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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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Gregory M. Fox, State Bar No. 070876 

BERTRAND, FOX & ELLIOT 

The Waterfront Building 

2749 Hyde Street 

San Francisco, California 94109 

Telephone: (415) 353-0999 

Facsimile: (415) 353-0990 

Harvey E. Levine, Esq., State Bar No. 61880 

City Attorney City of Fremont 

3300 Capitol Avenue 

PO Box 5006 

Fremont, CA 94537-5006 

Telephone: (510) 284-4030 

Facsimile: (610) 284-4031 

Attorneys for Defendants 

CITY OF FREMONT and CRAIG STECKLER 

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 

NICHOLAS JACKALONE and LUCIA 

JACKALONE, 

 Plaintiffs, 

 vs. 

CITY OF FREMONT, a municipal corporation; 

CRAIG STECKLER in his official capacity as 

Chief of Police for the City of Fremont; NICK 

MAURER, individually and in his official 

capacity as a Police Officer for the City of 

Fremont; DOES 1-25, inclusive, 

 Defendants. 

Case No.: C09-02956 MHP

STIPULATION AND [PROPOSED] 

ORDER TO EXTEND DEADLINE FOR 

COMPLETION OF EARLY NEUTRAL 

EVALUATION AND TO SET DISPOSTIVE 

MOTION HEARING DATE 

 

The Parties, by and through their respective counsel, hereby stipulate and respectfully request 

the Court extend the deadline by which the parties must participate in and complete Early Neutral 

Evaluation and complete briefing and a hearing on a motion for summary judgment. 

 Good cause for this extension is based on the following. Both plaintiffs and a BART station 

agent have been deposed about the incident involving off duty defendant former police officer 

MAURER. Based on that testimony the defendant CITY and Chief of Police believe that there is no 

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liability under federal law for these defendants and the plaintiffs respectfully disagree. Because the 

witnesses testimony is undisputed both parties now believe the City and Chief of Police should 

proceed to file and serve a Motion for Summary Judgment based on the undisputed witness testimony 

and applicable law on municipal liability. The Court’s decision on the MSJ may resolve the liability 

of the City and Chief. If the motion is denied for some reason it may frame the issue(s) that would 

result in an Early Neutral Evaluation session that will be more beneficial to the parties. To that end, 

the parties respectively request that the Court set a dispositive motion hearing date wherein this issue 

may be resolved, with the City and Chief’s motion for summary judgment to be filed Monday, July 

19, 2010, plaintiffs’ opposition brief to be filed Monday, August 16, 2010. The City and Chief’s 

reply brief to be filed Monday August 30, 2010. The hearing on the MSJ to be heard Monday 

September 13, 2010 and the time for completion of the ENE to be 30 days after the Court issues its 

ruling on the MSJ. 

 The parties intend, with the court’s continued permission, to conduct limited discovery 

focused upon the municipal defendant’s degree of liability, if any. The parties anticipate engaging in 

some written discovery and plaintiffs intend to depose no more than two of the BART Police Officers 

that responded to the scene of the incident. Of course, plaintiff would preferably like to depose 

defendant Maurer, however, defendant Maurer has not appeared in the case, despite being personally 

served with the summons and complaint on March 19, 2010. Plaintiffs intend to petition the court for 

entry of a default judgment against defendant Maurer. 

 In light of the foregoing, the parties respectfully request that the Court continue the deadline 

by which the parties must complete ENE to October 30, 2010, or 30 days after the filing of the 

Court’s ruling on the MSJ, and set a dispositive motion hearing date for Monday September 13, 2010. 

Respectfully submitted, 

 /s/ 

Dated: June 2, 2010 Adante D. Pointer 

 Attorney for Plaintiffs 

 

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Dated: June 2, 2010 BERTRAND, FOX & ELLIOT 

By: /s/ 

Gregory M. Fox 

 Attorney for Defendants 

 CITY OF FREMONT and 

 CHIEF STECKLER 

ORDER

GOOD CAUSE APPEARING, the Court hereby orders that the deadline by which the parties 

must complete Early Neutral Evaluation be continued to October 30, 2010, or 30 days after the Court 

rules on the City’s Motion for Summary Judgment, whichever date occurs later. The Court further 

orders that a dispositive motion hearing date be set for Monday, September 13, 2010, with any and 

all briefing to comply with the applicable Federal Rules of Civil Procedure and the Local Rules and 

as set forth above by stipulation of the parties with regard to the filing of the motion, opposition and 

reply briefing. 

Dated: 

 Honorable Marilyn Hall Patel 

 United States District Judge 

June 4, 2010

U

NITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

IT IS SO ORDERED

Judge Marilyn H. Patel

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