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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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STIPULATION, REQUEST AND [PROPOSED] ORDER TO MODIFY PRETRIAL PREPARATION ORDER - 1

Tim A. Pori (SBN 189270)

Shirley E. Gibson (SBN 206829)

LAW OFFICES OF TIM A. PORI

521 Georgia Street

Vallejo, CA 94590

Tel: (707) 644-4004

Fax: (707) 644-7528

Attorneys for Plaintiff MARC LARZ LISTER

Peter P. Edrington (SBN 074355)

Michael P. Clark (SBN 110917)

EDRINGTON, SCHIRMER & MURPHY

2300 Contra costa blvd. #450

Pleasant Hill, CA 94523

Tel: (925) 827-3300

Fax: (925) 827-3320

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

MARC LARZ LISTER ) Case No. 05-02861 SI

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Plaintiff, ) STIPULATION, REQUEST AND

) [PROPOSED] ORDER TO FURTHER

vs. ) EXTEND EXPERT DISCOVERY

) CUTOFF DATE, PRETRIAL

TREVOR SCHNITZIUS, MICHAEL ) CONFERENCE, AND TRIAL DATE

HULSEY, RICHARD SMITH, JAMES )

LIBBY, G.R. “JERRY” MONGE, )

MARK A. MOCZULSKI, CITY OF ) Honorable Susan Illston

ANTIOCH, and DOES 1 - 60, inclusive )

)

Defendants. )

____________________________________)

The above-named parties and their respective attorneys respectfully request modification

of the Pretrial Preparation Order to extend the expert discovery cutoff, pre-trial conference, and

jury trial date. 

The expert discovery cutoff is currently ordered for December 26, 2006. The court

previously granted a sixty-day extension of the original deadline of October 27, 2006. The parties

requested the previous extension in order to allow the Plaintiff time to obtain new counsel, and to

allow participation of new counsel in all expert depositions. Presently, Plaintiff’s effort to obtain

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new counsel has been delayed pending the court’s ruling on the Defendants’ and Plaintiff’s

motions for summary judgment. As the ruling will be the primary factor in potential counsel’s

decision to represent Plaintiff, and the parties are reluctant to proceed with expert discovery until

the viability of Plaintiff’s claims is determined, the parties now seek further extension of the

expert discovery cutoff. The parties propose that the expert discovery cutoff be set thirty days

from the date of the court’s order stating a ruling on Plaintiff’s Motion for Partial Summary

Judgment and Defendants’ Motion for Summary Judgment.

The parties request further modification to the court’s scheduling order to extend the

dates for pre-trial conference, presently set on March 6, 2007, and jury trial, presently set to begin

on March 19, 2007. Good cause for this request exists based upon the above-stated factors. 

Furthermore, good cause exists to extend the trial and pre-trial dates because Plaintiff’s current

attorney of record, Tim A. Pori, is unable to effectively represent Plaintiff and conduct a trial due

to illness. Mr. Pori has been diagnosed with cancer, requiring chemotherapy treatments and

major surgery in January or February 2007. Plaintiff needs time to obtain new counsel and for

new counsel to prepare for trial. Accordingly, the parties propose a new pretrial conference date

on or about August 6, 2007, at the court’s convenience, and a new trial date on or about August

20, 2007, at the court’s convenience.

LAW OFFICES OF TIM A. PORI

Dated: December 19, 2006 By: /s/ Shirley e. Gibson 

SHIRLEY E. GIBSON

Attorney for Plaintiff 

EDRINGTON, SCHIRMER & MURPHY

Dated: December 18, 2006 By: /s/ Michael P. Clark (Authorized 12/18/06)

MICHAEL P. CLARK

Attorney for Defendants

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[PROPOSED] ORDER 

Based on this stipulation and good cause having been shown,

IT IS HEREBY ORDERED that the current Pretrial Preparation Order dates are

continued, as follows:

CURRENT DATE: NEW DATE:

Expert Discovery cutoff December 26, 2006 Thirty (30) days from 

entry of ruling on motions

for summary judgment

Pretrial Conference: March 6, 2007 ____________________

(August 6, 2007, if avail.) 

 

Trial Date: March 19, 2007 ____________________

(August 20, 2007, if avail.) 

Dated: __________________ _________________________________

SUSAN ILLSTON

United States District Judge

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