Perkins v. Contra Costa County Sheriff's Department J-Team

Filing 69

ORDER REFERRING CASE TO FEDERAL PRO BONO PROJECT AND APPOINTING COUNSEL FOR INITIAL FORTY-FIVE DAY PERIOD. Signed by Judge Claudia Wilken on 10/23/09. (scc, COURT STAFF) (Filed on 10/23/2009)

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IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA REGGIE PERKINS, Plaintiff, No. C 07-02013 CW (PR) ORDER REFERRING CASE TO FEDERAL PRO BONO PROJECT AND APPOINTING COUNSEL FOR INITIAL FORTY-FIVE DAY PERIOD

CONTRA COSTA COUNTY SHERIFF'S DEPARTMENT J-TEAM, et al., Defendants. /

The Court having determined that it would be beneficial to have counsel assist Plaintiff in this matter and having located volunteer counsel willing to be appointed to represent Plaintiff for an initial forty-five day period, IT IS HEREBY ORDERED that Plaintiff's excessive force claim against Defendants Malone, Fuller, Renaud and Moore shall be referred to the Court's Federal Pro Bono Project, and that Jon B. Streeter, Esq. (SBN 101970), Asim M. Bhansali, Esq. (SBN 194925), and Paven Malhotra, Esq. (SBN 258429) of Keker & Van Nest LLP, are appointed as counsel for Plaintiff in this matter for an initial forty-five day period pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 1915(e)(1) and the Court's Federal Pro Bono Project guidelines. The Clerk of the Court shall send a copy of this Order to Mr. Streeter at Keker & Van Nest LLP, 710 Sansome Street, San Francisco, California 94111. The Clerk of the Court shall also send a copy of

this Order to Plaintiff, and to Defendants' counsel. Trial is currently set for December 14, 2009, and the final pre-trial conference is set for November 17, 2009 at 2:00 p.m. in Courtroom 2, Fourth Floor, 1301 Clay Street, Oakland, California.

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This action shall be stayed for forty-five (45) days from the date of this Order. No later than seven (7) days after the

forty-five day period, Mr. Streeter shall inform the Court in writing if he and the two other attorneys named above will be accepting appointment. If they accept appointment, they will be

appointed as counsel for Plaintiff in this matter until further order of the Court. If they wish to move for a continuance of the

trial to June, 2010, it will be granted. IT IS SO ORDERED.

DATED: 10/23/09

CLAUDIA WILKEN United States District Judge

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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

Case Number: CV07-02013 CW CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE

CONTRA COSTA COUNTY et al, Defendant. /

I, the undersigned, hereby certify that I am an employee in the Office of the Clerk, U.S. District Court, Northern District of California. That on October 23, 2009, I SERVED a true and correct copy(ies) of the attached, by placing said copy(ies) in a postage paid envelope addressed to the person(s) hereinafter listed, by depositing said envelope in the U.S. Mail, or by placing said copy(ies) into an inter-office delivery receptacle located in the Clerk's office.

Timothy J. McDonough Deputy Attorney General 455 Golden Gate Avenue, Suite 11000 San Francisco, CA 94102 Jon Streeter Keker & Van Nest LLP 710 Sansome Street San Francisco, CA 94102 Dated: October 23, 2009 Richard W. Wieking, Clerk By: Sheilah Cahill, Deputy Clerk

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