Sonoma County Association of Retired Employees v. Sonoma County

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ORDER re 6 AMENDED Stipulation TO EXTEND TIME FOR FILING RESPONSIVE PLEADING. Signed by Judge Claudia Wilken on 10/19/09. (CW, COURT STAFF) (Filed on 10/19/2009)

1 STEVEN M. WOODSIDE #58684 County Counsel 2 BRUCE D. GOLDSTEIN, #135970 Assistant County Counsel 3 GREGORY T. DION #149710 Chief Deputy County Counsel 4 County of Sonoma 575 Administration Dr., Rm. 105A 5 Santa Rosa, California 95403-2815 Telephone: [phone] Fax: [phone] Attorneys for Defendant The County of Sonoma 8 9 10 11 12 SONOMA COUNTY ASSOCIATION OF RETIRED EMPLOYEES, 13 Plaintiff, 14 v. 15 SONOMA COUNTY, 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 Defendant. / No. CV 09 4432 CW STIPULATION TO EXTEND TIME FOR FILING RESPONSIVE PLEADING; ORDER [No Hearing Required] UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

Defendant the County of Sonoma ("County") and Plaintiff the Sonoma County Association of Retired Employees ("SCARE"), through their respective counsel of record, hereby agree and stipulate as follows. 1. SCARE filed and served its complaint in this action on September 22, 2009,

seeking declaratory and injunctive relief against the County with respect to retiree health benefits. 2. The County is in the process of engaging outside counsel to assist it in this

litigation, and requires additional time to do so and prepare a response to the complaint, beyond the time allotted by the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, Rule 12. 3. Accordingly, the parties have agreed that the County shall have through and

including November 10, 2009, in which to file its responsive pleading herein. If the County
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1 files a motion to dismiss or other motion instead of an answer to the complaint, and assuming 2 that the motion is heard on the next available hearing date on the Court's calendar (which 3 currently appears to be December 18, 2009), the parties stipulate that any opposition brief to 4 the motion shall be due on or before Tuesday, November 24, 2009, and any reply brief shall 5 be due on or before Friday, December 4, 2009. If the next available hearing date is later than 6 December 18, 2009, the parties agree to meet and confer regarding a briefing schedule and to 7 submit a new briefing schedule to the Court for consideration. 8 4. Providing this extension of time to file a responsive pleading (which amounts

9 to a 28 day extension) beyond the time allotted under the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure 10 will not affect any of the dates set pursuant to the Order Setting Initial Case Management 11 Conference and ADR Deadlines, previously entered herein. 12 IT IS SO STIPULATED.
STEVEN M. WOODSIDE, COUNTY COUNSEL COUNTY OF SONOMA

13 Dated: October 8, 2009 14 15 16 17 18 Dated: October 8, 2009 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 Dated: October 19, 2009 28
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By: ____/s/ Gregory T. Dion _____________________ GREGORY T. DION Attorneys for Defendant the County of Sonoma

LEWIS, FEINBERG, LEE, RENAKER & JACKSON

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/s/ Jeffrey Lewis JEFFREY LEWIS Attorneys for Plaintiff the Sonoma County Association of Retired Employees
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PURSUANT TO THE FOREGOING STIPULATION, IT IS SO ORDERED.

_______________________________ HONORABLE CLAUDIA WILKEN UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

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ELECTRONIC CASE FILING ATTESTATION I, Gregory T. Dion, am the ECF User whose identification and password are being used to

3 file this STIPULATION TO EXTEND TIME FOR FILING RESPONSIVE PLEADING; 4 [PROPOSED] ORDER on behalf of all parties pursuant to Civil Local Rules 7-11. In 5 compliance with General Order No. 45(X)(B), I hereby attest that the concurrence in the 6 filing of this document has been obtained from its signatories. 7 Dated: October 8, 2009 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 By: /s/ Gregory T. Dion Gregory T. Dion Deputy County Counsel Sonoma County

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