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Parties Involved:
Arch Insurance Company
Cross Claimant
Performance Excavators, Inc.
Plaintiff
Tenax Corporation
Cross Defendant

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STIPULATION REGARDING STAY OF PROCEEDINGS AND [PROPOSED] ORDER – Case No. CV 07-

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GEORGE F. VOGT, JR., CASB No. 107310 

MARCUS L TURNER, CASB No. 232439 

HERRIG & VOGT, LLP 

4210 Douglas Blvd., Suite 100 

Granite Bay, California 95746 

Telephone: (916) 960-1000 

Facsimile: (916) 960-1005 

Attorneys for Plaintiffs 

PERFORMANCE EXCAVATORS, INC. 

GORDON C. YOUNG, CASB No. 158100 

gordon.young@kyl.com 

BENJAMIN W. WHITE, CASB No. 221532 

ben.white@kyl.com 

KEESAL, YOUNG & LOGAN 

A Professional Corporation 

Four Embarcadero Center, Suite 1500 

San Francisco, California 94111 

Telephone: (415) 398-6000 

Facsimile: (415) 981-0136 

Attorneys for Defendant 

TENAX CORPORATION 

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 

EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 

PERFORMANCE EXCAVATORS, INC., 

Plaintiff, 

vs. 

ARCH INSURANCE COMPANY, TENAX 

CORPORATION, and DOES 1 through 20, 

inclusive, 

Defendants. 

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Case No. CV 07-01791-LEW-JFM 

STIPULATION REGARDING STAY OF 

PROCEEDINGS AND [PROPOSED] 

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Plaintiff PERFORMANCE EXCAVATORS, INC. (“PEI”) and Defendant 

TENAX CORPORATION (“Tenax”), by and through their undersigned attorneys, hereby 

submit this Stipulation Regarding Stay of Proceedings for consideration and approval by 

the Court. 

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WHEREAS, on or about May 21, 2007, PEI filed an arbitration complaint 

with the State of California Office of Administrative Hearings (the “Arbitration”) in 

which it named the Chico Redevelopment Agency (“RDA”) and the Barber-Webb 

Company (“Barber-Webb”) as Respondents; 

WHEREAS, in the Arbitration, PEI alleges that the RDA and Barber-Webb 

breached their contracts with PEI with respect to the acquisition and installation of a 

geocomposite drainage layer (“GDL”) which the RDA required to be obtained from 

Tenax; 

WHEREAS, on or about May 24, 2007, the RDA filed a cross-complaint 

against PEI in the Arbitration in which the RDA alleges that PEI and Barber-Webb 

refused and/or failed to acquire or install the GDL material as required by the contract 

PEI entered into with the RDA; 

WHEREAS, on or about July 18, 2007, PEI filed the Complaint at issue in 

this action against Tenax for breach of contract, intentional and negligent interference 

with PEI’s contract with the RDA, and indemnification against any finding of liability in 

connection with the RDA’s cross-complaint; 

WHEREAS, PEI and Tenax agree that the Arbitration and this action 

involve the same and/or similar operative facts and therefore, in the interest of judicial 

economy, desire to stay the proceedings in this matter pending the outcome of the 

Arbitration; 

WHEREAS, although PEI is willing to agree to a stay of this action pending 

the outcome of the Arbitration, PEI desires to take the deposition of Tenax and one of its 

employees in this action and in the Arbitration simultaneously; 

WHEREAS, Tenax is willing to permit PEI to take the deposition of Tenax 

and one its employees. 

NOW, THEREFORE, IT IS HEREBY STIPULATED AND AGREED by and 

between the parties herein, through their respective attorneys of record, as follows: 

(1) all of PEI’s claims against Tenax in this action shall be stayed 

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pending the outcome of the Arbitration; and 

(2) PEI shall be permitted to take the deposition of Tenax and one its 

employees at a time and place that is agreeable to the parties. The depositions shall 

constitute PEI’s one deposition per person allowed, pursuant to Rule 30(a)(2)(B) of the 

Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, of the two Tenax witnesses who appear. 

DATED: February 29, 2008 

 _/s/ George F. Vogt______ 

 GEORGE F. VOGT, JR. 

 MARCUS L TURNER 

 HERRIG & VOGT, LLP 

 Attorneys for Plaintiff 

 PERFORMANCE EXCAVATORS, INC. 

DATED: February 29, 2008 

 _/s/ Gordon C. Young____ 

 GORDON C. YOUNG 

 BENJAMIN W. WHITE 

 KEESAL, YOUNG & LOGAN 

 Attorneys for Defendant 

 TENAX CORPORATION 

IT IS SO ORDERED: 

DATED: March 3, 2008 

HONORABLE RONALD S. W. LEW 

Senior, U.S. District Court Judge 

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