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Nature of Suit Code: 890
Nature of Suit: Other Statutory Actions
Cause of Action: 25:640 Indian Tribal Rights

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Stip. and Proposed Order to Extend Deadline To File 

Oppositions to Cross- Mots. for Summary Jdgt. (1:20-cv-01539-AWI-SKO)

ROB BONTA

ATTORNEY GENERAL OF CALIFORNIA

SARA J. DRAKE

Senior Assistant Attorney General

WILLIAM P. TORNGREN

Supervising Deputy Attorney General

COLIN WOOD, State Bar No. 267539

TIMOTHY M. MUSCAT, State Bar No. 148944

Deputy Attorneys General

1300 I Street, Suite 125

P.O. Box 944255

Sacramento, CA 94244-2550

Telephone: (916) 210-7779

Fax: (916) 323-2319

E-mail: Timothy.Muscat@doj.ca.gov

Attorneys for Defendants

IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

BEAR RIVER BAND OF ROHNERVILLE 

RANCHERIA, a federally recognized 

Indian Tribe,

Plaintiff,

v.

STATE OF CALIFORNIA, and GAVIN 

NEWSOM IN HIS OFFICIAL CAPACITY 

AS GOVERNOR OF CALIFORNIA,

Defendants.

Case No. 1:20-cv-01539-AWI-SKO

STIPULATION AND ORDER TO 

EXTEND TIME FOR FILING 

OPPOSITIONS TO CROSS-MOTIONS 

FOR SUMMARY JUDGMENT

Action Filed: August 15, 2020

Pursuant to the United States District Court, Eastern District of California Local Rules, 

Rule 143, George Forman, attorney for plaintiff Bear River Band of Rohnerville Rancheria, a 

federally recognized Indian Tribe (Bear River or Tribe), on the one hand, and Timothy M. 

Muscat, Deputy Attorney General, attorney for defendant Gavin Newsom, in his official capacity 

as Governor of the State of California, and defendant State of California (collectively, State 

Defendants), on the other hand, stipulate as follows:

Whereas, the counsel for the Tribe and State Defendants (collectively, the Parties) filed 

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cross-motions for summary judgment (Cross-Motions); and

Whereas, counsel for the Parties have worked diligently on their respective briefs in 

opposition to the Cross-Motions that currently are due on June 23, 2021, but with the general 

press of business and counsel for the Tribe having encountered unanticipated delays in obtaining 

executed declarations to be lodged in connection with the Tribe’s opposition brief, the parties do 

not anticipate being able to meet the Court’s deadline to file opposition briefs by June 23, 2021, 

IT IS HEREBY STIPULATED and respectfully requested by the Parties that the Court 

amend the current Scheduling Order so as to provide that the Parties’ briefs in opposition to the 

respective Cross-motions be filed by July 2, 2021, any reply briefs be filed by July 22, 2021, and 

the hearing on the motions be continued until August 9, 2021.

Dated: June 22, 2021 Respectfully submitted,

By: /s/ George Forman 

GEORGE FORMAN

FORMAN & ASSOCIATES

Attorneys for Plaintiff

Dated: June 22, 2021 ROB BONTA

Attorney General of California

SARA J. DRAKE

Senior Assistant Attorney General

WILLIAM P. TORNGREN

Supervising Deputy Attorney General

COLIN WOOD

Deputy Attorney General

By: /s/ Timothy Muscat ____ __

TIMOTHY M. MUSCAT

Attorneys for Defendants

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PURSUANT TO THE ABOVE STIPULATION, IT IS SO ORDERED.

IT IS SO ORDERED.

Dated: June 23, 2021 

 SENIOR DISTRICT JUDGE

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