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Nature of Suit Code: 442
Nature of Suit: Civil Rights Employment
Cause of Action: 42:1983 Civil Rights (Employment Discrimination)

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Stipulation to Change Time (05-3396 WHA)

PAMELA Y. PRICE (SBN 107713)

P. BOBBY SHUKLA, ESQ. (SBN 229736)

OK-HEE SHIM, ESQ. (SBN 240998)

PRICE AND ASSOCIATES

A Professional Law Corporation

1617 Clay St.

Oakland, CA 94612

Telephone: (510) 452-0292

Facsimile: (510) 452-5625

Email: pypesq@aol.com

Attorneys for Plaintiff NOHEMI LAZCANO

KEVIN V. RYAN (SBN 118321)

United States Attorney

JOANN M. SWANSON (SBN 88143)

Chief, Civil Division

ABRAHAM A. SIMMONS (SBN 146400)

Assistant United States Attorney

450 Golden Gate Avenue,10th Floor

San Francisco, California 94102-3495

Telephone: (415) 436-7264

Facsimile: (415) 436-6748

Email: abraham.simmons@usdoj.gov

Attorneys for the Postmaster General 

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

NOHEMI LAZCANO,

Plaintiff,

v.

JOHN E. POTTER, IN HIS OFFICIAL

CAPACITY AS POSTMASTER

GENERAL,

Defendant.

 

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STIPULATED REQUEST FOR ORDER

CHANGING TIME; DECLARATION

OF COUNSEL; 

[PROPOSED] ORDER 

Pursuant to Civil Local Rule 6-2, the parties hereby submit the following stipulated request for

order changing time by which the mediation in this case must be completed. The current deadline for

completing the mediation is April 11, 2006. The parties agree and request that the Court approve a

mediation on May 31, 2006. This will permit defendant sufficient time to complete the requisite discovery

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in order to ensure that the mediation will be as productive as possible.

Respectfully submitted,

 PRICE AND ASSOCIATES KEVIN V. RYAN

United States Attorney

Dated: April 6, 2006 /s/ /s/ 

 P. Bobby Shukla ABRAHAM A. SIMMONS

 Attorneys For Plaintiff Assistant United States Attorney

[PROPOSED] ORDER

Good cause appearing, the stipulation is approved. The mediation may occur as scheduled on

May 31, 2006. 

______________________ ____________________________

Date United States District Judge

4/10/06

U

NITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

Judge William Alsup

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Declaration of Counsel

I, ABRAHAM A. SIMMONS, declare as follows:

1. I am an Assistant United States Attorney in the Northern District of California and I

have been assigned to represent the government in the above-captioned matter. If

called to testify I would and could competently testify as to the facts in this

declaration.

2. This case was referred to mediation at the January 12, 2006, Initial Case Management

Conference. According to ADR Local Rule 6-4(b), the deadline for completing the

mediation, absent court order, is April 11, 2006. 

3. The pre-mediation conference call in this case did not occur until March 30, 2006. 

The mediator is Greta W. Schnetzer. She explained to the parties during the call that

there were delays in her receipt of the case.

4. At the conference call, the parties discussed the nature of the relief that would be

sought and other aspects of the case. I came to the conclusion that I would not be able

fairly to evaluate the positions that plaintiff was taking with respect to the relief she

would be seeking at the mediation without first taking plaintiff’s deposition. Further, I

do not think it would be in the government’s interest to take the plaintiff’s deposition

until after defendant receives responses to interrogatories and document requests. 

Although the paper discovery has been prepared, it is not yet due. 

5. It will be possible to receive defendant’s discovery responses, take plaintiff’s

deposition and then and conduct the mediation by May 31, 2006. The parties and the

mediator all are agreeable to this mediation date. 

6. Because it likely would be fruitless to attempt to mediate the matter earlier than

May 31, 2006, I believe that extending the deadline for mediation until that date would

help ensure that the mediation will be as effective as possible.

I declare under penalty of perjury under the laws of the United States that the above is true and

accurate. Executed this April 4th day in April, 2006, in San Francisco, California.

________/s/_________________________

ABRAHAM A. SIMMONS

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