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Nature of Suit Code: 440
Nature of Suit: Other Civil Rights
Cause of Action: 42:12101 Americans w/ Disabilities Act (ADA)

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ABBEY, 

WEITZENBERG,

WARREN 

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EMERY, P.C.

P.O. BOX 1566

Santa Rosa, CA 95402

(707) 542-5050

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ABBEY, WEITZENBERG, WARREN & EMERY, P.C.

LEWIS R. WARREN, ESQ., State Bar 115411

100 Stony Point Road, Suite 200

P.O. Box 1566

Santa Rosa, CA 95402-1566

(707) 542-5050

(707) 542-2589 Fax

Attorneys for Defendants, INDERJIT KALIA and JOY MUKHERJI

SIDNEY J. COHEN PROFESSIONAL CORPORATION

SIDNEY J. COHEN, ESQ., State Bar 39023

427 Grand Avenue

Oakland, CA 94610

(510) 893-6682

(510) 893-9450 Fax

Attorney for Plaintiff, HOLLYNN DELIL

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

HOLLYNN DELIL

Plaintiff,

v.

LOS ROBLES LODGE; LOS ROBLES

RESTAURANT; INDERJIT KALIA; JOY

MUKHERJI; CHOICE HOTELS

INTERNATIONAL, INC.; and DOES 1-25,

inclusive,

 Defendants. 

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Case No. C 04-3660 BZ

Civil Rights

STIPULATION SETTING ASIDE

DEFAULT, AGREEING ON

SETTLEMENT PROCESS, AND

PERMITTING PLAINTIFF TO AMEND

HER COMPLAINT, AND ORDER

THEREON

WHEREAS, Plaintiff had entered the default of, among others, Defendants, Inderjit Kalia

and Joy Mukherji (the “Defendants”) and had scheduled for hearing with the Court on September

21, 2005, her Motion for Default Judgment; 

WHEREAS, the parties through stipulation of counsel continued the foregoing hearing to

October 12, 2005; 

WHEREAS, Defendants claim that because, among other reasons, service was defective,

default should be set aside, and have requested that the default be set aside, and that they be

permitted to appear through counsel Lewis Warren, of Abbey, Weitzenberg, Warren & Emery, in

the within action to file a responsive pleading; 

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ABBEY, 

WEITZENBERG,

WARREN 

&

EMERY, P.C.

P.O. BOX 1566

Santa Rosa, CA 95402

(707) 542-5050

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WHEREAS, Plaintiff claims that service was properly made, but to permit the case to be

resolved on the merits and to avoid the expenditure of time and resources that will likely occur in

the event that the issues relating to the effectiveness of service need to be adjudicated, Plaintiff is

agreeable to setting aside the default subject to the following conditions; 

WHEREAS, Defendants are agreeable to the following conditions in consideration for

Plaintiff’s agreement to set aside the default. 

NOW THEREFORE, in consideration of the foregoing recitals and the terms and provisions

contained herein, the parties hereby stipulate through their counsel as follows:

1. The default, presently entered in the within action, shall be set aside. Counsel for

Plaintiff shall serve on counsel for Defendants, by regular mail and/or facsimile, any and all

pleadings to which a response is required, and service shall be deemed complete and effective upon

the date of transmission. Defendants shall be required to respond within 20 days to any such

pleadings served by facsimile, and within 25 days to any such pleadings served by regular mail. In

the event a response is not timely served to Plaintiff’s first amended complaint, as provided above,

Defendants shall be deemed to have waived any further objection or defense to Plaintiff’s right to

apply for and obtain a default judgment. 

2. Plaintiff claims that she has conducted a preliminary site inspection of certain

portions of the property and its facilities which is the subject of this lawsuit (the “Subject

Property”) and has made findings with respect to certain of the alleged barriers to access at the

Subject Property. Plaintiff further asserts that she requires access to all areas of the Subject

Property in order to conduct a thorough site inspection and make further findings with respect to

any and all alleged barriers to access at the Subject Property in order to ascertain the scope of work

which she asserts is required to bring the Subject Property into compliance with federal and state

disabled access laws and regulations. Defendants agree to provide Plaintiff’s consultant (without

legal counsel) access to all areas of the Subject Property for a site inspection within 15 days from

the date of execution of this Stipulation, with the further understanding that Defendants’ consultant

(without legal counsel) shall be permitted to accompany Plaintiff’s consultant. Plaintiff represents

that her consultant shall prepare a set of findings setting forth Plaintiff’s position with respect to

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WEITZENBERG,

WARREN 

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EMERY, P.C.

