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Nature of Suit Code: 442
Nature of Suit: Civil Rights Employment
Cause of Action: 28:1332 Diversity-Employment Discrimination

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LITTLER MENDELSON

GREGORY S. REDMOND, ESQ. Bar No. 158135

430 Railroad Avenue

Pittsburg, CA 94565

Telephone: 925.427.9023

Facsimile: 925.427.3020

Attorneys for Plaintiff

GRETA ANDERSON

KENNETH R. O'BRIEN, Bar No. 072128

LITTLER MENDELSON

A Professional Corporation

2520 Venture Oaks Way, Suite 390

Sacramento, CA 95833.4227

Telephone: 916.830.7200

Facsimile: 916.561.0828

E-mail: kobrien@littler.com

Attorneys for Defendant

AMERICAN AIRLINES, INC.

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

SAN FRANCISCO DIVISION

GRETA L. ANDERSON,

Plaintiff,

v.

AMERICAN AIRLINES, INC., et al.,

Defendant.

Case No. C 05-04292 SI

[PROPOSED] JOINT STIPULATION TO

AMEND SCHEDULING ORDER

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Suit* 390

916.030.7200

[PROPOSED] JOINT STIPULATION TO AMEND SCHEDULING ORDER

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LITTLER MENDELSON

A PROFESSIONAL CORPORATION

2520 Venluia Oaks Way

Suite 390

Sacramento, CA 95833.4227

916.830.7200

As the Court is aware, the parties have been trying to schedule and conclude the

deposition of Dr. Robert S. Brown, Sr., who practices and resides in Virginia. Dr. Brown has

represented that he works full time during the work week in Ft. Lee, Virginia, treating servicemen

and women in need of psychiatric treatment who are returning from the war in Iraq. He has

represented that his earliest available date for deposition are two Saturdays in late July, but counsel

for both Plaintiff and Defendant are unavailable to depose Dr. Brown on the proposed dates.

Accordingly, counsel for Plaintiff and Defendant have tentatively agreed to depose Dr. Brown on

Saturday, August 11,2007.

Furthermore, it appears that Dr. Brown is continuing to seek an order from the

District Court for the Western District of Virginia limiting or at least delaying turning over many of

the medical tests he administered to Plaintiff as part of his examination of Plaintiff. Dr. Brown has

requested the Virginia court to not order him to release materials unless (1) they are released only

and directly to Plaintiffs psychological experts, (2) unless the legal owners of certain copyrights on

the test materials which Plaintiff was administered expressly authorize the release of such materials,

and (3) restrict the time and place where his records must be released. Dr. Brown's request makes

no allowance for Defendant to obtain his records and restricts Defendant's ability to have consultants

or experts assist Defendant. A true and correct copy of Dr. Brown's attorney's most recent

correspondence to the Virginia court is attached hereto as Exhibit A.

As the Court is aware, Dr. Brown's deposition must precede the depositions of other

witnesses and directly impacts Plaintiffs and Defendant's ability to retain and consult with expert

psychiatric or psychological witnesses and consultants. Furthermore, as the court is aware, the

parties had agreed to conduct a few remaining witness depositions in Texas after completing Dr.

Brown's deposition so that counsel would only be forced to make one additional out of state trip to

complete them. Accordingly, the inability to depose Dr. Brown earlier than August severely impacts

the ability of the parties to comply with the court's existing scheduling order, and each side will be

severely prejudiced unless the current scheduling order is modified to allow the parties to consult

with and retain experts, prepare their reports, prepare for and defend against dispositive motions, and

to prepare for trial. It is clear that the parties have attempted with all due speed to meet the court's

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LITTLER MENDELSON

2520 Ventur e Oaks Hay

Suite 390

Sacttmento, CA 95633.4227

916 830.7200

current scheduling or

deposition subpoena.

Accorc

modify the existing s<

duties and calendar:

1 . Initial (

2. Rebutti

3. Expert

4. Dispos

5. Opposi

6. Reply 1

7. Hearini

possibly as ear

8. Pretrial

set by court (es

9. Pretrial

10. Trial -s

Dated: July 9, 2007

Dated: July 9, 2007

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current scheduling order, but that they are unable to do so due to Dr. Brown's motion to quash his

ipoena.

Accordingly, the parties through their counsel respectfully request that the court

modify the existing scheduling order as follows, or as otherwise may comply with the court's other

aidar:

Initial expert disclosures due August 31;

Rebuttal designation due September 21;

Expert discovery cut off extended to October 31;

Dispositive motion filed by November 30;

Opposition filed by December 14,

Reply filed December 21.

