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Parties Involved:
American Manufacturers Mutual Insurance Company
Plaintiff
American Motorists Insurance Company
Plaintiff
David L. Carothers
Defendant
Terri L. Carothers
Defendant
Carothers Construction, Inc.
Defendant

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SEDGWICK, DETERT, MORAN & ARNOLD LLP 

JAMES P. DIWIK (Bar No. 164016) 

JOEL M. LONG (Bar No. 226061) 

One Embarcadero Center, 16th Floor 

San Francisco, California 94111-3628 

Telephone: (415) 781-7900 

Facsimile: (415) 781-2635 

Attorneys for Plaintiffs 

American Manufacturers Mutual Insurance Company 

and American Motorists Insurance Company 

CASSINAT LAW CORPORATION 

JOHN E. CASSINAT (Bar No. 131214) 

RONALD L. CARELLO (Bar No. 179238) 

4815 Laguna Park Drive, Suite C 

Elk Grove, California 95758 

Telephone: (916) 393-3030 

Facsimile: (916) 393-4238 

Attorneys for Defendants 

Carothers Construction, Inc., David L. Carothers 

and Terri L. Carothers 

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 

EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 

Pursuant to Local Rule 83-143, and for good cause shown below, plaintiffs American 

Manufacturers Mutual Insurance Company and American Motorists Insurance Company and 

defendants Carothers Construction, Inc. (“Carothers Construction”), David L. Carothers and 

Terri L. Carothers respectfully request and stipulate to a 75-day stay of this action pending 

finalization of a settlement in principle between the parties. 

AMERICAN MANUFACTURERS 

MUTUAL INSURANCE COMPANY, 

et al., 

Plaintiffs, 

v. 

CAROTHERS CONSTRUCTION, INC., 

et al., 

Defendants. 

CASE NO. 2:05-CV-00122-MCE-GGH 

STIPULATION AND ORDER STAYING 

ACTION FOR 75 DAYS PENDING 

FINALIZATION OF SETTLEMENT 

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In support of this Stipulation, the parties state as follows: 

1. The parties have reached an agreement in principle to settle this action. The 

settlement, however, is contingent upon the parties satisfying several conditions within the next 

approximately 75 days, including, among other things, resolving certain claims under the surety 

bonds issued by plaintiffs on behalf of defendant Carothers Construction and securing the release 

to plaintiffs of bonded contract funds from public works construction projects on which Carothers 

Construction was the general contractor. 

2. So that the parties may focus their time and effort on attempting to satisfy the 

settlement conditions described above while preserving the structure of the current pretrial 

schedule (i.e., the time periods between the various pretrial deadlines and the trial date) under the 

Court’s September 20, 2005 Pretrial (Status) Scheduling Order (“Scheduling Order”) (as 

modified by the Stipulation and Order for limited Extension of Fact Discovery Deadline entered 

by the Court on December 15, 2005) in the event that the settlement conditions are not satisfied, 

the parties have agreed to stay this action for a period of 75 days. 

3. If the settlement conditions are not satisfied within the next 75 days, or by no later 

than April 3, 2006, then the parties will so advise the Court and submit to the Court a proposed 

revised Scheduling Order advancing the pretrial and trial dates contained within the current 

Scheduling Order by the number of days that the action is stayed. 

4. Counsel for the parties have met and conferred in connection with the preparation 

of this Stipulation and agree that the stay requested herein is in the interests of justice, in the best 

interests of the parties, and will increase the likelihood of settlement before trial. 

Based on the foregoing Stipulation, the parties respectfully request that the Court stay this 

action for 75 days from the date of filing this Stipulation as described above. 

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DATED: January 18, 2006 SEDGWICK, DETERT, MORAN & ARNOLD LLP 

By: s/Joel M. Long 

Joel M. Long 

Attorneys for Plaintiffs 

American Manufacturers Mutual Insurance Company and 

American Motorists Insurance Company 

DATED: January 18, 2006 CASSINAT LAW CORPORATION 

By: s/Ronald L. Carello 

Ronald L. Carello 

Attorneys for Defendants 

Carothers Construction, David L. Carothers and Terri L. 

Carothers 

SIGNATURE ATTESTATION: I, Joel M. Long, counsel for plaintiffs, attest that concurrence in 

the filing of this document has been obtained by Ronald L. Carello, Esq., counsel for defendants 

as set forth above. 

By: s/Joel M. Long 

Joel M. Long 

Attorneys for Plaintiffs 

 American Manufacturers Mutual Insurance Company and 

 American Motorists Insurance Company 

IT IS SO ORDERED: 

Dated: January 20, 2006 

__________________________________ 

MORRISON C. ENGLAND, JR 

UNITED STATES DISTRICT JUDGE 

 

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