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Parties Involved:
American Guild of Musical Artists, AFL-CIO
Plaintiff
San Francisco Opera Association
Defendant

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STIPULATION AND REQUEST FOR ORDER 

CONTINUING CASE MANAGEMENT CONFERENCE; 

CASE NO. C04-5005 JCS 

JEFFREY D. POLSKY (State Bar No. 120975) 

KAUFF McCLAIN & McGUIRE LLP 

One Post Street, Suite 2600 

San Francisco, California 94104 

Telephone: (415) 421-3111 

Facsimile: (415) 421-0938 

Attorneys for Plaintiff 

American Guild Of Musical Artists, AFL-CIO 

FOLGER LEVIN & KAHN LLP 

Susan W. Ansberry (SB# 121300) 

Jessica Tomlinson (SB# 220531) 

Embarcadero Center West 

275 Battery Street, 23rd Floor 

San Francisco, CA 94111 

Telephone: (415) 986-2800 

Facsimile: (415) 986-2827 

Email: sansberry@flk.com

jtomlinson@flk.com

Attorneys for Defendant San Francisco Opera 

Association 

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 

AMERICAN GUILD OF MUSICAL 

ARTISTS, AFL-CIO, 

Plaintiff, 

v.

SAN FRANCISCO OPERA 

ASSOCIATION, 

Defendant.

Case No. C-04-05005 JCS 

STIPULATION AND REQUEST FOR 

ORDER CONTINUING CASE 

MANAGEMENT CONFERENCE 

Date of Conference: October 14, 2005 

Subject to the approval of this Court, the parties, through their attorneys, stipulate as 

follows: 

1. Plaintiff American Guild of Musical Artists, AFL-CIO (“plaintiff” or 

“AGMA”) and defendant San Francisco Opera Association (“defendant” or “San Francisco 

Opera”) are parties to a collective bargaining agreement. AGMA filed this action on November 

24, 2004 to compel defendant San Francisco Opera to arbitrate certain disputes pursuant to the 

grievance procedures specified in that collective bargaining agreement. 

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2. Since this action was filed, plaintiff and defendant, through their attorneys, 

have arranged to process the pending grievances. The parties have met on six separate occasions. 

Tom Angelo, an arbitrator and mediator retained by the parties, and the parties’ counsel, were 

present for four of those meetings (most recently on June 15, 2005). Through these meetings and 

related negotiations, the parties have resolved the vast majority of the outstanding grievances.

3. The Court held an initial case management conference in this case on July 

15, 2005, at which time the Court set a further case management conference on October 15, 2005 

to allow the parties an opportunity to resolve the remaining grievances. 

4. The parties are scheduled to appear before Mr. Angelo for a further 

settlement meeting on November 28, 2005, to attempt to resolve the remaining grievances. 

Pursuant to Rule 26(f) of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure and paragraph 4 of Magistrate 

Judge Spero’s Case Management Order, the parties respectfully request that the Case 

Management Conference scheduled for October 14, 2005 be continued until after the November 

28 settlement meeting before Mr. Angelo. The parties propose a continuance to January 13, 2006.

They further request that the deadlines for completing initial disclosures or stating objections in 

the Rule 26(f) Report, filing and serving a Case Management Statement, and filing and serving a 

Rule 26(f) Report be continued to a date one week before the rescheduled Case Management 

Conference.

5. Counsel for defendant is filing this stipulation electronically and hereby 

attests, pursuant to General Order 45, Section X(B), that plaintiff concurs in the filing. 

Dated: September 12, 2005 KAUFF, McCLAIN & McGUIRE LLP 

/s/ Jeffrey D. Polsky 

Jeffrey D. Polsky 

Attorneys for Plaintiff 

AMERICAN GUILD OF MUSICAL ARTISTS, 

AFL-CIO

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Dated: September 12, 2005 FOLGER LEVIN & KAHN LLP

/s/ Susan W. Ansberry 

Susan W. Ansberry 

Attorneys for Defendant 

SAN FRANCISCO OPERA ASSOCIATION 

PROPOSED ORDER

The Case Management Conference in this matter is hereby continued to January 13, 2006,

in Courtroom A, 15th Floor at 1:30 p.m. The last day to complete initial disclosures or state 

objection in Rule 26(f) Report, file and serve a Case Management Statement, and file and serve a 

Rule 26(f) Report is hereby continued to January 6, 2006. 

IT IS SO ORDERED. 

Dated: ______________ ______________________________ 

 JOSEPH C. SPERO 

 United States Magistrate Judge 

83023\5013\458650.1

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