Bay Area Painters & Tapers Pension Trust Fund et al v. Advanced Interior Systems, Inc. et al

Filing 27

ORDER ON PLAINTIFFS' REQUEST TO APPEAR TELEPHONICALLY. All parties shall appear telephonically at the Case Management Conference on November 12, 2010 at 10:30 a.m. Signed by Judge Maxine M. Chesney. (mmclc2, COURT STAFF) (Filed on 11/10/2010)

1 Muriel B. Kaplan, Esq. (SBN 124607) Michele R. Stafford, Esq. (SBN 172509) 2 SALTZMAN & JOHNSON LAW CORPORATION 44 Montgomery Street, Suite 2110 3 San Francisco, CA 94104 [phone] 4 [phone]­ Facsimile [e-mail] 5 [e-mail] 6 Attorneys for Plaintiffs 7 8 9 10 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA Case No.: C10-1305 MMC PLAINTIFFS' REQUEST TO APPEAR TELEPHONICALLY; [PROPOSED] ORDER THEREON Date: Time: Ctrm: Judge: November 12, 2010 10:30 a.m. 7, 19th Floor The Honorable Maxine M. Chesney

11 BAY AREA PAINTERS AND TAPERS PENSION TRUST FUND, et al. 12 Plaintiffs, 13 v. 14 ADVANCED INTERIOR SYSTEMS, INC., a California Corporation; and ROBERT LEE 15 BROWN, an Individual, 16 17 18 19 20 21 Defendants.

Plaintiffs herein respectfully request that they be permitted to appear telephonically at the Case Management Conference currently on calendar for November 12, 2010. 1. As stated in the Joint Case Management Conference Statement filed concurrently

22 with the Court on November 5, 2010: 23 a. Plaintiffs and Defendants have served a FRCP Rule 26(a)(1) disclosure,

24 describing known potential witnesses and categories of records, and their locations. Plaintiffs 25 have responded to Defendants' request for disclosed documents. Defendants have submitted the 26 calculations needed for Plaintiff to complete the audit. 27 /// 28 ///
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Defendants have now compiled and submitted to Plaintiff's counsel the

2 travel allowance calculations, which were the subject of this action, following the procedure 3 outlined in the Bargaining Agreement. 4 c. The parties have agreed to court-supervised mediation, and the Court has so

5 ordered. Because the travel calculations are an important factor in establishing the amount of 6 damages Plaintiffs to which Plaintiffs may be entitled, and those calculations have only recently 7 been completed and submitted to Plaintiffs for analysis, the parties have not yet scheduled 8 mediation. 9 2. In order to minimize additional attorneys' fees and costs, and in the interest of

10 conserving costs as well as the Court's time and resources, Plaintiffs respectfully request that they 11 be permitted to appear telephonically at the November 12, 2010 Case Management Conference. 12 I declare under penalty of perjury that I am the attorney for the Plaintiffs in the above

13 entitled action, and that the foregoing is true of my own knowledge. 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 IT IS SO ORDERED. Executed this 5th day of November, 2010, at San Francisco, California. SALTZMAN & JOHNSON LAW CORPORATION By: /S/Muriel B. Kaplan Muriel B. Kaplan Attorneys for Plaintiffs

Based on the foregoing, and GOOD CAUSE APPEARING, it is hereby ORDERED that 21 the request of Muriell parties shall counsel for Plaintiffs, to appear telephonically at the Case al B. Kaplan, Management Conference on November 12, 2010 at 10:30 a.m. is GRANTED. The Court shall 22 initiate the phone contact to Plaintiffs' counsel at 510-482-3063. 23 November 10, 2010 24 Date: ____________________ 25 26 27 28
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_________________________________________________ THE HONORABLE MAXINE M. CHESNEY UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT JUDGE