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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 ORDER TO EXTEND DISCOVERY COMPLETION DATE

DM_US:20708152_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 

EXTEND DISCOVERY 

COMPLETION DATE 

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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; 

WHEREAS, the Parties previously deferred extensive written discovery 

requests in the Federal Action in anticipation of mediation and the possibility of a 

comprehensive settlement; 

WHEREAS, the Parties have recently completed their written discovery 

requests in the Federal Action and have subsequently noticed numerous depositions of 

witnesses identified in response to such discovery requests; 

WHEREAS, the discovery completion date in the Federal Action is set for 

October 10, 2007; 

 

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WHEREAS, in light of the approaching discovery completion date, and in an 

effort to coordinate the completion of all previously noticed depositions, the Parties 

agree that deferral of the discovery completion date for the sole purpose of completing 

said previously noticed depositions up to and including November 16, 2007 would be 

appropriate; 

WHEREAS, the Parties also agree that deferral of the filing deadline for 

discovery motions relating solely to depositions up to and including November 26, 

2007 would be appropriate; 

WHEREAS, the Parties also agree that the deferral of the filing deadline for 

dispositive motions up to and including December 10, 2007 would be appropriate; 

WHEREAS, the proposed extended discovery completion date will not affect 

any deadlines with respect to written discovery or related non-dispositive motion 

filing deadlines as set forth in this Court’s Amended Scheduling Conference Order; 

 

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

1. The Parties shall have up to and including November 16, 2007 by which to 

complete all previously noticed depositions; 

2. All motions relating solely to issues of the depositions will be filed and 

personally served on or before November 16, 2007, and heard on December 14, 2007, 

at 9:00 a.m. before Magistrate Judge Dennis L. Beck in Courtroom 9. 

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3. All dispositive motions will be filed and personally served on or before 

December 10, 2007, and heard on January 7, 2008 at the Pre-Trial Conference at 

11:00 a.m. in Courtroom 3, before the Honorable Oliver W. Wanger, United States 

District Court Judge. 

4. This stipulation does not affect the filing and hearing deadlines for any other 

deadlines in this matter, or trial on this matter, as set forth in this Court’s May 25, 

2007 Amended Scheduling Conference Order. 

IT IS SO STIPULATED. 

Dated: October __, 2007 

HOWREY LLP 

By: 

JOANNE LICHTMAN 

Attorneys for Plaintiff, 

FOSTER POULTRY FARMS, 

INC. 

Dated: October __, 2007 

THOMAS P. HALLINAN, CITY 

ATTORNEY, CITY OF LIVINGSTON; 

and BURKE, WILLIAMS & SORENSEN 

LLP 

By: 

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: 

1. The Parties shall have up to and including November 16, 2007 by which to 

complete all previously noticed depositions; 

2. All motions relating solely to issues of the depositions will be filed and 

personally served on or before November 16, 2007, and heard on December 14, 2007, 

at 9:00 a.m. before Magistrate Judge Dennis L. Beck in Courtroom 9. 

3. All dispositive motions will be filed and personally served on or before 

December 10, 2007, and heard on January 7, 2008 at the Pre-Trial Conference at 

11:00 a.m. in Courtroom 3, before the Honorable Oliver W. Wanger, United States 

District Court Judge. 

3. The remaining dates and instructions set forth in the December 12, 2006 

Scheduling Conference Order and May 25, 2007 Amended Scheduling Conference 

Order shall remain unchanged. 

Date: October 5, 2007 /s/ OLIVER W. WANGER 

 Hon. Oliver W. Wanger, District Court Judge 

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