Johnson et al v. Bay Area Rapid Transit District et al

Filing 257

ORDER RESETTING CMC TO 12/14/12 AT 10:30 A.M. Case Management Statement due by 12/7/2012. Further Case Management Conference set for 12/14/2012 10:30 AM in Courtroom 5, 17th Floor, San Francisco.. Signed by Judge Edward M. Chen on 8/8/12. (bpf, COURT STAFF) (Filed on 8/8/2012)

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1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 DALE L. ALLEN, JR., # 145279 LINDA MEYER, # 118190 DIRK D. LARSEN, # 246028 LOW, BALL & LYNCH 505 Montgomery Street, 7th Floor San Francisco, California 94111-2584 Telephone (415) 981-6630 Facsimile (415) 982-1634 Attorneys for Defendants BAY AREA RAPID TRANSIT DISTRICT, GARY GEE in his official capacity as CHIEF OF POLICE for BAY AREA RAPID TRANSIT DISTRICT, and DOROTHY DUGGER in her official capacity as GENERAL MANAGER for BAY AREA RAPID TRANSIT DISTRICT Email: dallen@lowball.com Email: lmeyer@lowball.com Email: dlarsen@lowball.com JOHN L. BURRIS, # 69888 ADANTE D. POINTER, # 236229 LAW OFFICES OF JOHN L. BURRIS 7677 Oakport Street, Suite 1120 Oakland, California 94621 Telephone (510) 839-5200 Facsimile: (510) 839-3882 Attorneys for Plaintiffs WANDA JOHNSON, individually and as personal representative of the ESTATE of OSCAR J. GRANT III, the ESTATE OF OSCAR J. GRANT III, SOPHINA MESA as Guardian ad Litem of minor, T.G. Email: john.burris@johnburrislaw.com Email: adante.pointer@johnburrislaw.com 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 ALISON BERRY WILKINSON, # 135890 BERRY WILKINSON LAW GROUP 4040 Civic Center Drive, Suite 200 San Rafael, CA 94903 Telephone (415) 259-6638 Facsimile (866) 578-1333 WILLIAM R. RAPOPORT, # 47086 LAW OFFICES OF WILLIAM R. RAPOPORT 634 Bair Island Road, Suite 400 Redwood City, CA 94063 Telephone (650) 340-7107 Facsimile (650) 572-1857 Attorney for Defendant MARYSOL DOMENICI Email: alison@berrywilkinson.com Attorney for Defendant ANTHONY PIRONE Email: williamrapoport@yahoo.com MICHAEL L. RAINS, # 91013 LARA CULLINANE-SMITH, # 268671 RAINS LUCIA STERN, P.C. 2300 Contra Costa Boulevard Pleasant Hill, CA 94523 Telephone (925) 609-1699 Facsimile (925) 609-1690 PANOS LAGOS, #61821 LAW OFFICES OF PANOS LAGOS 5032 Woodminster Lane Oakland, California 94602 Telephone (510) 530-4078 Facsimile (510) 530-4725 Attorneys for Defendant JOHANNES MEHSERLE Attorneys for Plaintiff OSCAR J. GRANT, JR. Email: Mrains@rlslawyers.com Email: Lsmith@rlslawyers.com Email: panoslagos@aol.com 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 -1JOINT SUPPLEMENTAL CASE STATUS REPORT AND REQUEST FOR CONTINUANCE OF CASE MANAGEMENT CONFERENCE; [PROPOSED] ORDER J:\1752\SF0208\Pleadings\JT CASE STATUS STMT 081012.doc Case No. C09-00901 EMC 1 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 2 NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 WANDA JOHNSON, et al., ) ) Plaintiffs, ) ) vs. ) ) BAY AREA RAPID TRANSIT DISTRICT, et al., ) ) Defendants. ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) AND RELATED ACTIONS. ) ) 15 Case No.: C09-00901 EMC Related Cases: C09-04014 EMC (Oscar Grant, Jr.) C09-04835 EMC (Bryson, et al.) C10-00005 EMC (Caldwell) JOINT SUPPLEMENTAL CASE STATUS REPORT AND REQUEST FOR CONTINUANCE OF CASE MANAGEMENT CONFERENCE; [PROPOSED] ORDER Date: Time: Courtroom: Judge: August 10, 2012 10:30 a.m. 5, 17th Floor Hon. Edward M. Chen The parties to the above-entitled action jointly submit this Joint Supplemental Status Report. As 16 set forth below, the action is presently stayed pending appeals taken by defendants Mehserle, Pirone 17 and Domenici, and those appeals remain unresolved. Accordingly, the parties respectfully request that 18 the Court vacate the August 10, 2012 case management conference and schedule a further case 19 management conference to take place in approximately 120 days. 20 1. 21 Factual and Procedural Background: These related cases arise out of an incident that occurred in the early morning hours of January 22 1, 2009, at the Fruitvale BART Station in Oakland, California. Defendant BART Police Officers 23 Anthony Pirone, Marysol Domenici, Johannes Mehserle, Jon Woffinden and Emery Knudtson 24 participated in the detention of decedent Oscar Grant III and plaintiffs Jack Bryson, Jr., Nigel Bryson, 25 Carlos Reyes, Michael Greer, Fernando Anicete and JohnTu Caldwell. During the encounter, Officer 26 Mehserle shot Grant, who later died from his injuries. 27 Plaintiff Wanda Johnson, Grant’s mother, brought suit against BART and its officers 28 individually and as the representative of Grant’s estate, along with Grant’s minor daughter, T.G., by -2JOINT SUPPLEMENTAL CASE STATUS REPORT AND REQUEST FOR CONTINUANCE OF CASE MANAGEMENT CONFERENCE; [PROPOSED] ORDER J:\1752\SF0208\Pleadings\JT CASE STATUS STMT 081012.doc Case No. C09-00901 EMC 1 and through her guardian ad litem, Sophina Mesa, in case no. C09-00901 (the “Johnson matter”). 2 Plaintiffs Brysons, Greer, Reyes and Anicete brought suit in case no. C09-04835 (the “Bryson 3 matter”). Plaintiff Caldwell brought suit in case no. C10-00005 (the “Caldwell matter”). Plaintiff Oscar 4 Grant, Jr., the father of decedent Grant, brought suit in case no. C09-04014 (the “Grant matter”). The 5 plaintiffs alleged civil rights claims under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 and, to varying degrees, supplemental state 6 claims. 7 T.G. settled with all defendants and dismissed her claims in February 2010. The defendants 8 filed motions for summary judgment/adjudication in February 2011. On May 20, 2011, the Court 9 issued an order granting in part and denying in part defendants’ motions. Defendant Officers Pirone, 10 Domenici and Mehserle have appealed the court’s denial of qualified immunity under § 1983 to the 11 Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. Defendant Mehserle’s reply brief was filed on December 30, 2011; 12 defendant Domenici’s reply brief was filed on February 15, 2012; and defendant Pirone’s reply brief 13 was filed on April 2, 2012. The appeals are thus fully briefed, but the Ninth Circuit has not scheduled 14 oral argument or issued decision in any of the appeals. 