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Nature of Suit Code: 550
Nature of Suit: Prisoner - Civil Rights (U.S. defendant)
Cause of Action: 42:1983 Prisoner Civil Rights

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United States District Court

Northern District of California

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

DENNIS LAMAR JAMES,

Plaintiff,

v.

HAYWARD POLICE DEPARTMENT, et 

al.,

Defendants.

Case No. 13-cv-01092-SI 

ORDER APPOINTING COUNSEL AND 

SETTING CASE MANAGEMENT 

CONFERENCE

On August 2, 2016, the court referred this action to the Federal Pro Bono Project to find 

counsel interested in representing plaintiff in this action. A representative from the Federal Pro 

Bono Project has informed the court that attorneys David Fermino and Andrew Muir of the law 

firm of Sideman & Bancroft LLP, located at One Embarcadero Center, 22nd Floor, San Francisco, 

CA 94111, are willing to be appointed to undertake this representation at the request of the Federal 

Pro Bono Project. 

Accordingly, attorneys David Fermino and Andrew Muir of Sideman & Bancroft LLP are 

hereby appointed as counsel for plaintiff for all purposes in this action. Counsel shall be familiar 

with General Order No. 25 and the Federal Pro Bono Project Guidelines posted on the Court's 

website.

All proceedings are stayed until four weeks from the date of this order. 

The court will hold a case management conference at 3:00 p.m. on September 23, 2016. 

The parties shall file a joint case management statement no later than one week before the case 

management conference. The court is particularly interested in setting a discovery schedule and 

trial date, and expects the joint case management statement to (a) identify the specific discovery

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that remains to be done, (b) propose a schedule for the completion of that discovery, and 

(c) propose mutually available trial dates, preferably within the next four to eight months. 

IT IS SO ORDERED.

Dated: August 17, 2016

______________________________________

SUSAN ILLSTON

United States District Judge

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