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Nature of Suit Code: 190
Nature of Suit: Other Contract Actions
Cause of Action: 28:1332 Diversity-Other Contract

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Stipulated Motion to Change Trial Date - No. C13-1759 SI 1

Charles M. Kagay, SBN 73377

SPIEGEL LIAO & KAGAY, P.C.

388 Market Street, Suite 900

San Francisco, CA 94111

Telephone: 415-956-5959

Facsimile: 415-362-1431

cmk@slksf.com

Attorney for Defendants Seawind Group 

Holdings Pty Ltd.; Richard Geoffrey Ward; 

Corsair Marine Sales Pte Ltd.; Corsair 

Marine International Pte Ltd.; Corsair 

Marine International Co., Ltd.

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

WAYNE GOLDMAN, et al.

v.

SEAWIND GROUP HOLDINGS PTY LTD,

et al

CASE NO. C13-1759 SI

Stipulated Administrative

Motion to Change Trial Date

For the reasons stated below, all parties request that the presently-scheduled trial date 

of May 18, 2015 be changed to Monday, July 13, 2015. In the event that date is not 

convenient for the Court, the parties would ask that the Court conduct a telephonic 

conference to set a date available for the Court, the parties, and counsel.

In the above-captioned case, the Court granted summary judgment in defendants’ 

favor on February 2, 2015, and solicited the parties’ view on whether the then-scheduled trial 

should proceed as scheduled. In letters to the Court, the parties requested that trial be 

continued to allow them to attempt to settle before additional resources are expended on trial, 

appeal, and possible other proceedings. The Court on February 17, 2015 sua sponte changed 

the trial date as follows:

The parties also request that the Court vacate the March 17, 2015 trial date to 

allow them to pursue settlement, and they state that they have scheduled 

settlement conferences for March 20, 2015 and May 4, 2015 (if necessary). 

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The Court hereby VACATES the March 17, 2015 trial date and reschedules 

the trial to begin on May 18, 2015. The final pretrial conference is scheduled 

for May 12, 2015 at 3:30 p.m.

(Dkt. 110 (emphasis in original).) By order dated May 31, 2015, the Court advanced the 

pretrial conference to May 7.

Parties and counsel participated in a telephonic settlement conference before Judge 

Westmore on March 13, 2015. Despite Judge Westmore’s much appreciated efforts, the case 

did not settle at that time. The parties remain committed to an in-person settlement 

conference on May 4, 2015, for which defendants’ representative Mr. Ward (a resident of 

Australia) will make a special trip to the Bay Area.

The parties are respectfully requesting a change in the trial date at this time because 

the May 18 trial date is not consistent with their efforts to put all available resources into 

settling instead of further litigation. Under the court’s rules for trial preparation, counsel will 

need to meet and confer in April regarding numerous trial preparation matters, and to submit 

exhibits, objections to exhibits, jury instructions, in limine motions, and other trial materials 

no later than April 23. Even if the deadline for submission of such materials were to be 

changed, counsel cannot reasonably postpone trial preparation until after May 4 if they are to 

have a pretrial conference on May 5 and conduct a trial on May 18. However, every dollar 

expended on trial preparation will be a dollar not available to be traded in a settlement.

Counsel for both sides have further reasons for asking that the May 18 trial date be 

changed.

As has been previously mentioned to the Court, Defendants’ counsel is the president 

of a large international lawyers organization, the International Network of Boutique Law 

Firms (www.inblf.com). In that role, he has a long-standing commitment to attend and 

preside over the organization’s annual European Summit in London, which will be 

conducted May 15 to 17. If he is to conduct a trial commencing on May 18, he will be 

unable to attend to his duties at this meeting. He therefore respectfully requests for this 

additional reason that the trial date be changed from May 18. 

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Plaintiffs’ counsel’s a further reason for requesting a change of the May 18 trial date

to July 13: he is a husband and father of two children and has a two week family vacation 

planned beginning June 8, 2015. 

At present, unless Plaintiffs’ recently-filed motion for leave to file a motion for 

reconsideration is granted, as well as the subsequent motion for reconsideration, the trial of 

this matter would be limited to factual findings related to the damages Defendants allegedly 

suffered as a result of Plaintiff’s alleged breach of the August 21, 2012 Settlement 

Agreement. Counsel for Plaintiffs believe the damages issue can be substantially narrowed 

by and through motions in limine. Even if reconsideration is not granted, given that the trial 

will be over only one counterclaim, and that liability under this cause of action was 

determined by the summary judgment motion so that only damages remain to be tried, 

counsel for Defendants believe that the trial will not be lengthy. Plaintiffs’ counsel 

disagrees, and believes that, given the sprawling nature of Defendants’ damages allegations, 

significant impeachment evidence and witnesses would need to be called to rebut 

Defendants’ evidence. It is hoped that, if the case does not settle on May 4 and the May 18 

trial date is changed, a July 13, 2015 trial date would allow both parties a significant amount 

of time to comply with the Court’s pre-trial rules and streamline the trial.

Dated: April 1, 2015 Respectfully submitted,

/s/ Charles M. Kagay

Charles M. Kagay

Spiegel Liao & Kagay, P.C.

Attorney for Defendants Seawind Group Holdings Pty 

Ltd.; Richard Geoffrey Ward; Corsair Marine Sales Pte 

Ltd.; Corsair Marine International Pte Ltd.; Corsair 

Marine International Co., Ltd.

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/s/Robert C. Matz

Robert C. Matz

Makman & Matz, LLP

Attorney for Plaintiffs Wayne Goldman and Harriett 

Scannon

I attest that concurrence in the filing of this document has been obtained from the other 

signatory.

/s/Charles Kagay 

Charles M. Kagay

(PROPOSED) ORDER

Pursuant to stipulation, and good cause appearing, it is ordered that the presently

scheduled pretrial conference date of May 12, 2015 at 3:30 p.m. and trial date of May 18, 

2015 are vacated. 

The new trial date is Monday, July 13, 2015. 

OR

The Court will conduct a telephonic status conference on ______________, 2015 at 

___________ to set new dates for the pretrial conference and trial.

DATED: ________________________ 

_____________________________________ 

The Honorable Susan Illston

Judge, United States District Court

4/2/15 The new pretrial date is 6/30/15 at 3:30 p.m.

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