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Nature of Suit Code: 791
Nature of Suit: Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA)
Cause of Action: 29:185 Employee Pension Plan

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James P. Watson, Esq. (SBN 046127) 

Bruce K. Leigh, Esq. (SBN 129753) 

Anne Bevington, Esq. (SBN 111320) 

STANTON, KAY & WATSON, LLP 

101 New Montgomery Street, Fifth Floor 

San Francisco, CA 94105-3612 

Telephone: 415-512-3501 

Facsimile: 415-512-3515 

E-Mail: brucel@skwsf.com 

Attorneys for Plaintiffs 

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 

BOARDS OF TRUSTEES FOR THE 

OPERATING ENGINEERS HEALTH AND 

WELFARE TRUST FUND, PENSION TRUST 

FUND FOR OPERATING ENGINEERS, 

PENSIONED OPERATING ENGINEERS 

HEALTH AND WELFARE FUND, OPERATING 

ENGINEERS VACATION AND HOLIDAY 

TRUST FUND, NORTHERN CALIFORNIA 

PREAPPRENTICE, APPRENTICE AND 

JOURNEYMAN AFFIRMATIVE ACTION 

TRAINING FUND, OPERATING ENGINEERS 

CONTRACT ADMINISTRATION FUND FOR 

NORTHERN CALIFORNIA, OPERATING 

ENGINEERS INDUSTRY STABILIZATION 

TRUST FUND AND OPERATING ENGINEERS 

MARKET PRESERVATION TRUST FUND, 

 Plaintiffs, 

 v. 

MORA CONSTRUCTION INC., 

a California corporation; and 

MARK C. MORA, an individual, 

 Defendants. 

Case No. 3:06cv3641 WHA 

PLAINTIFFS’ MOTION FOR 

CONTINUANCE OF CASE 

MANAGEMENT ORDER, 

DECLARATION IN SUPPORT 

THEREOF, AND PROPOSED 

AMENDED CASE MANAGEMENT 

ORDER 

DATE: None Set 

TIME: None Set 

CRTRM: 9, 19th Floor 

JUDGE: The Honorable 

 William H. Alsup

Plaintiffs in the above-titled action in default, seeking an order compelling an audit of 

defendant, request the court to continue the deadline for submission of a motion for default 

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judgment, set at the September 14, 2006, case management conference in this case, from October 

5, 2006, to December 7, 2006, due to a material change in the circumstances of the action. 

Plaintiffs submit the following declaration in support of their request and proposed amended case 

management order. 

 

DATED: September 19, 2006 STANTON, KAY & WATSON, LLP 

 By: /s/ Bruce K. Leigh __________________________ 

 Bruce K. Leigh 

 Attorneys For Plaintiffs 

DECLARATION OF BRUCE K. LEIGH

I, BRUCE K. LEIGH, declare as follows: 

1. I am an attorney at law licensed to practice before all courts of the State of 

California and a member of the bar of this court. 

2. I am one of the attorneys for the plaintiffs in this action, and I make this declaration 

in support of the plaintiffs’ Motion for Default Judgment. 

3. I have personal knowledge of the following facts and, if called upon to testify, am 

competent to do so. 

4. In this action seeking to compel an audit of defendants and to collect unpaid 

employer contributions owed to the plaintiffs’ trust funds, the default of defendants has already 

been entered. 

5. At the case management conference of September 14, the court set a deadline of 

October 5, 2006, for plaintiffs to file a motion for default judgment. 

6. I have just learned from both plaintiffs and defendants that they have agreed to 

have an audit of defendants’ business records on October 5, 2006, for the purpose of determining 

whether defendants are owing any unpaid employer contributions. 

7. Since the first objective of this lawsuit, to obtain an audit of defendants’ business 

records, will be attained by this agreed audit, and the amount of any subsequent claim for unpaid 

contributions will depend on the outcome of this audit, plaintiffs request that the deadline for filing 

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a motion for default judgment be continued to December 7, 2006. This should allow the parties to 

finish the audit, review the results, and possibly reach a settlement of the entire action. 

8. If the audit finds no contributions owing, the action may be dismissed. If 

substantial contributions are found owing, it may be necessary to file and serve an amended 

complaint. 

9. A continuation of the deadline for filing of such further pleading would save 

litigation costs for the parties and conserve judicial resources. It should also facilitate friendly 

relations between the plaintiff trust funds and defendant. 

I declare under penalty of perjury of the laws of the State of California that the foregoing is 

true and correct and that this declaration was executed on September 19, 2006, at San Francisco, 

California. 

 By: /s/ Bruce K. Leigh __________________________ 

 Bruce K. Leigh 

 Attorneys For Plaintiffs 

PROPOSED AMENDED CASE MANAGEMENT ORDER 

Having considered plaintiffs’ case management statement filed herein on August 31, 2006, 

and plaintiffs’ motion and declaration for amendment of the case management order of September 

14, 2006, the Court takes notice that plaintiffs and defendants have agreed to hold an audit of 

defendants’ business records on October 5, 2006. Accordingly, the Court orders that Plaintiffs 

shall file their motion for default judgment, voluntary dismissal, or amended complaint herein no 

later than December 7, 2006. 

DATED: _________________ , 2006 ___________________________________ 

 THE HONORABLE WILLIAM H. ALSUP 

 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 

 

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November 2, 2006. September 20

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NITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

IT IS SO ORDERED

Judge William Alsup

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PROOF OF SERVICE

CASE NAME: Board of Trustees for Operating Engineers Health and Welfare Trust Fund 

 v. Mora Construction Inc. 

 CASE NUMBER: United States District Court, Northern District of California 

 Case No. 3:06cv3641 (WHA) 

 I, Peggy Sanchez, declare as follows: 

I am a citizen of the United States of America; I am a resident of, or employed in, the City 

and County of San Francisco, California; I am over the age of eighteen years and not a party to 

the within cause; my business address is 101 New Montgomery Street, Fifth Floor, San 

Francisco, California 94105. 

 On the date below, I served the following document described as 

1) PLAINTIFFS’ MOTION FOR CONTINUANCE OF 

CASE MANAGEMENT ORDER, DECLARATION 

IN SUPPORT THEREOF, AND PROPOSED 

AMENDED CASE MANAGEMENT ORDER 

on the parties involved addressed as follows: 

Mora Construction, Inc. 

26738 Dutcher Creek Road 

Cloverdale, California 95425 

Mark C. Mora 

1350 Bennet Valley Road 

Santa Rosa, California 95402 

BY MAIL with postage thereon fully prepaid in the designated area for outgoing mail. I am 

readily familiar with STANTON, KAY & WATSON LLP's practice of collection and processing 

correspondence whereby mail is sealed, given the appropriate postage and placed in a designated 

mail collection area. Each day's mail is collected and deposited with the United States Postal 

Service after the close of each day's business. I am aware that on motion of the party served, 

service is presumed invalid if postal cancellation date or postage meter date is more than one day 

after the date of deposit for mailing in affidavit. 

 I declare under penalty of perjury under the laws of the State of California that the 

foregoing is true and correct, and that this declaration was executed on September 19, 2006, at 

San Francisco, California. 

 

 /s/ Peggy Sanchez _______________________________ 

 Peggy Sanchez 

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