15 In June 2011, plaintiff Johnson settled all of her claims against all defendants. In July 2011, 16 plaintiff Caldwell was killed. His mother, Zephoria Smith, has petitioned the Alameda County 17 Superior Court for Letters of Administration and has filed a copy of the petition and related orders in 18 the present Caldwell matter. The status of plaintiff Caldwell’s claims and representation is unclear at 19 this time. 20 At the Case Management Conference of September 30, 2011, in the above-captioned actions, 21 the Court formally stayed the actions pending the appeals taken by defendants Domenici, Mehserle and 22 Pirone (see Doc. No. 237). As those appeals are still unresolved, the parties respectfully request that 23 the Court vacate the August 10, 2012 case management conference and schedule a further case 24 management conference to take place in approximately 120 days. 25 2. The parties do not anticipate amending the pleadings at this time. 26 27 28 Amendment of Pleadings: 3. Motions: No motions are pending. -3JOINT SUPPLEMENTAL CASE STATUS REPORT AND REQUEST FOR CONTINUANCE OF CASE MANAGEMENT CONFERENCE; [PROPOSED] ORDER J:\1752\SF0208\Pleadings\JT CASE STATUS STMT 081012.doc Case No. C09-00901 EMC 1 4. 2 Discovery: The parties have completed non-expert discovery and have disclosed experts. Defendants 3 propose that the scope of expert discovery be restricted to depositions of the experts already disclosed. 4 5. 5 6 Scheduling and Trial Setting At the October 19, 2010 Case Status Conference, the court set October 22, 2010 as the trial date. The court vacated that date at the March 15, 2010 Case Status Conference. 7 All parties demand a jury trial. The length of the trial will be approximately 20-25 days. 8 Defendants request that the expert-discovery and pretrial schedule be discussed at a further 9 Case Management Conference following the disposition of defendant Pirone, Domenici and 10 Mehserle’s appeals. 11 6. 12 Settlement and ADR: Decedent Grant’s daughter, T.G., settled with all defendants in February 2011. Plaintiff 13 Johnson settled with all defendants in June 2011, at a settlement conference with Magistrate Judge 14 Joseph Spero. Settlement conferences with Judge Spero in June 2011 did not resolve the claims of the 15 plaintiffs in the Bryson, Grant and Caldwell matters. 16 7. 17 Such other matters as may facilitate the just, speedy and inexpensive disposition of this matter. None at this time. 18 19 Dated: August 8, 2012. 20 LOW, BALL & LYNCH 21 22 By 23 24 25 26 27 s/ Dirk D. Larsen DALE L. ALLEN, JR. LINDA MEYER DIRK D. LARSEN Attorneys for Defendants BAY AREA RAPID TRANSIT DISTRICT, GARY GEE in his official capacity as CHIEF OF POLICE for BAY AREA RAPID TRANSIT DISTRICT and DOROTHY DUGGER in her official capacity as GENERAL MANAGER for BAY AREA RAPID TRANSIT DISTRICT 28 -4JOINT SUPPLEMENTAL CASE STATUS REPORT AND REQUEST FOR CONTINUANCE OF CASE MANAGEMENT CONFERENCE; [PROPOSED] ORDER J:\1752\SF0208\Pleadings\JT CASE STATUS STMT 081012.doc Case No. C09-00901 EMC 1 Dated: August 8, 2012. 2 RAINS, LUCIA & STERN 3 4 By 5 6 s/ Lara Cullinane-Smith MICHAEL L. RAINS LARA CULLINANE-SMITH Attorneys for Defendant JOHANNES MEHSERLE 7 8 Dated: August 8, 2012. BERRY WILKINSON LAW GROUP 9 10 11 By 12 13 s/ Alison Berry Wilkinson ALISON BERRY WILKINSON Attorney for Defendant MARYSOL DOMENICI 14 15 Dated: August 8, 2012. LAW OFFICES OF WILLIAM R. RAPOPORT 16 17 By 18 19 s/ William R. Rapoport WILLIAM R. RAPOPORT Attorneys for Defendant ANTHONY PIRONE 20 21 Dated: August 8, 2012. 