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Nature of Suit Code: 893
Nature of Suit: Environmental Matters
Cause of Action: 33:1319 Clean Water Act

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STEPHAN C. VOLKER (SBN 63093)

ALEXIS E. KRIEG (SBN 254548)

STEPHANIE L. CLARKE (SBN 257961)

LAW OFFICES OF STEPHAN C. VOLKER

436 14th

 Street, Suite 1300

Oakland, California 94612

Tel: 510/496-0600

Fax: 510/496-1366

Email: svolker@volkerlaw.com

Attorneys for Plaintiff

CALIFORNIA ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION ASSOCIATION

PETER L. SIMON (SBN 178393)

BEYERS COSTIN SIMON

A Professional Corporation

200 Fourth Street, Suite 400

P.O. Box 878

Santa Rosa, California 95402-0878

Tel: 707/547-2000

Fax: 707/526-2746 

Attorneys for Defendant

SONOMA SOIL BUILDERS, INC., a California corporation

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

CALIFORNIA ENVIRONMENTAL

PROTECTION ASSOCIATION,

Plaintiff,

v.

SONOMA SOIL BUILDERS, INC and

DOES 1-30, inclusive,

Defendants.

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Case No. 4:15-cv-04880-KAW

STIPULATION AND [PROPOSED]

ORDER CONTINUING CASE

MANAGEMENT AND DISCOVERY

DATES

Case Mgmt Conf.: October 4, 2016

Time: 1:30 p.m.

This case involves alleged violations related to storm water pollution statutes and

regulations. The parties are engaged in settlement discussions and to that end, on September 14,

2016, they participated in a conference call with this Court’s ADR Program Case Administrator. 

The parties have requested the assistance of a Magistrate Settlement Judge. The ADR facilitator

indicated she would recommend that the Court assign this case to either a Magistrate Settlement

Conference Judge or a mediator. Due to the Court’s congested calendar, in either event, it

10.579.02

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appears that the settlement conference or mediation will not take place until December, 2016 or

later.

The parties wish to preserve the resources necessary to settle the case, rather than spend

them on case management and discovery procedures. Accordingly, the parties are requesting a

continuance of all current deadlines to allow them to complete either a settlement conference or

a mediation within the next 120 days.

Accordingly, the parties hereby request the Court enter an order as follows:

(1) The parties shall exchange the initial disclosures required under Federal Rule of Civil

Procedure 26(a)(1) no later than February 15, 2017, as agreed upon by stipulation of the parties.

(2) Both plaintiff and defendants shall serve their first interrogatories, requests for

production of documents and requests for admission pursuant to Federal Rules of Civil

Procedure 33, 34 and 36, respectively, no later than March 20, 2017.

(3) Both plaintiff and defendants shall serve their first notices of deposition, pursuant to

Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 30, no later than April 18, 2017. Plaintiff anticipates deposing:

1. Germon Medeiros

2. Person most knowledgeable for Sonoma Soil Builders, Inc.

3. Other witnesses that may be identified in the foregoing deposition and

document discovery as possessing relevant information, for which leave of court under Federal

Rule of Civil Procedure 30(a)(2) will be sought.

Defendants anticipate deposing individuals identified in discovery or at least one

representative from plaintiff.

(4) Depositions of the parties shall commence after July 17, 2017, at mutually

convenient dates and times.

(5) Both plaintiff and defendants shall serve subpoenas upon any third party witnesses

no later than August 21, 2017, seeking the production of documents and/or depositions.

(6) Plaintiff shall serve its experts’ reports upon defendants, pursuant to Federal Rule of

Civil Procedure 26(a)(2), no later than October 23, 2017. The reports shall set forth the facts on

which the expert relies and the process of reasoning by which the expert’s conclusions are

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reached.

(7) Defendants shall serve their experts’ rebuttal reports upon plaintiff, pursuant to

Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 26(a)(2), no later than November 27, 2017.

(8) Depositions of the experts shall commence no later than December 11, 2017 for

plaintiff’s experts and January 22, 2018 for defendants’ experts.

(9) All discovery shall be complete by February 19, 2018.

(10) The parties reserve the right to seek or to schedule additional discovery as may

become necessary, so long as it is completed by March 19, 2018.

In addition, the Case Management Conference will be continued to January 23, 2017.

Dated: September 16, 2016 LAW OFFICES OF STEPHAN C. VOLKER

s/ Stephan C. Volker 

Stephan C. Volker

Attorney for Plaintiff

CALIFORNIA ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION

ASSOCIATION

Dated: September 16, 2016 BEYERS, COSTIN & SIMON

 

Peter L. Simon

Attorneys for Defendant

SONOMA SOIL BUILDERS, LLC

ORDER

IT IS SO ORDERED.

Dated: ________________ _______________________________

KANDIS A. WESTMORE

UNITED STATES DISTRICT MAGISTRATE JUDGE

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