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Nature of Suit Code: 340
Nature of Suit: Marine Personal Injury
Cause of Action: 28:1333 Admiralty

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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

Case No. 2:21-cv-01067-TLN-CKD

ORDER APPROVING STIPULATION FOR 

VALUE AND LETTER OF UNDERTAKING,

DIRECTING CLAIMANTS TO FILE AND 

MAKE PROOF OF CLAIMS, DIRECTING 

THE ISSUANCE OF MONITION, AND 

RESTRAINING PROSECUTION OF 

CLAIMS

IN RE: COMPLAINT AND PETITION OF 

WILLIAMS SPORTS RENTALS, INC. doing 

business as SKI RUN BOAT COMPANY, as 

Owner of a certain Ski Run Boat Numbered 

SR # 57 FOR EXONERATION FROM OR 

LIMITATION OF LIABILITY

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Notice is hereby given that WILLIAMS SPORTS RENTALS, INC. dba SKI RUN BOAT 

COMPANY (“Petitioner”) as owner of a certain recreational ski boat SR #57 (hereinafter “the 

Vessel”) has filed a Complaint on June 16, 2021 pursuant to 46 U.S.C. §§ 30501, et seq., and 

Supplemental Admiralty Rule F, claiming the right to exoneration from, or alternatively, limitation 

of liability for, all claims arising out of a claimed incident on or about in South Lake Tahoe, 

California, involving CHASTITY NEFZGER and ARIANA NEFZGER. Petitioner was the owner 

of the Vessel at the time of and after the July 25, 2018 incident, and on considering the Complaint 

and Stipulation for Value of the vessel, which are on file, stating the value of the Vessel to be 

THIRTY-FOUR THOUSAND DOLLARS ($34,000.00);

IT IS HEREBY ORDERED that the Court approves the stipulation for value and the 

security in the form of the letter of undertaking (See Complaint of Dammers, et al., 836 F.2d 750, 

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753, n.2 (2d Cir. 1988)); and it is further

ORDERED that a Monition issue against all persons having such claims for any and all 

losses, personal injuries, destruction of property, as alleged in Petitioner’s Complaint for 

Exoneration from or Limitation of Liability must file them as provided by Rule F of the 

Supplemental Rules for Certain Admiralty and Maritime Claims with the Clerk of this Court, Keith 

Holland, U.S. District Court Eastern District of California, Robert T. Matsui Federal Courthouse, 

501 I Street, Room 4-200 Sacramento, California 95814, and serve on or mail copies to 

Petitioner’s attorney, B. Otis Felder, Esq., WILSON, ELSER, MOSKOWITZ, EDELMAN & 

DICKER LLP 525 Market Street, 17th Floor, San Francisco, California 94105-2725, on or before 

September 1, 2021, subject to the rights or any person claiming damages who shall have presented 

a claim to answer the Complaint and to controvert, or be defaulted and forever barred from such a 

claim, and that any claimant desiring to contest Petitioner’s right to exoneration from or limitation 

of liability must file an Answer to Petitioner’s original complaint and/or a claim as required by 

Rule F(4)–(5) of the Supplemental Rules, and serve or mail a copy to Petitioner’s attorney; and it 

is further

ORDERED, that public notice of the Monition be given by publication in a newspaper 

published in the Eastern District of California, such publication in said papers to be for at least four 

successive weeks before the return date of this Order demanding the presentation of all claims 

against Petitioner as well as that Petitioner give notice as to counsel for CHASTITY NEFZGER 

and ARIANA NEFZGER; and it is further

ORDERED, that the beginning or continued prosecution of any and all suits, actions or 

legal proceedings of any nature or description whatsoever, except in the present proceeding, in 

respect of any claim arising out of, consequent upon, or in connection with the aforesaid incident 

on the Vessel on July 25, 2018, described in the Complaint for Exoneration from or Limitation of 

Liability, are hereby stayed and restrained until the hearing and termination of this proceeding.

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IT IS SO ORDERED. 

DATED: June 29, 2021

Troy L. Nunley

United States District Judge

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