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Parties Involved:
California Sportfishing Protection Alliance
Plaintiff
Gayle Manufacturing Company
Defendant
United States
Amicus

Document Text:

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 Joint Notice of Settlement; CASE NO. 2:07-CV-01261-LEW-JFW 

 Stipulated Request to Stay Proceeding Pending Agencies’ Review of 

 Settlement Agreement; [Proposed] Order 

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MICHAEL R. LOZEAU (State Bar No. 142893) 

DOUGLAS J. CHERMAK (State Bar No. 233382) 

Law Office of Michael R. Lozeau 

1516 Oak Street, Suite 216 

Alameda, CA 94501 

Tel: (510) 749-9102 

Fax: (510) 749-9103 (fax) 

E-mail: mrlozeau@lozeaulaw.com 

ANDREW L. PACKARD (State Bar No. 168690) 

MICHAEL P. LYNES (State Bar No. 230462) 

Law Offices of Andrew L. Packard 

319 Pleasant Street 

Petaluma, CA 94952 

Tel: (707) 763-7227 

Fax: (415) 763-9227 

E-mail: andrew@packardlawoffices.com 

Attorneys for Plaintiff 

CALIFORNIA SPORTFISHING PROTECTION ALLIANCE 

ROBERTA L. LARSON (State Bar No. 191705) 

KANWARJIT S. DUA (State Bar No. 214591) 

Somach, Simmons & Dunn 

813 Sixth Street, Third Floor 

Sacramento, CA 95814-2403 

Tel: (916) 446-7979 

Fax: (916) 446-8199 

E-mail: kdua@somachlaw.com 

Attorneys for Defendant 

GAYLE MANUFACTURING COMPANY 

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 

EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 

CALIFORNIA SPORTFISHING 

PROTECTION ALLIANCE, a non-profit 

corporation, 

 Plaintiff, 

 vs. 

GAYLE MANUFACTURING COMPANY, 

a corporation. 

 Defendant. 

Case No. 2:07-CV-01261-LEW-JFW 

 JOINT NOTICE OF SETTLEMENT 

 IN LIEU OF CASE MANAGEMENT 

 STATEMENTS AND RULE 26(f) 

 REPORT; STIPULATED REQUEST 

 TO STAY PROCEEDING PENDING 

 AGENCIES’ REVIEW OF 

 SETTLEMENT AGREEMENT; 

 ORDER 

 Complaint filed: June 26, 2007 

 Hon. Ronald S.W. Lew 

 

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Pursuant to Local Rules 16-160 and 16-272, Plaintiff California Sportfishing Protection 

Alliance and Defendant Gayle Manufacturing Company hereby notify the Court that the parties 

have reached a settlement agreement that will fully resolve this litigation. A true and correct 

copy of the executed settlement agreement is attached as Exhibit A to the Declaration of Douglas 

J. Chermak, filed contemporaneously with this Notice and Stipulated Request. Plaintiff has 

forwarded the settlement agreement to the United States Environmental Protection Agency and 

the United States Department of Justice to begin a 45-day review period by those agencies 

prescribed by Section 505(c)(3) of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act, 33 U.S.C. § 

1365(c)(3). Chermak Dec., ¶ 3; Id, Exhibit B. At the completion of the 45-day agency review 

period, the parties will file a stipulated request for dismissal requesting the Court to maintain 

jurisdiction over this matter to enforce the terms of the settlement agreement. Id., ¶ 4 & Exhibit 

A, ¶ 2. 

In light of the parties’ settlement agreement and the 45-day federal agency review period, 

the parties further request that the Court accept this notice of settlement in lieu of the formal joint 

case management statement and Rule 26(f) Report required pursuant to the Court’s case 

management order dated June 27, 2007. 

The parties further request, in light of the settlement agreement and the 45-day agency 

review period, that the Court extend the 20-day period from the date of this notice for filing the 

dispositional document, i.e., in this case, the stipulated request for dismissal – to a date 

approximately 70 days from the date of this notice in order for the federal agencies to exercise 

their statutorily prescribed 45-day review. See Local Rule 16-160(b). The parties further request 

that, in light of the above, the Court immediately stay all proceedings in this action until 

February 26, 2008, by which date the parties 

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will have filed their stipulated request for dismissal. The parties further request that all deadlines 

and dates currently scheduled by the Court be vacated. 

Dated: December 21, 2007 Respectfully submitted, 

 LAW OFFICE OF MICHAEL R. LOZEAU 

 By: _/s/ Douglas J. Chermak______________

 Douglas J. Chermak 

 Attorney for Plaintiff 

CALIFORNIA SPORTFISHING PROTECTION 

ALLIANCE 

 

 SOMACH, SIMMONS & DUNN 

 By: _/s/ Kanwarjit S. Dua (as authorized on 12/21/2007)

 Kanwarjit S. Dua 

 Attorney for Defendant 

GAYLE MANUFACTURING COMPANY 

 

PURSUANT TO STIPULATION, IT IS SO ORDERED. All proceedings in this action are 

hereby stayed. The dates set forth in the Court’s previous joint status report order are vacated. 

The parties shall file their proposed dispositional document not later than February 26, 2008. 

Dated: December 21, 2007 

/s/ Ronald S. W. Lew___________

 Hon. Ronald S.W. Lew 

 United States District Court Judge 

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