovery,

 so different in fact that I believe that an Order re-opening fact discovery for the limited purpose 

of investigating those claims is necessary in order for defendants to fairly evaluate and defend

this case. Counsel for plaintiff has agreed to re-opening discovery for this limited purpose.

8. In light of the changed circumstances, and the fact that the earlier ENE essentially

dealt with a different case, the parties have agreed to pursue mediation in the interim period 

between now and the dates set forth for the pretrial conference and trial in this stipulation and 

proposed Order. The parties are meeting and conferring regarding the selection of a mediator

and the scheduling of a mediation in the fall.

I declare under penalty of perjury that the foregoing is true and correct and would so 

testify. I executed this Declaration on July 20, 2010 at San Jose, California.

 /S/ 

DAVID M. ROLLO

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