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Nature of Suit Code: 442
Nature of Suit: Civil Rights Employment
Cause of Action: 42:1983 Civil Rights Act

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STIPULATION TO CONTINUE HEARING DATE --- Hamidi v. SEIU Local 1000 Page 1

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W. JAMES YOUNG, Esq.

c/o National Right to Work Legal

Defense Foundation, Inc.

8001 Braddock Road, Suite 600

Springfield, Virginia 22160

(703) 321-8510

STEVEN R. BURLINGHAM, Esq.

California Bar No. 88544

Gary, Till & Burlingham

5330 Madison Avenue, Suite F

Sacramento, California 95841

(916) 332-8122

Facsimile — (916) 332-8153

ATTORNEYS FOR PLAINTIFFS AND

THE CLASS THEY SEEK TO REPRESENT

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

 

KOUROSH KENNETH HAMIDI, et al., AND CASE NO. 2:14-CV-319-GEB-KJN

THE CLASS THEY SEEK TO REPRESENT

CLASS ACTION

Plaintiffs,

STIPULATION TO CONTINUE HEARING

v. DATE ON, AND SET BRIEFING SCHEDULE

FOR, PLAINTIFFS’ MOTION FOR CLASS

SERVICE EMPLOYEES INTERNATIONAL UNION CERTIFICATION; PROPOSED ORDER

LOCAL 1000, AND JOHN CHIANG, Controller, THEREON

State of California;

Defendants.

TO THE COURT:

The parties to the above-captioned case hereby submit the following stipulation to 

continue the hearing date on Plaintiffs’ previously-noticed Motion for class certification from 20 

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April 2015, and to set a briefing schedule for the filing and service of the reply brief thereon. 

WHEREAS, on 15 August 2014, Plaintiffs noticed their motion for class certification to 

be heard on 22 September 2014; 

WHEREAS, the parties to the above-captioned case had previously agreed that, after 

Plaintiffs noticed that motion, the hearing on the motion would be stayed to permit Defendants to 

conduct discovery relevant to the class certification issue, and so informed the Court in their 

Revised Joint Status Report, Doc. No. 20 at 3:15-18; and

WHEREAS, the parties to the above-captioned case had previously agreed to continue 

the originally-noticed hearing date and briefing schedule in order to provide the Plaintiffs 

additional time to respond to Defendant SEIU Local 1000’s written discovery requests and to 

provide Local 1000 sufficient time to depose the Plaintiffs after receiving their responses, and 

thus stipulated to postpone the hearing to 20 April 2015 (Docket Nos. 27 & 28); and

WHEREAS, due to the voluminous nature of Defendant SEIU Local 1000’s Opposition 

(Docket Nos. 39-42, inclusive), and the press of other matters including, but not limited to 

Plaintiffs’ counsel’s: (1) preparation and filing on this date of an opposition to a motion for a 

supersedeas (injunction pending appeal) filed and served on 1 April 2015, with the Pennsylvania 

Supreme Court; (2) oral argument before the United States Court of Appeals for the District of 

Columbia Circuit on 7 April 2015, in a case long-delayed by the United States Supreme Court’s 

consideration of and decision in National Labor Relations Board v. Noel Canning, 134 S.Ct. 

2550 (2014); and (3) unforeseen illness since the filing of Defendants’ Oppositions to the Motion 

(Docket Nos. 38-42, inclusive), the parties now wish to set a briefing schedule for reply on the 

class certification motion so that Plaintiffs will have sufficient time to prepare their reply; 

THEREFORE, the parties hereby stipulate as follows: 

1. The hearing on Plaintiffs’ pending motion for class certification shall be 

continued from April 20, 2015, to May 18, 2015, at 2:00 p.m., the Court’s next available hearing 

date;

2. This stipulation shall constitute sufficient notice of that continuance, so that 

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Plaintiffs need not file an amended notice of motion. 

3. Any reply in support of Plaintiffs’ class certification motion shall be filed and 

served, as per the Local Rules, on or before May 8, 2015. 

DATED: 8 April 2015

Respectfully submitted,

/s/ Steven R. Burlingham /s/ Kim L. Nguyen (as authorized 4/9/15)

STEVEN R. BURLINGHAM, Esq. KAMALA D. HARRIS

California Bar No. 88544 Attorney General of California

Gary, Till & Burlingham MARK R. BECKINGTON

5330 Madison Avenue, Suite F Supervising Deputy Attorney General

Sacramento, California 95841 KIM L. NGUYEN

(916) 332-8122 Deputy Attorney General

Facsimile — (916) 332-8153 State Bar No. 209524

steveb@gtblaw.com 300 South Spring Street, Suite 1702

Los Angeles, CA 90013

/s/ W. James Young Telephone: (213) 897-5677

Fax: (213) 897-5775

W. JAMES YOUNG, Esq. Kim.Nguyen@doj.ca.gov

c/o National Right to Work Legal

Defense Foundation, Inc. ATTORNEYS FOR DEFENDANT CALIFORNIA STATE

8001 Braddock Road, Suite 600 CONTROLLER

Springfield, Virginia 22160

(703) 321-8510

Facsimile — (703) 321-9319

wjy@nrtw.org

ATTORNEYS FOR PLAINTIFFS AND

THE CLASS THEY SEEK TO REPRESENT

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JEFFREY B. DEMAIN (SBN 126715)

EVE H. CERVANTEZ (SBN 164709)

P. CASEY PITTS (SBN 262463) 

Altshuler Berzon LLP

177 Post Street, Suite 300

San Francisco, California 94108

Telephone: (415) 421-7151

Facsimile: (415) 362-8064

jdemain@altshulerberzon.com

ecervantez@altshulerberzon.com

cpitts@altshulerberzonl.com

YORK J. CHANG (SBN 220450)

ANNE M. GIESE (SBN 143934)

SEIU Local 1000

1808 14th Street

Sacramento, California 95811

Telephone: (916) 554-1279 

Facsimile: (916) 554-1292

ychang@seiu1000.org

agiese@ seiu1000.org 

/s/ Jeffrey B. Demain (as authorized 4/9/15)

ATTORNEYS FOR DEFENDANT SEIU 

LOCAL 1000

IT IS SO ORDERED. 

Dated: April 10, 2015

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CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE

I, W. James Young, counsel for Plaintiffs, hereby certify that I electronically filed with the 

Clerk of Court the foregoing STIPULATION TO CONTINUE HEARING DATE ON, AND SET

BRIEFING SCHEDULE FOR, PLAINTIFFS’ MOTION FOR CLASS CERTIFICATION; PROPOSED

ORDER THEREON, using the CM/ECF system which will send notification of such filing to 

Defendants’ counsel, this 9th day of April, 2015.

 /s/ W. James Young 

W. JAMES YOUNG

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