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Nature of Suit Code: 893
Nature of Suit: Environmental Matters
Cause of Action: 28:2201 Constitutionality of State Statute(s)

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FOLGER LEVIN & KAHN LLP

Margaret R. Dollbaum (SB# 093725) 

M. Kay Martin (SB# 154697) 

Embarcadero Center West 

275 Battery Street, 23rd Floor 

San Francisco, CA 94111 

Telephone: (415) 986-2800 

Facsimile: (415) 986-2827 

D. Stephen Schwabauer (SB# 173567) 

City Attorney 

City of Lodi, California 

221 West Pine Street 

Lodi, CA 95240 

Telephone: (209) 333-6701 

Facsimile: (209) 333-6807 

KRONICK, MOSKOVITZ, TIEDEMANN & GIRARD

Daniel J. O’Hanlon (SB# 122380) 

Robert E. Murphy (SB# 040981) 

A Professional Corporation 

400 Capitol Mall, 27th Floor 

Sacramento, CA 95814-4416 

Telephone: (916) 321-4500 

Facsimile: (916) 321-4555 

Attorneys for Plaintiff 

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 

EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 

CITY OF LODI, CALIFORNIA, 

Plaintiff, 

v. 

M&P INVESTMENTS, et al., 

Defendants. 

Case No. CIV-S-00-2441 FCD JFM 

ORDER PURSUANT TO STIPULATION 

TO FURTHER MODIFY DATES 

ESTABLISHED IN THE COURT’S 

FOURTH AMENDED SCHEDULING 

ORDER (NORTHERN, WESTERN & 

SOUTHERN PLUME TRIAL) AND 

TEMPORARILY STAY DISCOVERY 

AND RELATED CROSS-CLAIMS, 

COUNTERCLAIMS, THIRD-PARTY 

CLAIMS AND FOURTH-PARTY CLAIMS. 

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WHEREAS, on January 26, 2005, the Court issued its Fourth Amended Scheduling Order 

for the Northern, Western, & Southern Plume Trial establishing discovery and pre-trial deadlines, 

which was subsequently modified by Order of this Court on August 8, 2006. 

WHEREAS, Plaintiff City of Lodi is currently finalizing settlements with the remaining 

Southern Plume Defendants. 

WHEREAS, certain Northern Plume Defendants (the Gundershaug parties; Lustre-Cal 

Nameplate Corporation; the Ackel parties; Wright Motors; the Ehlers parties; the Weil Motors 

parties; Elizabeth Benson, as Trustee of the Nancy Lee Benson Revocable Living Trust; and Lodi 

Chrome) and the City of Lodi have concluded joint investigation efforts of the Northern Plume 

area. 

WHEREAS, the City of Lodi and Northern Plume Defendants have been engaged in 

ongoing mediations under the auspices of Court-appointed mediator Lester J. Levy of JAMS. As 

a result of these mediations, the City has reached tentative settlements with many of the Northern 

Plume Defendants, and is in the process of finalizing the settlement agreements. With further 

mediations currently scheduled, the City is hopeful that it will soon achieve a global settlement of 

the Northern Plume. 

WHEREAS, the City of Lodi and certain South Central/Western Plume defendants 

(the Newfield parties, the Lewis parties, the Norge parties, the Service Laundry parties, Harman 

Managers Investment Ltd., R. Spiekerman, the Bollinger parties, and the Bader parties) have 

recently completed joint investigation efforts of the South Central/Western Plume area. 

WHEREAS, the City of Lodi intends to initiate settlement negotiations with Defendants in 

the South Central/Western Plume, including formal mediations under the auspices of Courtappointed mediator Lester J. Levy of JAMS, in the next few weeks. 

WHEREAS, to allow for the completion of mediations and finalization of settlement 

agreements with Northern Plume Defendants, to facilitate settlement negotiations with the South 

Central/Western Plume Defendants, and to avoid undue litigation expense by complying with the 

deadlines established in the Court’s Fourth Amended Scheduling Order (Northern, Western & 

Southern Plume Trial), the Parties now seek an order staying discovery through and including 

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March 30, 2007 and, pursuant to Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 16(b), modifying and extending 

the deadlines set forth within the Fourth Amended Scheduling Order, as previously modified, for 

6 months. The Parties propose the schedule be modified as follows: 

 Current Date Proposed Date

Discovery Stay March 30, 2007 

Discovery Completed May 4, 2007 November 9, 2007 

Disclosure of Expert Witnesses March 5, 2007 September 10, 2007 

Expert Discovery Completed April 24, 2007 October 30, 2007 

Final Date to Hear Dispositive Motions July 13, 2007 January 25, 2008 

Last Day to File Motions in Limine August 3, 2007 February 8, 2008 

Oppositions to Motions in Limine Due August 13, 2007 February 25, 2008 

Hearing on Motions in Limine August 24, 2007 March 7, 2008 

at 10:00 a.m. 

Final Pre-trial Conference September 21, 2007 

at 1:30 p.m. 

April 4, 2008 

at 1:30 p.m. 

Trial November 27, 2007 

at 9:00 a.m. 

June 10, 2008 

at 9:00 a.m. 

O R D E R 

Pursuant to the Stipulation above and filed December 13, 2006 with all parties 

concurrence, the court hereby finds good cause and STAYS all discovery through and including

March 30, 2007 and the deadlines established by the Court in the Fourth Amended Scheduling 

Order (Northern, Western & Southern Plume Trial) may be further modified as set forth above. 

DATED: December 14, 2006 

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