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Parties Involved:
American Surety Company, Inc.
Defendant
Gonzales & Gonzales Bonds and Insurance Agency, Inc.
Defendant
United States of America
Plaintiff

Document Text:

STIPULATION TO POSTPONE CASE MANAGEMENT STATEMENT AND 

CASE MANAGEMENT CONFERENCE 

CASE NO. C 10-100182 MHP & 10-02417 MHP 

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Gary A. Nye, Esq. (Cal. Bar No. 126104) 

David R. Ginsburg, Esq. (Cal. Bar No. 210900) 

ROXBOROUGH, POMERANCE, NYE & ADREANI, LLP 

5820 Canoga Avenue, Suite 250 

Woodland Hills, California 91367 

Telephone: (818) 992-9999 

Facsimile: (818) 992-9991 

Email: gan@rpnalaw.com, drg@rpnalaw.com 

Attorneys for Defendants 

GONZALES & GONZALES BONDS AND 

INSURANCE AGENCY, INC. and 

AMERICAN SURETY COMPANY, INC. 

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA - SAN FRANCISCO DIVISION 

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, 

 Plaintiff, 

vs. 

GONZALES & GONZALES BONDS AND 

INSURANCE AGENCY, INC. and 

AMERICAN SURETY COMPANY, INC., 

 Defendants. 

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Case No. C 10-00182 MHP 

 C 10-02417 MHP 

STIPULATION TO POSTPONE CASE 

MANAGEMENT STATEMENT AND 

CASE MANAGEMENT CONFERENCE 

 

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STIPULATION TO POSTPONE CASE MANAGEMENT STATEMENT AND 

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STIPULATION TO POSTPONE CASE MANAGEMENT STATEMENT AND 

CASE MANAGEMENT CONFERENCE

Pursuant to Civil L.R. 6-2 and 7-12, the parties, through their respective counsel, stipulate 

and agree as follows: 

Currently pending before this Court are the following matters: 

1. United States of America v. Gonzales & Gonzales Bonds and Insurance Agency, 

Inc., et al., Case No. C 09-04029 MHP, filed on August 28, 2009; 

2. United States of America v. Gonzales & Gonzales Bonds and Insurance Agency, 

Inc., et al., Case No. C 10-00182 MHP, filed on August 27, 2009 in Tennessee, transferred to the 

Northern District of California on January 11, 2010, ordered related to Case No. C 09-04029 

MHP on April 8, 2010, and reassigned to this Court on that same date; 

3. United States of America v. Gonzales & Gonzales Bonds and Insurance Agency, 

Inc., et al., Case No. C 10-02417 MHP, filed on August 28, 2009 in Indiana, transferred to the 

Northern District of California on May 27, 2010, ordered related to Case No. C 09-04029 MHP 

on June 21, 2010, and reassigned to this Court on that same date. 

The parties previously filed a Joint Case Management Statement in Case No. C 09-04029 

MHP, and the Court conducted a case management conference on January 11, 2010. 

When Case No. C 10-00182 MHP was reassigned to this Court in April 2010, the Court’s 

Deputy Clerk set a case management conference. The parties filed a stipulation requesting a 

suspension of the case management conference and filing of a case management statement. The 

Court subsequently issued an order granting the request. See Case No. C 10-00182 MHP, dkt. 

#34. 

On July 1, 2010, the Court’s Deputy Clerk set a case management conference in Case No. 

C 10-02417 MHP for July 19, 2010, at 4:00 p.m., with a joint case management statement due 

one week prior to the conference. See 3:10-cv-02417-MHP, dkt. #34. 

On July 1, 2010, the Court’s Deputy Clerk also set a case management conference in 

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STIPULATION TO POSTPONE CASE MANAGEMENT STATEMENT AND 

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Case No. C 10-00182 MHP for July 19, 2010, at 4:00 p.m., with a joint case management 

statement due one week prior to the conference. See 3:10-cv-00182-MHP, dkt. #39. 

At this time, drafting joint case management statements and participating in case 

management conferences in related cases C 10-00182 MHP and C 10-02417 MHP would be an 

inefficient use of the Court’s and the parties’ time and resources for the following reasons: 

1. Currently pending before this Court in Case No. C 09-04029 MHP is (1) 

G&G/ASC’s Motion for a Judicial Determination Regarding the Nature of the Claims at Issue, the 

Appropriate Standard of Review, and the Scope of Allowable Discovery, and (2) the United 

States’ Motion to Dismiss G&G/ASC’s Counterclaim (“Pending Motions in 09-04029”). The 

hearing took place on April 12, 2010. The parties filed supplemental briefing and the matter was 

taken under submission. 

2. Gonzales & Gonzales Bonds and Insurance Agency, Inc. and American Surety 

Company, Inc. (“G&G/ASC”) filed its answers in Case No. C 09-04029 MHP and Case No. C 

10-00182, but has not yet filed its answer in C 10-02417 MHP. G&G/ASC expects to do so on or 

before July 16, 2010. 

3. The parties are in discussion regarding a possible consolidation of all three cases. 

There have been no prior modifications regarding the case management conference orders. 

The requested modifications would have no effect on the schedule for the cases. 

Therefore, the parties stipulate that subject to this Court’s approval of the stipulation, that 

the case management conferences scheduled for July 19, 2010, and the filing of case management 

statements (3:10-cv-02417-MHP, dkt. #34 and 3:10-cv-00182-MHP, dkt. #39) be suspended until 

after the Court’s ruling on the Pending Motions in 09-04029 and such time as deemed proper by 

the Court based on the facts set forth above. 

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IT IS SO STIPULATED. 

Dated: July 8, 2010 

TONY WEST 

Assistant Attorney General 

JOSEPH P. RUSSONIELLO 

United States Attorney 

/s/ E. Kathleen Shahan__________

J. CHRISTOPHER KOHN 

RUTH A. HARVEY 

E. KATHLEEN SHAHAN 

(D.C. Bar No.267872) 

JOHN SIEMIETKOWSKI 

(PA Bar. No. 50346) 

FRANCES M. MCLAUGHLIN 

(FL Bar No. 0256640) 

Attorneys, Civil Division 

U.S. Department of Justice 

Commercial Litigation Branch 

P.O. Box 875 

Ben Franklin Station 

Washington, DC 20044-0875 

Tel: (202) 307-0249 

Fax: (202) 307-0494 

Attorneys for the United States of 

America 

ROXBOROUGH, POMERANCE, NYE & ADREANI, LLP

/s/ David R. Ginsburg__________

GARY A. NYE 

DAVID R. GINSBURG 

Attorneys for Defendants GONZALES & 

GONZALES BONDS AND INSURANCE 

AGENCY, INC. and AMERICAN SURETY 

COMPANY, INC. 

U

NITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

IT IS SO ORDERED

Judge Marilyn H. Patel

07/09/10

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