P.O. BOX 1566

Santa Rosa, CA 95402

(707) 542-5050

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barriers to access and the scope of work which Plaintiff asserts is required to bring the Subject

Property into compliance with federal and state disabled access laws and regulations, and will

provide Defendants’ counsel with a copy of said findings. 

3. Within 30 days of receipt of Plaintiff’s findings, Defendants’ counsel shall respond

in writing as to (1) which of the findings, if any, Defendants agree to perform, (2) which of the

findings, if any, Defendants do not agree to perform (hereafter the “Open Items”), and (3) the

reasons for not agreeing to perform modifications with respect to the Open Items. The parties

thereafter will meet and confer in an attempt to reach agreement on the Open Items, to agree on a

time frame for the performance of the work which Defendants agree to perform in order to comply

with federal and state disabled access laws and regulations, and to resolve any and all remaining

injunctive relief aspects of the instant action. With respect to modifications to the Subject Property

within Plaintiff’s findings that Defendants agree to perform, and any modifications that Defendants

in fact perform without an agreement, Plaintiff and Defendants agree to and shall execute a consent

decree and order or settlement agreement enforceable by the Court in mutually acceptable form. 

As an alternative, Defendants may close the Subject Property to the public and cease to operate the

Subject Property and facilities as a “public accommodation.” Defendants agree that, in the event

they close the Subject Property to the public, they agree to enter into a consent decree and order or

settlement agreement enforceable by the Court in mutually acceptable form. 

4. If the injunctive relief issues are resolved by consent decree and order or settlement

agreement enforceable by the Court, or if the Subject Property and its facilities are closed to the

public and are no longer a public accommodation, the parties will then meet and confer in an effort

to settle the damages and attorneys’ fees, litigation expenses and cost aspects of the lawsuit. Any

such matters that are so settled shall be the subject of a consent decree and order or settlement

agreement enforceable by the Court. 

5. Defendants, through their counsel, hereby further stipulate to an order granting leave

to Plaintiff to file a second amended complaint for the purpose of adding McHugh Properties, LLC,

as a defendant in the within action, and alleging facts that have been discovered subsequent to the

filing of the original and first amended complaints, and within 60 days of the date of this

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WEITZENBERG,

WARREN 

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EMERY, P.C.

P.O. BOX 1566

Santa Rosa, CA 95402

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Stipulation. 

6. This Stipulation may be signed in counterpart and a facsimile signature shall be

valid and binding as if it were an original. 

WHEREFORE, Plaintiff and Defendants above-named, and each of them, by and through

their attorneys of record, so stipulate. 

Dated: October 6, 2005 ABBEY, WEITZENBERG, 

WARREN & EMERY, P.C.

/s/ Lewis R. Warren

By ____________________________

 Lewis R. Warren

 Attorneys for Defendants Inderjit Kalia and

 Joy Mukherji

Dated: October 6, 2005 SIDNEY J. COHEN PROFESSIONAL CORP.

/s/ Sidney J. Cohen

By _____________________________

 Sidney Cohen

 Attorney for Plaintiff

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ORDER

The parties, through their counsel, having stipulated thereto, and GOOD CAUSE

APPEARING THEREFOR, the Court hereby makes the following order:

1. The default entered against Defendants in the within action shall be, and hereby is,

set aside. 

2. Counsel for Plaintiff shall be permitted to serve on counsel for Defendants, by

regular mail and/or facsimile, any and all pleadings to which a response is required, and service

shall be deemed complete and effective upon the date of transmission. Defendants shall have 20

days to respond to any such pleading served by facsimile, and 25 days to any such pleadings served

by regular mail. In the event a response is not timely served to Plaintiff’s First Amended

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WEITZENBERG,

WARREN 

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EMERY, P.C.

P.O. BOX 1566

Santa Rosa, CA 95402

(707) 542-5050

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Complaint, as provided above, Defendants shall be deemed to have waived any further objection or

defense to Plaintiff’s right to apply for and obtain a default judgment. 

3. All other terms and conditions of the foregoing stipulation are hereby ordered. 

Dated: October 11, 2005

______________________________

BERNARD ZIMMERMAN

United States Magistrate Judge

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