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Nature of Suit Code: 791
Nature of Suit: Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA)
Cause of Action: 29:1001 E.R.I.S.A.: Employee Retirement

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Stipulation Requesting Further Extension of Time to File Responsive Pleadings and Joint Case Management Statement, 

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LAWRENCE BREWSTER, Acting Regional Solicitor 

DANIEL J. CHASEK, Acting Counsel for ERISA 

California State Bar Number 186968 

JAN M. COPLICK, Senior Trial Attorney 

California State Bar Number 124053 

E-mail: sol-sf@dol.gov 

United States Department of Labor 

Office of the Solicitor 

71 Stevenson Street, Suite 1110 

San Francisco, California 94105 

Telephone: (415) 975-4498 

Facsimile: (415) 975-4495 

Attorneys for Elaine L. Chao, Secretary 

United States Department of Labor, Plaintiff 

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE 

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 

ELAINE L. CHAO, Secretary of the United 

States Department of Labor, 

 Plaintiff, 

 vs. 

GKO & ASSOCIATES, INC., a California 

corporation; GKO Consulting Engineers, Inc. a

California corporation; JAMES WINZLER, an 

individual; GREGG OKAMITSU, an 

individual; YAN KAM-WING, an individual; 

and GKO & ASSOCIATES 401(k) SAVINGS 

AND PROFIT SHARING PLAN, an 

employee pension benefit plan, 

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Case No.: Docket No.C-05-02202 JSW 

STIPULATION REQUESTING 

COURT TO FURTHER EXTEND TIME FOR 

FILING OF DEFENDANT OKAMITSU 

AND YAN’S RESPONSIVE PLEADINGS, 

PARTIES’ INITIAL DISCLOSURES, RULE 

26(f) JOINT REPORT, AND TO POSTPONE 

DATE FOR CASE MANAGEMENT 

CONFERENCE TO PERMIT PARTIES TO 

CONTINUE SETTLEMENT 

NEGOTIATIONS and 

PROPOSED ORDER

Pursuant to Rules 7-1.a.5, 7-12 and 16-1 of the Local Rules of Court, it is HEREBY 

STIPULATED between Plaintiff Elaine L. Chao, Secretary of Labor, United States Department 

of Labor (“Secretary”) and Defendants GREGG OKAMITSU (“Okamitsu”) and YAN KAMWING (“Yan”), collectively the “Parties”, as follows:

1. The Secretary and Defendants Okamitsu and Yan have continued to engage in 

productive settlement discussions. However, the accounting of the GKO & 

ASSOCIATES 401(k) SAVINGS AND PROFIT SHARING PLAN (the “Plan”) has been 

so long neglected and is in such disarray that further meaningful settlement discussions 

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with these two defendants cannot proceed further without the appointment of an 

Independent Fiduciary to the Plan to administer and update the Plan accounts. 

2. The appointment of such an Independent Fiduciary is one of the key remedies 

sought by the Secretary in her pending Application for Default Judgment Against Certain 

Defendants1 filed herein on December 29, 2006 and set for hearing on February 10, 2006. 

3. The parties hereto therefore seek to continue the applicable litigation deadlines 

until after the Plan accounts have been updated by an Independent Fiduciary following 

his or her appointment by the Court, so that settlement discussions can thereafter be 

resolved.

2. In order to effect this result, the Parties hereby file this Stipulation requesting a 

further extension of the applicable deadlines set by the Court in its Order of September 

20, 2005, for filing conference statements, completing initial disclosures and Rule 26(f) 

reports, and holding the case management conference. Any such extensions and 

continuances granted by the Court were and will be applicable only to the specific Parties 

entering into this Stipulation.

3. The Secretary and Defendants Okamitsu and Yan stipulate to a further extension 

to March 15, 2006 of the due date for the said Defendants’ responsive pleadings, which 

are currently due to be filed on January 15, 2006; 

4. The Parties hereby stipulate to a continuance of the date for the Case Management 

Conference from Friday, January 27, 2006 to sixty (60) days following the entry of the 

Court’s order on the Secretary’s pending Application for Default Judgment Against 

Certain Defendants. 

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 Uniformity of liability between these two groups of defendants is not logically required by the facts and theories 

of the case, as reflected in the differing nature of the allegations against the two groups `set forth in the Secretary’s 

Complaint. A later decision in favor of the nondefaulting Defendants, who are the parties to this Stipulation, would 

not be inconsistent with a previous determination of liability of the defaulting Defendants. (Shanghai Automation 

Instrument Co. v. Kuei, 194 F.Supp.2d 995 (N.D. Cal 2001.) 

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5. The Parties hereby stipulate that the dates for their conference and initial 

disclosures under Rule 26(f) and their filing deadlines for the joint Case Management 

Statement be extended accordingly. 

6. Defendants GKO & ASSOCIATES, INC., GKO CONSULTING ENGINEERS, 

INC., JAMES WINZLER, and GKO & ASSOCIATES 401(k) SAVINGS AND PROFIT 

SHARING PLAN, none of whom are parties to this Stipulation, are currently the subjects 

of the aforementioned Secretary’s Application for Default Judgment Against Certain 

Defendants. The said defaulting Defendants have previously had their Defaults entered 

against them by the Clerk of the Court. 

FOR DEFENDANTS 

GREGG OKAMITSU and

YAN KAM-WING: 

Dated: January ____, 2006 ___________________________________ 

DOUGLAS MURKEN, Counsel for defendants 

GREGG OKAMITSU and YAN KAM-WING 

FOR PLAINTIFF:

Dated: January ___, 2006 /s/ Coplick.Jan (original Signature retained by 

Counsel)

 JAN M. COPLICK, Counsel for plaintiff ELAINE 

L. CHAO, Secretary of Labor, U.S. Department of 

Labor

Responsive pleadings by defendants GREGG OKAMITSU and YAN KAM-WING must 

be filed within sixty (60) days following the entry of the Court’s Order or ruling on Plaintiff’s 

Application for Default Judgment by the Court Against Certain Defendants, filed by Plaintiff on 

December 29, 2006. The other deadlines shall follow accordingly. 

PURSUANT TO STIPULATION, IT IS SO ORDERED 

Dated: ______________, 200__ 

 ________________________________________ 

HONORABLE JEFFREY S. WHITE 

UNITED STATES DISTRICT JUDGE 

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