Tennison v. City & County of San Francisco et al

Filing 562

ORDER re 561 granting STIPULATION JOINTLY REQUESTING REFERRAL OF MATTER FOR MEDIATION BEFORE THE HONORABLE JOSEPH C. SPERO. ORDER REFERRING CASE to Magistrate Judge Joseph S. Spero for Settlement. Signed by Judge Claudia Wilken on 1/7/09. (scc, COURT STAFF) (Filed on 1/7/2009)

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KEKER & VAN NEST, LLP ELLIOT R. PETERS - #158708 DANIEL PURCELL - #191424 STEVEN P. RAGLAND - #221076 710 Sansome Street San Francisco, CA 94111-1704 Telephone: [phone] Facsimile: [phone] [e-mail] [e-mail] [e-mail] ETHAN A. BALOGH - #172224 Coleman & Balogh LLP 225 Bush Street, Suite 1600 San Francisco, CA 94104 Telephone: [phone] Facsimile: [phone] [e-mail] Attorneys for Plaintiff JOHN TENNISON UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

JOHN TENNISON, Plaintiff, v. CITY AND COUNTY OF SAN FRANCISCO; SAN FRANCISCO POLICE DEPARTMENT; PRENTICE EARL SANDERS; NAPOLEON HENDRIX; and GEORGE BUTTERWORTH, Defendants.

Case No. C 04-00574 CW Consolidated with Case No. C 04-01643 CW STIPULATION AND ORDER JOINTLY REQUESTING REFERRAL OF MATTER FOR MEDIATION BEFORE THE HONORABLE JOSEPH C. SPERO Judge: Crtrm: Hon. Claudia Wilken 2

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STIPULATION AND [PROPOSED] ORDER JOINTLY REQUESTING REFERRAL OF MATTER FOR MEDIATION BEFORE THE HONORABLE JOSEPH C. SPERO Case No. C 04-00574 CW Consolidated with Case No. C 04-01643 CW

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WHEREAS, Plaintiffs John J. Tennison and Antoine Goff and Defendants City and County of San Francisco, Prentice Sanders and Napoleon Hendrix (jointly hereafter, "the Parties") seek to mediate this dispute, WHEREAS, some of these Parties discussed prior to the Court's December 16, 2008 mediating this dispute with a private mediator, WHEREAS, subsequent to that December 16 hearing, all of the parties considered the question of mediation and determined that mediating this matter through the Court's process is preferable, WHEREAS, the Parties seek to mediate this dispute with the assistance of Magistrate Judge Joseph C. Spero, and WHEREAS, pursuant to the joint request of the parties, Magistrate Judge Spero has reserved February 5, 2009 for the mediation of this dispute, subject to this Court's determination on the question of referring this mediation to his Honor, IT IS HEREBY STIPULATED, AGREED, AND REQUESTED that the Court refer this matter for mediation before the Honorable Joseph C. Spero, United States Magistrate Judge. Dated: January 6, 2009 KEKER & VAN NEST, LLP COLEMAN & BALOGH LLP By: /s/ Steven P. Ragland ________________ STEVEN P. RAGLAND Attorneys for Plaintiff JOHN TENNISON Dated: January 6, 2009 MOSCONE, EMBLIDGE & QUADRA

By: /s/ James A. Quadra _________________ JAMES A. QUADRA Attorneys for Defendants PRENTICE EARL SANDERS and NAPOLEON HENDRIX

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Dated: January ___, 2009

THE SCOTT LAW FIRM By: /s/ John Houston Scott _______________ JOHN HOUSTON SCOTT Attorneys for Plaintiff ANTOINE GOFF

Dated: January ___, 2009

OFFICE OF THE CITY ATTORNEY By: /s/ Scott Wiener ____________________ SCOTT WIENER Attorneys for Defendants CITY AND COUNTY OF SAN FRANCISCO and GEORGE BUTTERWORTH

ORDER Based on the foregoing, and for good cause shown, IT IS HEREBY ORDERED that this matter is referred for mediation before the Honorable Joseph C. Spero, United States Magistrate Judge. Dated: January 7, 2009 THE HONORABLE CLAUDIA WILKEN UNITED STATES DISTRICT JUDGE

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