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Parties Involved:
City of Livingston
Defendant
Paul Creighton
Defendant
Does 1-30, inclusive
Defendant
Foster Poultry Farms, Inc.
Plaintiff
Richard N. Warne
Defendant

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STIPULATION AND [PROPOSED] ORDER TO CONTINUE PRETRIAL CONFERENCE DATE

DM_US:20941460_1 

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Carmine R. Zarlenga (pro hac vice) 

HOWREY LLP 

1299 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W. 

Washington, DC 20004 

Telephone: (202) 783-0800 

Facsimile: (202) 383-6610 

zarlengac@howrey.com

Joanne Lichtman (SBN 137300) 

HOWREY LLP 

550 South Hope Street, Suite 1100 

Los Angeles, CA 90071 

Telephone: (213) 892-1800 

Facsimile: (213) 892-2300 

lichtmanj@howrey.com

Attorneys for Plaintiff 

FOSTER POULTRY FARMS, INC. 

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 

EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 

FRESNO DIVISION 

FOSTER POULTRY FARMS, INC., a 

California corporation, 

Plaintiff, 

v. 

RICHARD N. WARNE (individually and 

in his professional capacity as City 

Manager of the City of Livingston); 

PAUL CREIGHTON (individually and) 

in his professional capacity as Public 

Works Director of the City of 

Livingston); CITY OF LIVINGSTON; 

and DOES 1-30, inclusive, 

Defendants. 

Case No. 06-CV-00931-OWW-DLB 

STIPULATION AND ORDER TO 

CONTINUE PRETRIAL 

CONFERENCE 

Current Date: January 7, 2008 

Proposed Date: February 12, 2008 

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WHEREAS, on May 24, 2006, Foster Poultry Farms, Inc. (“Foster Farms”) 

filed an action against the City of Livingston (the “City”) in the Superior Court of the 

State of California for the County of Merced (“State Action”), seeking declaratory 

relief in connection with a dispute between the City and Foster Farms regarding 

backflow prevention devices at Foster Farms’ poultry processing facility in 

Livingston, California; 

WHEREAS, on July 19, 2006, Foster Farms filed an action in this Court, which 

it amended on October 16, 2006, against Defendants City of Livingston, Richard N. 

Warne and Paul Creighton (the “Federal Action”); 

WHEREAS, this Court issued a Scheduling Conference Order on December 12, 

2006, and subsequently issued an Amended Scheduling Conference Order on May 25, 

2007, setting the Pretrial Conference in this case for January 7, 2008 and trial for 

February 12, 2008; 

WHEREAS, the Parties have reached a global settlement agreement in this case 

and expect to execute and file the relevant settlement documents in all affected courts, 

including a notice of settlement and notice of dismissal in this case within the next 

several court days; 

WHEREAS. the Parties agree that a continuance of the upcoming Pretrial 

Conference on January 7, 2008 to the date of the trial on February 12, 2008, which is 

the next court appearance set for this case, would be appropriate to allow the Parties to 

execute and file all relevant documents to finalize the settlement agreement; 

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IT IS HEREBY STIPULATED by and between the parties as follows: 

The Pretrial Conference in this action currently set for January 7, 2008 shall be 

continued to February 12, 2008. 

IT IS SO STIPULATED. 

Dated: January 4, 2008 

HOWREY LLP 

By: /s/ Joanne Lichtman 

JOANNE LICHTMAN 

Attorneys for Plaintiff, 

FOSTER POULTRY FARMS, 

INC. 

Dated: January 4, 2008 

THOMAS P. HALLINAN, CITY 

ATTORNEY, CITY OF LIVINGSTON; 

and BURKE, WILLIAMS & SORENSEN 

LLP 

By: /s/ Stephen A. McEwen 

STEPHEN A. MCEWEN 

Attorneys for Defendants 

RICHARD N. WARNE, PAUL 

CREIGHTON, and CITY OF 

LIVINGSTON 

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O R D E R 

Good cause appearing, the above-written Stipulation is hereby ordered: 

The Pretrial Conference in this matter is continued from January 7, 2008 to February 

12, 2008. 

Date: January 4, 2008 /s/ OLIVER W. WANGER 

 Hon. Oliver W. Wanger, District Court Judge 

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