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Nature of Suit Code: 893
Nature of Suit: Environmental Matters
Cause of Action: 33:1365 Environmental Matters

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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

CALIFORNIA SPORTFISHING

PROTECTION ALLIANCE, a nonprofit corporation,

Plaintiff,

v.

HANSON PIPE & PRECAST LLC, a 

Texas Limited Liability 

Company,

Defendant.

No. 2:14-cv-02340-GEB-CKD

ORDER RE: SETTLEMENT AND 

DISPOSITION

Plaintiff filed a “Notice of Settlement” on January 9, 

2015, in which it states:

[The parties] have reached settlement of all 

claims in the action and have prepared a 

Settlement Agreement, which has been 

circulated for signatures. The Parties 

anticipate that the Settlement Agreement will 

be fully executed no later than January 30, 

2015. The fully executed Settlement Agreement 

will be subsequently sent to the United 

States Department of Justice and the national 

and Region IX offices of the United States 

Environmental Protection Agency 

(collectively, the “Federal Agencies”) for a 

forty-five (45) day review period consistent 

with 40 C.F.R. §135.5; provided no objection 

by the Federal Agencies, the Parties expect 

to file a stipulated dismissal of Plaintiff’s 

Complaint with prejudice.

PLEASE TAKE FURTHER NOTICE that the Federal 

Agencies’ review period is expected to close 

on or about March 16, 2015; if any of the 

reviewing Federal Agencies object to the 

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proposed agreement, the parties would require 

additional time to meet and confer and 

attempt to resolve the Federal Agencies’ 

concerns. Consequently, the parties submit 

that good cause exists to vacate any and all 

existing deadlines and obligations in this 

case, and to set March 30, 2015, as the 

deadline for the filing of a Stipulation for 

Approval of Settlement Agreement and 

Dismissal of Plaintiffs Claims with Prejudice 

and [Proposed] Order.

(Notice of Settlement, ECF No. 4.)

Therefore, a dispositional document shall be filed no 

later than March 30, 2015. Failure to respond by this deadline 

may be construed as consent to dismissal of this action without 

prejudice, and a dismissal order could be filed. See E.D. Cal. 

R. 160(b) (“A failure to file dispositional papers on the date 

prescribed by the Court may be grounds for sanctions.”).

Further, the Status Conference scheduled for hearing on 

January 26, 2015, is continued to commence at 9:00 a.m. on May 4,

2015, in the event no dispositional document is filed, or if this 

action is not otherwise dismissed.1 A joint status report shall 

be filed fourteen (14) days prior to the status conference.

IT IS SO ORDERED.

Dated: January 13, 2015

 

1 The status conference will remain on calendar, because the mere 

representation that a case has been settled does not justify vacating a 

scheduling proceeding. Cf. Callie v. Near, 829 F.2d 888, 890 (9th Cir. 1987)

(indicating that a representation that claims have been settled does not 

necessarily establish the existence of a binding settlement agreement). 

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