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Nature of Suit Code: 625
Nature of Suit: Drug Related Seizure of Property
Cause of Action: 21:881 Forfeiture Property - Real Estate

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BRENDA GRANTLAND, ESQ.

California Bar # 165899

20 Sunnyside Suite A-204

Mill Valley, CA 94941

415/380-9108 - telephone

Attorney for Claimant

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA :

 : Case No. 2:06-CV-02824 WBS-GGH

 Plaintiff, :

 : STIPULATION AND [PROPOSED]

 v. : ORDER LIFTING THE STAY

 : AND CONTINUING THE SCHEDULING

REAL PROPERTY LOCATED AT : CONFERENCE

155 TIGER LILY ROAD, PILOT HILL, :

CALIFORNIA, EL DORADO COUNTY :

APN:104-100-26-100, INCLUDING ALL :

APPURTENANCES THERETO, :

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Defendant. : : 

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DONALD KEARNEY, :

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Claimant. : : 

Plaintiff United States of America, and Claimants Donald Kearney, and MERS, Inc. as

nominee for Wells Fargo Bank, N.A., the successor in interest to the original claimant herein,

Washington Mutual Bank, [hereafter “Claimants”], by and through their respective counsel, hereby

stipulate that the stay should be lifted in the above-entitled action. For the reasons set forth below,

the parties request that the Court lift the stay, but continue the scheduling conference (which is

currently set for February 25), to a date after April 4, 2008. 

1. Claimant Donald Kearney was recently convicted and sentenced in his state criminal case,

and therefore the stay is no longer necessary.

2. The parties have been actively engaged in discussions over a proposed scheduling order,

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and appear likely to resolve the scheduling issues by stipulation, which would obviate the need for

a scheduling conference. 

3. AUSA Kristin Door will be out of town all next week conducting a training program, and

will also be out of town the entire week of February 25, the date currently set for the scheduling

conference. Because she has several filings she needs to make before leaving today, she has no

more time to devote to negotiating a schedule before the deadline for the scheduling report. She will

also be out of town the week of March 24-28. Counsel for Claimant MERS, Inc. will be out of town

on April 2-4. Counsel for Claimant Donald Kearney is embroiled in deadlines in three appellate

cases throughout the next three months and would prefer not having to interrupt research and writing

time to appear in court in Sacramento, if it can be avoided.

4. Counsel for Claimant Donald Kearney and Counsel for Claimant MERS, Inc. are both

located in the San Francisco Bay area, and are striving, to the greatest extent possible, to keep their

 attorneys fees down by avoiding court hearings that can be resolved by stipulation. Accordingly,

the parties have been working on a stipulated scheduling conference order, which is nearing

completion but cannot be finished today.

5. The parties promise to resume working on the stipulated scheduling conference statement

upon AUSA Door’s return from her first trip out of town, and hopefully will have it filed before she

leaves for her next out of town trip.

6. Once their stipulated scheduling conference statement is filed, the parties would ask that

the Court enter a scheduling order on the papers and vacate the scheduling conference.

Dated: McGREGOR W. SCOTT

United States Attorney

By /s/ 

KRISTIN S. DOOR

Assistant U.S. Attorney

Attorneys for Plaintiff

United States of America

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Dated: By: /s/ 

BRENDA GRANTLAND

Attorney for Claimant 

Donald Kearney

Dated: By:____/s/____________________

GLENN H. WECHSLER

Attorney for claimant

MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC SYSTEMS, INC.

AS NOMINEE FOR WELLS FARGO

BANK, N.A.

Attorney for Claimant 

(Original signatures of claimants'

attorneys retained by Claimant Kearney’s

counsel)

ORDER

For the reasons set forth above, the stay is hereby lifted and the scheduling conference

scheduled for February 25, 2008 is continued to April 21, 2008 at 2:00 p.m.

IT IS SO ORDERED.

Dated: February 13, 2008

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