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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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570030.1

JOINT STIPULATION AND [PROPOSED] ORDER 

WITHDRAWING VIRGINIA MARTINEZ AS A CLASS

REPRESENTATIVE

BILL LANN LEE 

(State Bar No. 108452)

blee@lchb.com

DANIEL M. HUTCHINSON

(State Bar No. 239458)

dhutchinson@lchb.com

LIEFF, CABRASER, HEIMANN

 & BERNSTEIN, LLP

Embarcadero Center West

275 Battery Street, Suite 3000

San Francisco, CA 94111-3339

Telephone: (415) 956-1000

Facsimile: (415) 956-1008

Attorneys for Plaintiffs Sylvia Darensburg, 

Virginia Martinez, Vivian Hain, and the 

Proposed Class; and Plaintiff Communities 

for a Better Environment

[Additional Plaintiffs’ counsel listed at 

end]

KIMON MANOLIUS (State Bar No. 154971)

WARREN WEBSTER (State Bar No. 209540)

JULIA H. VEIT (State Bar No. 209207)

KARIN M. ARNOLD (State Bar No. 228565)

HANSON BRIDGETT MARCUS

 VLAHOS & RUDY, LLP

425 Market Street, 26th Floor

San Francisco, CA 94105

Telephone: (415) 777-3200

Facsimile: (415) 541-9366

jveit@hansonbridgett.com

FRANCIS F. CHIN (State Bar No. 059231)

CYNTHIA E. SEGAL (State Bar No. 179636)

METROPOLITAN TRANSPORTATION 

COMMISSION

Joseph P. Bort Metrocenter

101 8th Street

Oakland, CA 94607-4700

Telephone: (510) 817-5700

Facsimile: (510) 817-5848

Attorneys for Defendant Metropolitan

Transportation Commission

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

SYLVIA DARENSBURG, VIRGINIA 

MARTINEZ, and VIVIAN HAIN, 

individuals on behalf of themselves and all 

others similarly situated; 

AMALGAMATED TRANSIT UNION, 

LOCAL 192; and COMMUNITIES FOR A 

BETTER ENVIRONMENT,

Plaintiffs,

v.

METROPOLITAN TRANSPORTATION 

COMMISSION,

Defendant.

Case No. C-05-1597-EDL

JOINT STIPULATION AND [PROPOSED] 

ORDER WITHDRAWING VIRGINIA 

MARTINEZ AS A CLASS

REPRESENTATIVE _______

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JOINT STIPULATION AND [PROPOSED] ORDER 

WITHDRAWING VIRGINIA MARTINEZ AS A CLASS

REPRESENTATIVE

STIPULATION

WHEREAS, Virginia Martinez was named as a putative class representative in this 

action;

WHEREAS, for personal reasons, Virginia Martinez seeks to withdraw as a 

representative plaintiff on behalf of the putative class in this matter; and

WHEREAS, the parties therefore have agreed that Virginia Martinez should be 

permitted to withdraw as a putative class representative in this matter.

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

respective counsel of record, that Virginia Martinez be removed as a class representative in this 

action.

SO STIPULATED.

Dated: November 3, 2006 LIEFF, CABRASER, HEIMANN & 

BERNSTEIN, LLP

By: /s/ 

Bill Lann Lee

Bill Lann Lee 

Daniel M. Hutchinson 

Embarcadero Center West

275 Battery Street, Suite 3000

San Francisco, CA 94111-3339

Telephone: (415) 956-1000

Facsimile: (415) 956-1008

Attorneys for Plaintiffs Sylvia Darensburg, 

Virginia Martinez, Vivian Hain, and the 

Proposed Class; and Plaintiff Communities for 

a Better Environment

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JOINT STIPULATION AND [PROPOSED] ORDER 

WITHDRAWING VIRGINIA MARTINEZ AS A CLASS

REPRESENTATIVE

Peter D. Nussbaum

Daniel T. Purtell

Linda Lye 

ALTSHULER, BERZON, NUSSBAUM, 

RUBIN & DEMAIN

177 Post Street, Suite 300

San Francisco, CA 94108

Telephone: (415) 421-7151

Facsimile: (415) 362-8064

Attorneys for Plaintiff Amalgamated Transit

Union Local 192

Richard Marcantonio

Guillermo Mayer

Elisabeth Voigt 

PUBLIC ADVOCATES, INC.

131 Steuart Street, Suite 300

San Francisco, CA 94105 

Telephone: (415) 431-7430 

Facsimile: (415) 431-1048 

Attorneys for Plaintiffs Sylvia Darensburg, 

Virginia Martinez, Vivian Hain, and the 

Proposed Class

Adrienne L. Bloch 

COMMUNITIES FOR A BETTER 

ENVIRONMENT

1440 Broadway, Suite 701

Oakland, CA 94612

Telephone: (510) 302-0430

Facsimile: (510) 302-0438

Attorneys for Plaintiff Communities for a 

Better Environment

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REPRESENTATIVE

Dated: November 3, 2006 HANSON BRIDGETT MARCUS VLAHOS 

& RUDY, LLP

By: : /s/ 

Kimon Manolius

Kimon Manolius

Warren R. Webster

Julia H. Veit

425 Market Street, 26th Floor

San Francisco, CA 94105

Telephone: (415) 777-3200

Facsimile: (415) 541-9366

FRANCIS F. CHIN (State Bar No. 059231)

CYNTHIA E. SEGAL (State Bar 

No. 179636)

METROPOLITAN TRANSPORTATION 

COMMISSION

Joseph P. Bort Metrocenter

101 8th Street

Oakland, CA 94607-4700

Telephone: (510) 817-5700

Facsimile: (510) 817-5848

Attorneys for Defendant

Metropolitan Transportation Commission

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JOINT STIPULATION AND [PROPOSED] ORDER 

WITHDRAWING VIRGINIA MARTINEZ AS A CLASS

REPRESENTATIVE

ORDER

PURSUANT TO STIPULATION, IT IS SO ORDERED.

Dated: ____________________

The Honorable Elizabeth D. Laporte

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November 13, 2006

U

NITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

IT IS SO ORDERED

Judge Elizabeth D. Laporte

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