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Parties Involved:
Jeffrey Abbett
Defendant
Gregory W. Abbett
Plaintiff
Abbett Electric Corporation
Defendant

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STIP. AND [PROPOSED] ORDER RE MOT. TO TRANS. VENUE, etc. – CASE NO. CV 10-02076 SBA

DAVID M. GIVEN (State Bar No. 142375)

PHILLIPS, ERLEWINE & GIVEN LLP

50 California Street, 35th Floor

San Francisco, California 94111

Telephone: (415) 398-0900

Facsimile: (415) 398-0911

dmg@phillaw.com

Attorneys for Defendant JEFFREY ABBETT

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

GREGORY W. ABBETT, an individual,

Plaintiff,

v.

ABBETT ELECTRIC CORPORATION, a

California corporation; and JEFFREY

ABBETT, an individual,

Defendants. ___________________________________

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Case No. CV 10-02076 SBA

San Francisco Superior Court Case No.

CGC-10-498763

STIPULATION AND ORDER RE

MOTION TO TRANSFER VENUE

OF ACTION

Date: July 27, 2010

Time: 1:00 p.m.

Courtroom 1

I. RECITALS

WHEREAS, plaintiff originally filed his complaint in this matter in the San

Francisco Superior Court; and

WHEREAS, defendant ABBETT ELECTRIC CORPORATION timely removed

the matter to this Court in accordance with applicable law (Docket Doc. No. 1); and

WHEREAS, at or around that time, defendant ABBETT ELECTRIC

CORPORATION moved to transfer venue of this matter to the Eastern District of

California (Docket Doc. No. 6), for reference to that District’s Bankruptcy Court,

Sacramento Division, in accordance with that District’s General Order No. 161, where

plaintiff’s personal Chapter 11 bankruptcy proceeding is pending before the Honorable

Thomas C. Holman, Case No. 09-28058-B-11; and

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WHEREAS, this matter is a “core proceeding,” as that term is used in the

Bankruptcy Code, subject to Bankruptcy Court jurisdiction in the aforementioned Chapter

11 proceeding; and

WHEREAS, it is in the interest of justice that this lawsuit together with those

matters related to it, including without limitation defendants’ compulsory counterclaims

(all or substantially all of which have previously been filed as claims in plaintiff’s

bankruptcy court proceeding), be resolved in the context of the aforementioned Chapter

11 proceeding; and

WHEREAS, defendants have not yet filed or served a responsive pleading to the

complaint, the parties’ having agreed to continue that event to a date no later than five (5)

business days following notice from the Eastern District of California that the matter has

been docketed there, or as the Court may otherwise order; and

WHEREAS, the parties intend to reserve their respective rights to demand trial by

jury in their respective actions, and on their respective claims, against one another in this

matter.

II. STIPULATION

NOW, THEREFORE, the parties through their respective attorneys stipulate and

agree as follows:

1. The foregoing recitals are true and correct.

2. For all the foregoing reasons, at its earliest convenience, the Court should

transfer this matter to the Eastern District of California, with the expectation that the

matter will be referred to that District’s Bankruptcy Court, Sacramento Division, in

accordance with that District’s General Order No. 161, where plaintiff’s personal Chapter

11 bankruptcy proceeding is pending before the Honorable Thomas C. Holman, Case No.

09-28058-B-11, thereby resolving the pending motion to transfer venue.

3. In that event, defendants shall serve and file their responsive pleading(s) no

later than five (5) business days following notice from the Eastern District of California

that the matter has been docketed there, or as the Court may otherwise order; and

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4. The parties shall reserve their respective rights to demand trial by jury in

their respective actions, and on their respective claims, against one another in this matter.

DATED: July 1, 2010 ROSENQUIST& ASSOCIATES

By: /s/ 

Nils Rosenquist

Attorneys for Plaintiff GREGORY W.

ABBETT

DATED: July 1, 2010 LAW OFFICES OF JAMES A. TIEMSTRA

By: /s/ 

James A. Tiemstra

Attorneys for Defendant ABBETT ELECTRIC 

CORPORATION

DATED: July 1, 2010 PHILLIPS, ERLEWINE & GIVEN LLP

By: /s/ 

David M. Given

Attorneys for Defendant JEFFREY ABBETT

III. ORDER

Upon the foregoing stipulation, and for good cause, it is hereby ORDERED that this

matter be and hereby is transferred to the United States District Court in and for the

Eastern District of California. The clerk shall forthwith undertake to transfer the file of

this matter to that District. The pending motion to transfer is taken off calendar as moot.

DATED: 6/30/10 

U.S.D.J.

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