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Nature of Suit Code: 310
Nature of Suit: Airplane Personal Injury
Cause of Action: 28:2671 Federal Tort Claims Act

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STIPULATION AND PROPOSED ORDER TO 

CONTINUE INITIAL SCHEDULING CONFERENCE 

AND FILING OF JOINT STATUS REPORT

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BENJAMIN C. MIZER

Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General

BENJAMIN B. WAGNER

United States Attorney

GREGORY T. BRODERICK

Assistant United States Attorney

STEVEN A. KIRSCH

steven.kirsch@usdoj.gov

Senior Trial Counsel

Torts Branch, Civil Division

U.S. Department of Justice

Post Office Box 14271

Washington, DC 20044-4271

Phone: (202) 616-4048

Fax: (202) 616-4159

Attorneys for Defendants United States of

America and Beale Aero Club 

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

James M. Grogan,

Plaintiff,

v.

Beale Aero Club, John Henry; United

States of America; and DOES 1-30,

Defendants.

No. 2:15-CV-00562-GEB-KJN

STIPULATION and [PROPOSED] ORDER 

TO CONTINUE INITIAL SCHEDULING

CONFERENCE AND FILING OF JOINT 

STATUS REPORT 

This is a personal injury action against the United States pursuant to the Federal Tort 

Claims Act (“FTCA”) and John Henry, an individual Defendant who has not appeared in this 

action. The action was initiated in state court on January 14, 2015. The United States removed 

the action to this Court on March 12, 2015. The Court issued an Order Setting Status (Pretrial 

Scheduling) Conference the same day. In that Order, the Court set a pretrial scheduling 

conference for June 22, 2015. The Order also requires the parties to confer and develop a 

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proposed discovery plan by June 1, 2015 and submit a Joint Status Report by June 8, 2015. The 

United States has filed a Motion to Dismiss arguing that the Court lacks jurisdiction over the 

FTCA component of the case because Plaintiff did not exhaust administrative remedies before 

filing suit. The motion is now fully briefed and was submitted without argument pursuant to the 

Court’s May 5, 2015 minute order.

Given the dispositive nature of the motion with respect to the United States, the parties 

agree that it would be more efficient for the Court to resolve the Motion to Dismiss before setting 

a schedule or engaging in other proceedings, and that the initial scheduling conference and 

development and filing of the Joint Status Report should be continued until after such resolution. 

Therefore, the undersigned parties stipulate to continue the initial scheduling conference to a date 

approximately 21 days after the Motion to Dismiss is resolved, with the Joint Status Report due 

fourteen days before the new date of the initial scheduling conference.

Respectfully submitted,

DATED: May 29, 2015 BENJAMIN C. MIZER

Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General

BENJAMIN B. WAGNER

United States Attorney

GREGORY T. BRODERICK

Assistant United States Attorney

/s/ Steven A. Kirsch 

STEVEN A. KIRSCH

Senior Trial Counsel

Torts Branch, Civil Division

U.S. Department of Justice

Post Office Box 14271

Washington, DC 20044-4271

Phone: (202) 616-4048

Fax: (202) 616-4159

steven.kirsch@usdoj.gov

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STIPULATION AND PROPOSED ORDER TO 

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AND FILING OF JOINT STATUS REPORT

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DATED: May 29, 2015 /s/ Kristoffer S. Mayfield (authorized on 5/29/2015)

Anthony S. Petru, Esq., State Bar No. 91399

Kristoffer S. Mayfield, Esq., State Bar No. 241093

Bradley W. Wahrlich, Esq., State Bar No. 261762

HILDEBRAND, McLEOD & NELSON, LLP

Westlake Building

350 Frank H. Ogawa Plaza, Fourth Floor

Oakland, CA 94612 -2006

Phone: (800) 447-7500

Fax: (510) 465-7023

warlich@hmnlaw.com

The pretrial scheduling conference is rescheduled for August 3, 2015, at 9:00 a.m. 

A joint status report shall be filed fourteen days prior to the hearing.

IT IS SO ORDERED.

Dated: May 29, 2015

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