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Nature of Suit Code: 350
Nature of Suit: Motor Vehicle Personal Injury
Cause of Action: 28:1332 Diversity-Wrongful Death

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Order Granting Defendants Dan and Leann Steffanic’s Motion for Summary Judgment 

GAVAN R. MUNTER, ESQ. (SBN 134924) 

TIZA SERRANO THOMPSON & ASSOCIATES 

Employees of the Corporate Law Department 

State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Company

2710 South Gateway Oaks Dr., Suite 210 

Sacramento, CA 95833 

Telephone: (916) 561-2780 

Facsimile: (916) 561-2787 

Email: gavan.munter.unnb@statefarm.com 

Attorneys for Defendants 

Dan Steffanic and Leann Steffanic 

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 

EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 

JASON STARR, INDIVIDUALLY AND 

AS GUARDIAN AD LITEM FOR E.S., 

A MINOR CHILD, 

 Plaintiffs, 

v. 

JEFFREY M. GREENWOOD AND 

LESLIE K. GREENWOOD, 

INDIVIDUALLY AND AS HUSBAND AND 

WIFE AND DOING BUSINESS AS 

SIERRA VALLEY BARNS & GAZEBOS, 

DAN STEFFANIC AND LEANN 

STEFFANIC, INDIVIDUALLY AND AS 

HUSBAND AND WIFE, DOES 1 

THROUGH 13, AND DOES 16 

THROUGH 20, 

 Defendants. 

CASE NO. 2:13-CV-01881-JAM-CMK 

ORDER GRANTING DEFENDANTS 

DAN AND LEANN STEFFANIC’S 

MOTION FOR SUMMARY JUDGMENT 

Date: December 17, 2014 

Time: 9:30 a.m. 

Courtroom: 6 

Judge: Hon. John A. Mendez 

Trial Date: April 6, 2015

 The Motion for Summary Judgment of Defendants Dan and Leann Steffanic 

(“Defendants”) came on for hearing on December 17, 2014 at 9:30 a.m. in Department 6 

of the above-entitled Court, Judge John A. Mendez presiding. Bert Guerra, Esq. of Bert 

Guerra & Associates, and Curtis B. Coulter, Esq. of Law Offices of Curtis B. Coulter, 

P.C., appeared on behalf of Plaintiff. Gavan R. Munter, Esq. of Tiza Serrano Thompson 

& Associates appeared on behalf of Defendants DAN and LEANN STEFFANIC. 

Defendants Jeffrey M. Greenwood and Leslie K. Greenwood, pro se, were in attendance 

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Order Granting Defendants Dan and Leann Steffanic’s Motion for Summary Judgment 

in the gallery. 

 The Court, having reviewed and considered all moving papers submitted by 

Defendants Steffanic in support of their Motion for Summary Judgment; all papers 

submitted by plaintiff Jason Starr, individually and as Guardian Ad Litem for E.S., a minor 

child, in opposition to Defendant’s Motion for Summary Judgment and all papers 

submitted by Defendant’s in reply to Plaintiff’s opposition; and having heard the 

arguments of counsel, finds as follows: 

 As to plaintiff’s sole cause of action against Defendant’s for wrongful death, the 

Court analyzed the moving papers submitted by the parties in light of the factors set forth 

in Rowland v. Christian (1968) 69 Cal. 2d 108 and Melton v. Bourstred (2010) 183 Cal. 

App. 4th 521, and finds that Defendants Dan and Leann Steffanic did not owe a legal 

duty to Plaintiff under the circumstances surrounding the subject incident. 

 Accordingly, it is hereby ORDERED that Defendants Dan and Leann Steffanic’s 

Motion for Summary Judgment is GRANTED. 

Dated: January 5, 2015 

 

 /s/ John A. Mendez____________ 

United States District Court Judge

Approved as to form: 

/s/ Bert Guerra, Esq. 

Bert Guerra, Esq. 

/s/ Curtis B. Coulter, Esq. 

Curtis B. Coulter, Esq 

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