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Nature of Suit Code: 423
Nature of Suit: Bankruptcy Withdrawal 28 USC 157
Cause of Action: 28:0157 Motion for Withdrawal of Reference

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STIPULATION AND [PROPOSED] ORDER REGARDING SETTLEMENT IN PRINCIPLE

Marie L. Fiala (State Bar No. 79676) 

Peter J. Benvenutti (State Bar No. 60566) 

Russell P. Cohen (State Bar No. 213105) 

HELLER EHRMAN LLP 

333 Bush Street 

San Francisco, CA 94104-2878 

Telephone: (415) 772-6000 

Facsimile: (415) 772-6268 

Email: Marie.Fiala@hellerehrman.com 

Gary M. Kaplan (State Bar No. 155530) 

HOWARD RICE NEMEROVSKI CANADY FALK & RABKIN 

A Professional Corporation 

Three Embarcadero Center, Seventh Floor 

San Francisco, CA 94111-4024 

Telephone (415) 434-1600 

Facsimile (415) 217-5910 

Email: gmkaplan@howardrice.com 

Attorneys for Defendant PACIFIC GAS AND ELECTRIC COMPANY 

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 

SAN FRANCISCO DIVISION 

PUBLIC UTILITY DISTRICT NO. 2 OF 

GRANT COUNTY, WASHINGTON, 

Plaintiff, 

vs. 

PACIFIC GAS AND ELECTRIC COMPANY, 

Defendant. 

 Case No.: C 07-03243 JSW 

Chapter 11 Case 

Bankr. Case No. 01-30923 DM 

STIPULATION REGARDING 

SETTLEMENT IN PRINCIPLE; 

[PROPOSED] ORDER THEREON 

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STIPULATION AND [PROPOSED] ORDER REGARDING SETTLEMENT IN PRINCIPLE

Pursuant to Local Rule 7-7, Plaintiff Public Utility District No. 2 of Grant County, 

Washington (“Grant County”) and Defendant Pacific Gas and Electric Company (“PG&E”), by and 

through their respective attorneys of record, hereby stipulate and agree, and respectfully request an 

order of the Court, as follows: 

WHEREAS, Grant County filed in this Court its Motion for (I) Withdrawal of Reference of 

Proof of Claim and (II) Transfer of Venue Thereof to the United States District Court for the 

Eastern District of Washington (Docket No. 1) (the “Withdrawal Motion”); 

WHEREAS, Grant County also has filed in connection with the Withdrawal Motion its 

Motion to Strike Notice of December 4 Order by Judge Wendell Mortimer, Jr. of the Los Angeles 

County Superior Court (Docket No. 33) (the “Motion to Strike”), which was set for hearing on 

March 7, 2008 (the “March Hearing”); 

WHEREAS, the Court entered an order on January 8, 2008 (Docket No. 37) setting a 

briefing schedule on the Motion to Strike, including establishing deadlines of January 18, 2008 to 

file an opposition to the Motion to Strike and January 25, 2008 to file a reply brief to any such 

opposition (the “Reply Deadline”); 

WHEREAS, on January 15, 2008, PG&E filed an opposition to the Motion to Strike 

(Docket No. 38); 

WHEREAS, on January 24, 2008, the parties filed a joint notice with the Court indicating 

that the parties have agreed to a settlement in principle and are in the process of entering into a 

written settlement agreement; and 

WHEREAS, because the settlement, once final, will render the Withdrawal Motion and 

Motion to Strike moot, the parties desire that the Court hold in abeyance a ruling on the Withdrawal 

Motion and Motion to Strike, cancel the March Hearing and suspend the Reply Deadline pending 

finalization of the written settlement. 

NOW THEREFORE, the parties hereto stipulate and agree: 

1. Pending further order of the Court while the parties finalize the settlement in 

principle of the Withdrawal Motion and Motion to Strike: (a) the Court shall hold in abeyance 

rulings on the Withdrawal Motion and the Motion to Strike; (b) the March Hearing is cancelled 

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with respect to the Motion to Strike; and (c) the Reply Deadline is suspended. 

The parties hereto respectfully request that the Court enter an Order according to these 

stipulated terms. 

Dated: January 24, 2008 Respectfully submitted, 

HOWARD RICE NEMEROVSKI CANADY 

FALK & RABKIN 

A Professional Corporation 

HELLER EHRMAN LLP

By ___________/s/________

 

Peter J. Benvenutti 

Attorneys for Defendant 

PACIFIC GAS AND ELECTRIC COMPANY 

JONES DAY 

By ___________/s/________

 Peter G. McAllen 

Attorneys for Plaintiff 

PUBLIC UTILITY DISTRICT NO. 2 OF GRANT 

COUNTY, WASHINGTON

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ORDER

PURSUANT TO STIPULATION, IT IS SO ORDERED. 

DATED: , 2008 

 Honorable Jeffrey S. White 

 United States District Judge 

January 25

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