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Parties Involved:
City and County of San Francisco
Defendant
Estate of Amilcar Perez Lopez
Plaintiff
Margarita Lopez Perez
Plaintiff
Juan Perez
Plaintiff
Eric Reboli
Defendant
San Francisco Police Department
Defendant
Greg Suhr
Defendant
Craig Tiffe
Defendant

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United States District Court

Northern District of California

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

ESTATE OF AMILCAR PEREZ LOPEZ, et 

al.,

Plaintiffs,

v.

GREG SUHR, et al.,

Defendants.

Case No. 15-cv-01846-HSG 

ORDER TEMPORARILY STAYING 

DISCLOSURES AND DISCOVERY

Re: Dkt. No. 20

Pending before the Court is a motion to stay discovery and disclosures in this matter, filed 

by Defendants Police Chief Greg Suhr, the City and County of San Francisco, Officer Craig Tiffe, 

and Officer Eric Reboli (collectively, “Defendants”). Dkt. No. 20. Plaintiffs Estate of Amilcar 

Lopez, Margarita Lopez Perez, and Juan Perez (collectively, “Plaintiffs”) filed an opposition on 

October 2, 2015, Dkt. No. 25, and Defendants replied, Dkt No. 27. The Court held a hearing on 

the motion on October 29, 2015, at which counsel for both parties submitted argument.

As discussed with the parties at the hearing, the Court hereby orders disclosures and 

discovery in this case STAYED for 60 days, calculated from the date of the hearing, through 

December 29, 2015. See Fed. R. Civ. P. 26; see also Keating v. Office of Thrift Supervision, 45 

F.3d 322, 324-25 (9th Cir. 1995). The Court further ORDERS the parties to meet and confer to 

determine if there are any materials they can informally exchange during the pendency of the stay.

The parties are ordered to appear at a further case management conference on December 

29, 2015 at 2:00 p.m. At the hearing, the parties should be prepared to discuss the status of both 

the San Francisco Police Department’s investigation and, to the extent known, the San Francisco 

District Attorney’s Office investigation into the officer-involved shooting that is the subject matter 

of this litigation. The Court will want to discuss: (1) whether the investigations have been

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completed; (2) if they have not, a good faith estimate as to when those investigations will be 

completed; (3) whether the parties have met and conferred as ordered; and (4) whether the parties 

have exchanged, or plan to exchange, any materials as a result of their meet and confer.

Defendants need not renew their motion upon expiration of the stay. The Court will notify 

the parties at the December 29 hearing if it requires supplemental briefing regarding whether to 

extend the stay.

IT IS SO ORDERED.

Dated: November 9, 2015

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HAYWOOD S. GILLIAM, JR.

United States District Judge

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