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MICHAEL J. HADDAD (State Bar No. 189114) 

JULIA SHERWIN (State Bar No. 189268) 

HADDAD & SHERWIN 

505 Seventeenth Street 

Oakland, California 94612 

Telephone: (510) 452-5500 

Fax: (510) 452-5510 

Attorneys for Plaintiffs 

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 

URIAH DACH, DECEASED, 

THROUGH HIS SUCCESSORS IN 

INTEREST, TIMOTHY DACH AND 

ELAINE DACH; TIMOTHY DACH, 

Individually; and ELAINE DACH, 

Individually, 

 Plaintiffs, 

vs. 

CITY OF RICHMOND, a public entity, 

POLICE OFFICER LOUIE TIRONA, 

Individually, POLICE OFFICER JOHN 

BRUCE, Individually, POLICE 

OFFICER CHRISTOPHER DECIOUS, 

Individually, POLICE OFFICER 

GARD, Individually, and DOES 1 

through 10, Jointly and Severally, 

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No: C-09-00171 JL (NJV) 

JOINT CASE MANAGEMENT 

CONFERENCE UPDATE 

CMC Date: February 3, 2010 

Time: 10:30 am 

 

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All parties to this lawsuit, by and through their respective counsel, state that an 

initial settlement conference with Judge Vadas was held on December 18, 2009. By that 

time, the parties had already conducted the depositions of all defendant officers, 

paramedics from the incident scene, and both plaintiffs. Voluminous documents were also 

inspected or exchanged, including police records, thousands of pages of decedent’s prior 

medical records, and damages evidence. 

At the settlement conference, the parties agreed to frontload and narrow the issues 

for current discovery to cause of death through all pathologists involved in this matter, 

including from the Contra Costa County Coroner’s Bureau, the independent pathologist 

retained by the family of the decedent shortly after his death, and each side’s retained 

expert pathologists. Over the next 120 days, the parties propose to depose the county and 

independent pathologists, exchange brief reports from each side’s retained expert 

pathologists, and if necessary, depose those experts, followed by another settlement 

conference with Judge Vadas. 

The parties request that discovery and disclosure dates remain open after this 

process in the event this matter does not resolve, and that this Court set a further Case 

Management Conference in late June, 2010. The parties would have no objection if this 

Court were to vacate the current Case Management Conference scheduled for February 3, 

2010. 

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Dated: January 27, 2010 MCNAMARA, DODGE, NEY, BEATTY, SLATTERY, 

PFALZER, BORGES & BROTHERS LLP 

By: /s/ Noah G. Blechman 

James V. Fitzgerald, III 

Noah G. Blechman 

Attorneys for Defendants 

CITY OF RICHMOND, POLICE OFFICERS LOUIE 

TIRONA, JOHN BRUCE, CHRISTOPHER 

DECIOUS, AND OFFICER GARD 

Dated: January 27, 2010 HADDAD & SHERWIN 

 By: /s/ Michael J. Haddad_____ 

Michael J. Haddad 

Julia Sherwin 

Attorneys for Plaintiffs 

URIAH DACH, DECEASED, THROUGH HIS 

SUCCESSORS IN INTEREST, TIMOTHY DACH 

AND ELAINE DACH; TIMOTHY DACH, Individually; 

and ELAINE DACH, Individually 

 

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