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Parties Involved:
Coalition for Clean Air, Inc.
Intervenor Defendant
James Goldstene
Defendant
Natural Resources Defense Council
Intervenor Defendant
Pacific Merchant Shipping Association
Plaintiff
South Coast Air Quality Management District
Intervenor Defendant

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JOINT STIPULATION TO STAY DISTRICT COURT ACTION PENDING APPEAL AND TO VACATE DATES 

SET BY SCHEDULING ORDER; [PROPOSED] ORDER THEREON

 

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ATTORNEYS AT LAW

One World Trade Center, Suite 1800

Long Beach, California 90831-1800

(562) 435-2626

Erich P. Wise/State Bar No. 63219 

Nicholas S. Politis/State Bar No. 92978 

Aleksandrs E. Drumalds/State Bar No. 237101 

FLYNN, DELICH & WISE LLP 

One World Trade Center, Suite 1800 

Long Beach, California 90831-1800 

Telephone: (562) 435-2626 

Facsimile: (562) 437-7555 

James B. Nebel/State Bar No. 69626 

Conte C. Cicala/State Bar No. 173554 

FLYNN, DELICH & WISE LLP 

One California Street, Suite 350 

San Francisco, California 

Telephone: (415) 693-5566 

Facsimile: (415) 693-0410 

Attorneys for Plaintiff 

PACIFIC MERCHANT SHIPPING ASSOCIATION, 

a California Mutual Benefit Corporation 

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 

EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA - SACRAMENTO 

PACIFIC MERCHANT SHIPPING 

ASSOCIATION (“PMSA”), a California 

Mutual Benefit Corporation, 

 Plaintiff, 

vs. 

JAMES GOLDSTENE, in his official 

capacity as Executive Officer of the 

California Air Resources Board, 

Defendant, 

NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE 

COUNCIL, INC., COALITION FOR 

CLEAN AIR, INC., and SOUTH COAST 

AIR QUALITY MANAGEMENT 

DISTRICT, 

Defendants-Intervenors. 

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 Case No.: 2:09-CV-01151-MCE-EFB 

 

JOINT STIPULATION TO STAY 

DISTRICT COURT ACTION PENDING 

APPEAL AND TO VACATE DATES SET 

BY SCHEDULING ORDER ; ORDER 

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JOINT STIPULATION TO STAY DISTRICT COURT ACTION PENDING APPEAL AND TO VACATE DATES 

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ATTORNEYS AT LAW

One World Trade Center, Suite 1800

Long Beach, California 90831-1800

(562) 435-2626

TO THE COURT AND ALL RESPECTIVE PARTIES: 

IT IS HEREBY STIPULATED, AGREED AND REQUESTED, by and among Plaintiff 

Pacific Merchant Shipping Association (“PMSA”), Defendant James Goldstene, and DefendantIntervenors Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc., Coalition for Clean Air, Inc., and South Coast 

Air Quality Management District, through their counsel of record, that: 

1. Pursuant to the Court’s authority to control proceedings pending before it as provided by 

Rule 16(b)(4) of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure and 28 U.S.C. §1292(b), the Court enter an order 

staying further proceedings in the district court case pending conclusion of Plaintiff’s interlocutory 

appeal of the Court’s denial of Plaintiff’s Motion for Summary Judgment to the Court of Appeals for 

the Ninth Circuit; and 

2. All dates and deadlines pertaining to discovery, motions, pretrial, and trial of the matter 

as scheduled by the Court’s Pretrial Scheduling Order of August 19, 2009, shall be vacated, subject to 

further Order of the Court. 

This Stipulation and Request for Order Staying Action is not interposed for purposes of 

delay but rather because: 

A. On December 11, 2009, the Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, pursuant to 28 

U.S.C. §1292(b), granted PMSA’s petition for permission to appeal the District Court’s 

Amended Memorandum and Order of August 28, 2009, denying PMSA’s Motion for 

Summary Judgment. [Court of Appeals Docket No. 09-80145.]; 

B. This Court has determined and the appellate court’s grant of the petition for permission 

to appeal reflects its finding that the immediate appeal will likely advance the ultimate 

determination of the litigation; 

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JOINT STIPULATION TO STAY DISTRICT COURT ACTION PENDING APPEAL AND TO VACATE DATES 

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(562) 435-2626

C. The briefing schedule established by the Court of Appeals requires the briefing to be 

concluded no later than May 11, 2010, fourteen days after the last day for service of the 

Appellees’ Briefs; and 

D. The parties agree that the stay requested will allow the parties to focus their efforts and 

resources on the pending appeal, and potentially avoid expensive and time-consuming 

pretrial and trial proceedings in the case, thereby serving the interests of the Court and 

the parties in the efficient and economic resolution of the litigation. 

IT IS SO STIPULATED AND AGREED.

 

 FLYNN, DELICH & WISE, LLP 

Dated: January 7, 2010 /s/ Erich P. Wise 

 Erich P. Wise 

 Nicholas S. Politis 

 Aleksandrs E. Drumalds 

 Attorneys for Plaintiff 

PACIFIC MERCHANT SHIPPING ASSOCIATION, 

a California Mutual Benefit Corporation 

Edmund G. Brown, Jr. Attorney General of the State of 

California 

Dated: January 7, 2010 /s/ Nicholas Stern (as authorized on 1-6-2010) 

 Nicholas Stem 

Deputy Attorneys General 

Attorneys for Defendant 

JAMES GOLDSTENE, in his official capacity as Executive 

Officer of the California Air Resources Board 

NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL, INC. 

Dated: January 7, 2010 /s/ Melissa C. Lin Perrella (as authorized on 1-6-2010) 

 David R. Pettit 

Melissa C. Lin Perrella 

Attorneys for Defendants-Intervenors 

NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL, INC. and 

COALITION FOR CLEAN AIR, INC. 

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JOINT STIPULATION TO STAY DISTRICT COURT ACTION PENDING APPEAL AND TO VACATE DATES 

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ATTORNEYS AT LAW

One World Trade Center, Suite 1800

Long Beach, California 90831-1800

(562) 435-2626

SOUTH COAST AIR QUALITY MANAGEMENT 

DISTRICT 

Dated: January 7, 2010 /s/ Barbara Baird (as authorized on 1-6-2010) 

 Barbara Baird 

Attorneys for Defendant-Intervenor 

SOUTH COAST AIR QUALITY MANAGEMENT 

DISTRICT 

ORDER

Based on the foregoing Stipulation, IT IS HEREBY ORDERED that: 

Pursuant to this Court’s authority to control proceedings pending before it as provided by 

Rule 16(b)(4) of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure and 28 U.S.C. §1292(b), the Court orders that 

proceedings in the district court in this action be stayed in their entirety pending conclusion of 

Plaintiff’s interlocutory appeal to the Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit of this Court’s denial of 

Plaintiff’s Motion for Summary Judgment. 

All dates and deadlines pertaining to discovery, motions, pretrial, and trial of the matter as 

scheduled by the Court’s Pretrial Scheduling Order of August 19, 2009, are vacated, subject to further 

Order of this Court. 

Not later than June 1, 2010 the parties shall file a Joint Status report to provide the District Court 

with the latest information on the case, including any information re the proceedings in the Ninth 

Circuit. 

 IT IS SO ORDERED. 

Dated: January 11, 2010 

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MORRISON C. ENGLAND, JR 

UNITED STATES DISTRICT JUDGE

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