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Parties Involved:
Darlene Coddington
Cross Defendant
Great American Insurance Company
Plaintiff
Marlene McDevitt
Cross Claimant
Robert McDevitt
Cross Claimant
Randy Morisoli
Cross Defendant
Roadway Electrical Works, Inc
Defendant
Roadway Engineering Works, Inc.
Defendant

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TEMPORARY RESTRAINING ORDER

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

SACRAMENTO DIVISION 

GREAT AMERICAN INSURANCE 

COMPANY, an Ohio corporation,

Plaintiff,

v.

ROADWAY ENGINEERING WORKS, 

INC., a California corporation, individually 

and doing business as ROADWAY 

ELECTRICAL WORKS, INC.; 

DARLENE CODDINGTON, an individual;

RANDY MORISOLI, an individual;

MARLENE MCDEVITT, an individual;

and ROBERT MCDEVITT, an individual,

Defendants.

CASE NO.: 1:16-CV-00070-WBS-SKO

TEMPORARY RESTRAINING 

ORDER

BEFORE THE HONORABLE 

SENIOR JUDGE WILLIAM R. SHUBB

Hearing on Motion for Preliminary 

Injunction: March 7, 2016

Courtroom: 5

Time: 1:30 pm

After reviewing plaintiff Great American Insurance Company’s ex parte 

application for a Temporary Restraining Order and considering the declarations and 

points and authorities in support thereof and arguments at the hearing, the court finds that 

immediate and irreparable injury, loss, or damage will result to plaintiff before 

defendants may be heard in opposition. The court therefore makes the following findings 

and orders pursuant to Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 65(b).

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For purposes of this Order, the term “Collateral” means the inventory, 

equipment, accounts, chattel paper, instruments, letter of credit rights, letters of credit, 

documents, deposit accounts, investment property, money, other rights to payment and 

performance of general intangibles, and all products and proceeds thereof. The term 

“Collateral Records” means all records and data relating to any of the Collateral, whether 

in the form of a writing, photograph, microfilm, microfiche, or electronic media, together 

with all of Roadway Engineering Works, Inc.’s (“Roadway”) right, title, and interest in 

and to all computer software required to utilize, create, maintain, and process any such 

records or data on electronic media owned and operated by Roadway. 

The court finds that the following facts give rise to irreparable injury in the 

absence of the issuance of this Order. Plaintiff has been granted authority to examine and 

copy the books, records, and accounts of defendants and each of them under the Tenth 

Paragraph of the Agreement of Indemnity each of them signed to plaintiff. Despite 

demands for access and defendants’ contractual obligation to provide plaintiff with such 

access to the Collateral Records, such access has not been granted and plaintiff has 

learned that Roadway has ceased doing business. As long as plaintiff is refused access to 

the Collateral Records and there is a risk that the Collateral Records are not being 

preserved, plaintiff lacks the ability to mitigate its losses on the bonds issued for 

Roadway as principal because its analysis of claims is being limited to the information 

provided by claimants on the bonds. The court therefore finds there is a danger that 

immediate and irreparable injury or loss or damage to the Collateral Records will result if 

defendants, and each of them, are not immediately enjoined from, among other things, 

hiding, concealing, transferring, disposing of, or destroying the Collateral Records. 

IT IS HEREBY ORDERED that defendants Roadway Engineering Works, 

Inc., individually and doing business as Roadway Electrical Works, Inc.; Darlene 

Coddington, an individual; Randy Morisoli, an individual; Marlene McDevitt, an 

individual; and Robert McDevitt, an individual (collectively “defendants”), and each of 

them, and their agents, servants, directors, officers, affiliates, employees, attorneys, 

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representatives, and all other persons and entities who are successors in interest to or who 

are acting in concert or participating with them, or any of them, are hereby restrained and 

enjoined from engaging in or performing, directly or indirectly, any of the following acts:

a. expending, disbursing, transferring, assigning, selling, conveying, devising, 

pledging, mortgaging, creating a security interest in, encumbering, concealing or in any 

manner whatsoever disposing of the whole or any part of the Collateral Records;

b. disposing, assigning, secreting or in any other way diverting, using or 

making unavailable to the plaintiff, the Collateral Records, or any of the issues and 

proceeds thereof;

c. doing any act which will, or which will tend to, impair, defect, divert, 

prevent or prejudice the preservation of the Collateral Records, in whatever form the 

interest is held or used as of this date;

d. destroying, concealing, transferring or failing to preserve any document 

which evidences, reflects, or pertains to the Collateral Records or any part thereof;

e. committing or permitting any waste of the Collateral Records, or any part 

thereof; 

f. removing, transferring, or encumbering or otherwise disposing of the 

Collateral Records.

Defendants are hereby notified of the right to apply to the Court for 

modification or dissolution on two (2) days’ notice pursuant to Rule 65(b)(4).

This Temporary Restraining Order is issued on February 16, 2016 at 10:00 

a.m. and, pursuant to Rule 65(b)(2), must expire at 10:00 a.m. on March 1, 2016. 

Pursuant to Rule 65(b)(2), plaintiff may, upon a showing of good cause, move to extend 

the Temporary Restraining Order. 

Pursuant to Rule 65(c), plaintiff is required to post a bond with the court in

the amount of $5,000 upon issuance of this Order. 

Plaintiff’s Motion for Preliminary Injunction shall remain as set for March 7, 

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2016 at 1:30 PM, with the briefing schedule set by the Court as follows: 1) plaintiff’s 

supplemental motion or additional declarations in support of the existing motion shall be 

filed no later than February 18, 2016, and 2) all defendants’ briefs, declarations, 

affidavits, memorandum of points and authorities, or other materials in response to said 

motion shall be filed no later than March 1, 2016. 

IT IS SO ORDERED.

Dated: February 16, 2016

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