22 LAW OFFICES OF JOHN L. BURRIS 23 24 By 25 26 27 28 s/ John L. Burris JOHN L. BURRIS ADANTÉ D. POINTER Attorneys for Plaintiffs WANDA JOHNSON, individually and as personal representative of the ESTATE of OSCAR J. GRANT III, the ESTATE OF OSCAR J. GRANT III, SOPHINA MESA as Guardian ad Litem of minor, T.G. -5JOINT SUPPLEMENTAL CASE STATUS REPORT AND REQUEST FOR CONTINUANCE OF CASE MANAGEMENT CONFERENCE; [PROPOSED] ORDER J:\1752\SF0208\Pleadings\JT CASE STATUS STMT 081012.doc Case No. C09-00901 EMC 1 2 Dated: August 8, 2012. LAW OFFICES OF PANOS LAGOS 3 4 By 5 6 s/ Panos Lagos PANOS LAGOS Attorneys for Plaintiff OSCAR GRANT, JR. 7 8 Dated: August 8, 2012. LAW OFFICES OF SHIMEA ANDERSON 9 10 11 By SHIMEA C. ANDERSON Attorneys for Plaintiff JOHNTU CALDWELL 12 13 14 [PROPOSED] ORDER 15 22 2. 2012, at IT IS SO ORDERED. 8/8/12 Dated: . 25 26 December 14 S DISTRICT TE C TA DERED SO OR ED IT IS DIFI AS MO NO HON. EDWARD M. CHENen Ch U.S. DISTRICT JUDGE. ward M udge Ed J 27 RT ER H 28 -6- , RT U O 23 24 That a further Case Management Conference is scheduled for 10:30 a.m./p.m., in Courtroom 5 of the above-entitled Court. R NIA 21 hereby VACATED; FO 20 That the Case Management Conference currently scheduled for August 10, 2012, is LI 19 1. A 18 ORDERED: S 17 Pursuant to the request of the parties herein, and good cause appearing therefor, it is hereby UNIT ED 16 N F D IS T IC T O R C JOINT SUPPLEMENTAL CASE STATUS REPORT AND REQUEST FOR CONTINUANCE OF CASE MANAGEMENT CONFERENCE; [PROPOSED] ORDER J:\1752\SF0208\Pleadings\JT CASE STATUS STMT 081012.doc Case No. C09-00901 EMC 1 DECLARATION OF DIRK D. LARSEN 2 I, DIRK D. LARSEN, declare as follows: 3 1. 4 5 I have personal knowledge of the following facts, and could and would testify competently thereto if called upon to do so. 2. I am an attorney at law duly licensed to practice before all courts of the State of 6 California and before the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, and am employed 7 as an associate with the law firm of Low, Ball & Lynch, attorneys of record herein for defendants BAY 8 AREA RAPID TRANSIT DISTRICT, GARY GEE, JON WOFFINDEN AND EMERY KNUDTSON. 9 3. Beginning on Wednesday, August 1, 2012, I made multiple attempts to contact Shimea 10 C. Anderson, attorney of record herein for plaintiff JOHNTU CALDWELL, via email at the email 11 address listed on this Court’s PACER system regarding the above joint status report / request for 12 continuance of status conference. On August 6, 2012, I attempted to contact Ms. Anderson by 13 telephone at the telephone number listed on this Court’s PACER system as well as at the number listed 14 on the California State Bar’s website. I left a voicemail message on the second number, and did so 15 again on August 7, 2012. As of approximately 12:00 noon on August 8, 2012, I have received no 16 response from Ms. Anderson to my contact attempts. Accordingly, my office is filing the above report 17 / request without Ms. Anderson’s joinder in its contents. 18 19 I swear under penalty of perjury under the laws of the State of California that the foregoing is true and correct to the best of my personal knowledge. 20 21 Executed this 8th day of August, 2012, in San Francisco, California. 22 23 s/ Dirk D. Larsen DIRK D. LARSEN 24 25 26 27 28 -7JOINT SUPPLEMENTAL CASE STATUS REPORT AND REQUEST FOR CONTINUANCE OF CASE MANAGEMENT CONFERENCE; [PROPOSED] ORDER J:\1752\SF0208\Pleadings\JT CASE STATUS STMT 081012.doc Case No. C09-00901 EMC

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