Hearing on dispositive motions to be set by court in view of Holiday schedule--

ly as early as January 4 or January 11

Pretrial filings due 21 days after ruling on dispositive motions heard or otherwise as

court (estimated sometime in February)

Pretrial 7-14 days after pretrial filings (estimate March)

Trial -sometime in April, 2008

Respectfully submitted,

/s/

GREGORY S. REDMOND, ESQ.

Attorneys for Plaintiff

GRETA ANDERSON

/s/

KENNETH R. O'BRIEN

LITTLER MENDELSON

Attorneys for Defendant

AMERICAN AIRLINES, INC.

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[PROPOSED] JOINT STIPULATION TO AMEND SCHEDULING ORDER

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[PROPOSED ORDER]

THE COURT HEREBY ORDERS THE FOLLOWING based on the Joint Stipulation

to Amend Scheduling Order of all parties and good cause being shown therefore:

Initial expert disclosures will be due: 08/31/07

Rebuttal designation will be due: 09/21/07

Expert discovery cut off extended will be due: 10/31/07

Dispositive Motion to be filed by: 11/30/07

Opposition to Dispositive Motion to be filed by: 12/14/07

Reply to Opposition to be filed by: 12/21/07

Hearing on Dispositive Motions to be heard on:

Pretrial filings to be heard on:

Pretrial hearing to be held on:

Trial to be set on:

Dated:

JUDGE SUSAN ILLSTON

LITTLER MENDELSON

A PROFESSIONAL COMPOHATIOI

2520 Venture Oikt Way

Suil« 390

Sacramtflto, CA 95833.4227

916.630.7200

FIRMWIDE:82729550.1009001.1300 3.

[PROPOSED] JOINT STIPULATION TO AMEND SCHEDULING ORDER

(No. C 05-04292 SI)

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1/4/08 2/5/08 due 2/19/08 3/3/08

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EXHIBIT "A"

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Kerri Borchardt Taylor

Attorney at Law

PLLC

434.817.2187 Direct

434.817.2180 Office

434.817.2199 Fax

1020 Ednam Center

Suite 200

Charlottesville, VA 22903

ktaylor@goodmanallen.com

July 2, 2007

VIA FACSIMILE

The Honorable B; Waugh Crigler

U.S.-District Court - Western District of Virginia

255 West Main Street, Room 304

Charlottesville, VA 22902

RE: Greta L Anderson v. American Airlines, Inc.

Case No. 3:07MC00008

Dear Judge Crigler:

Upon receiving a copy of my July 29, 2007, correspondence, Dr. Brown contacted

me and asked that I communicate some additional information to the Court for its

consideration in this matter.

Dr. Brown informed me over the weekend that he administered 9 separate

psychological tests to Ms. Anderson - 7 of the 9 tests are copyrighted and will require

written consent before being copied and released. To date Dr. Brown has only been

successful in obtaining written consent from Psychological Assessment Specialists (the

consent attached to my letter of July 29th). He has had no response to the consent

requests he submitted to the publishers of the 6 other copyrighted tests he

administered to Ms. Anderson and has concerns about releasing the test data for those

tests without having the proper consent.

In addition to copyright compliance Dr. Brown is adamant that he is willing only

to comply with the law and release raw data to a qualified psychologist. He is

requesting that the Virginia Psychological Association Committee on Ethics provide him

with a statement in support of this position.

Finally, we would request guidance from the Court with respect to the actual

document production. Specifically, Plaintiff's original subpoena requested that Dr.

Brown's records be made available for review at Dr. Brown's office the day before his

deposition was to be taken; however, Mr. Redmond recently requested that we forward

responsive documents to him in California. Not only would Dr. Brown like to have all of

the necessary consents in place before releasing the documents, but he would also like

to know how, when and where the documents are to be produced.

CHARLOTTESVILLE | RICHMOND | NORFOLK

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The Honorable B. Waugn Crigler

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June 29, 2007

If you have any questions please do not hesitate to call.

With best wishes, I am

jinoetely,

Kerri Borchardt Taylor

KBT:cjr

cc: Gregory S. Redmond, Esquire

Kenneth R. O'Brien, Esquire

Dr. Robert S. Brown

Ms. Joyce Herrington (PRMS File #: 005-06-0303-48E)

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