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Nature of Suit Code: 350
Nature of Suit: Motor Vehicle Personal Injury
Cause of Action: 28:1441 Petition for Removal- Tort/Motor Vehicle (P.I.)

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McGREGOR W. SCOTT

United States Attorney

JOHN F. GISLA, SB #42829

Assistant U.S. Attorney

501 I Street, Suite 10-100

Sacramento, California 95814

Telephone: (916) 554-2740

Attorneys for the United States

IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

DANIEL LEROY FASBENDER

Plaintiff,

v.

JAY HARLIE POWER; U.S. DEPARTMENT

OF AGRICULTURE FOREST SERVICE;

DOES 1 TO 100, Inclusive,

Defendants.

Case No. 2:06-CV-00572-GEBKJM

STIPULATION AMENDING

COMPLAINT; ORDER

It is stipulated between the parties as follows:

1. At the time of the incident that is the subject of

plaintiff's suit, defendant JAY HARLIE POWER was an employee of the

United States Forest Service, Department of Agriculture, an agency

of the United States of America, and was acting within the scope of

his federal employment. A federal employee acting in the scope of

federal employment is absolutely immune under the Federal Tort

Claims Act from liability for common law torts. 28 U.S.C. §

2679(b)(1).

2. Under the Federal Tort Claims Act, the United States of

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America is the only proper defendant. 28 U.S.C. § 2679(b)(1).

3. The Federal Rules of Civil Procedure do not provide for

suing fictitious parties, and a suit naming Doe defendants may not

be maintained in federal court.

4. The parties therefore stipulate that JAY HARLIE POWER and

all other named defendants, including the Doe defendants, be

dismissed from this action, and that the United States of America be

substituted as the sole defendant.

DATED: April 11, 2006 McGREGOR W. SCOTT

United States Attorney

 By: /s/ John F. Gisla 

JOHN F. GISLA

Assistant United States Attorney

Attorneys for the United States

DATED: April 7, 2006 FRANCIS & ASSOCIATES

By: /s/ Richard L. Francis 

RICHARD L. FRANCIS

Attorneys for Plaintiff

IT IS SO ORDERED:

Dated: April 25, 2006

/s/ Garland E. Burrell, Jr.

GARLAND E. BURRELL, JR.

United States District Judge

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CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE

The undersigned hereby certifies that she is an employee in the

office of the United States Attorney for the Eastern District of

California, and is of such age and discretion to be competent to

serve papers.

That on April 11, 2006, she served a copy of:

STIPULATION AMENDING COMPLAINT; ORDER

by placing said copy in postpaid envelopes addressed to the persons

at the place and addresses shown below, which are the last known

addressees, and deposited said envelopes and in the United States

mail in Sacramento, California.

Addressee(s):

Richard L. Francis, Esq.

FRANCIS & ASSOCIATES

711 South A Street

Oxnard, CA 93030

 /s/ Amber M. Jose 

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