Planned Parenthood Federation of America, Inc. et al v. Center for Medical Progress et al, No. 3:2016cv00236 - Document 23 (N.D. Cal. 2016)

Court Description: ORDER granting 20 STIPULATION to modify Case Management Order. Case Management Statement due by 3/22/2016. Case Management Conference continued to for 3/29/2016 02:00 PM in Courtroom 2, 17th Floor, San Francisco. Signed by Judge William H. Orrick on 02/08/2016. (jmdS, COURT STAFF) (Filed on 2/8/2016)

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Catherine W. Short, Esq.; SBN 117442 LIFE LEGAL DEFENSE FOUNDATION 2 Post Office Box 1313 Ojai, CA 93024-1313 3 Tel: (707) 337-6880 4 LLDFOjai@earthlink.net 1 5 Thomas Brejcha, pro hac vice Peter Breen, pro hac vice Thomas More Society 7 19 S. La Salle St., Ste. 603 Chicago, IL 60603 8 (312) 782-1680 9 tbrejcha@thomasmoresociety.org 6 10 Attorneys for Defendant 11 12 DAVID DALEIDEN (Additional counsel listed on signature page.) UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT, NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 13 14 ) 15 PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA, INC., et al., 16 17 Plaintiffs, vs. 18 19 CENTER FOR MEDICAL PROGRESS, et al., 20 Defendants. 21 22 ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) Case No. 16-cv-00236 (WHO) Judge William H. Orrick, III JOINT STIPULATION FOR RELIEF FROM AMENDED CASE MANAGEMENT ORDER CMC Date: February 16, 2016 Time: 2:00 p.m. 23 24 25 26 27 28 JOINT STIPULATION FOR RELIEF FROM CMC – 16-cv-00236 (WHO) Pursuant to Local Rules 7-12 and 16-2(a & d), Defendants David Daleiden, Troy Newman 1 2 and Gerardo Adrian Lopez1 and Plaintiffs Planned Parenthood Federation Of America, Inc.; 3 Plaintiff Planned Parenthood: Shasta-Diablo, Inc. dba Planned Parenthood Northern California; 4 Planned Parenthood Mar Monte, Inc.; Planned Parenthood Of The Pacific Southwest; Planned 5 Parenthood Los Angeles; Planned Parenthood/Orange And San Bernardino Counties, Inc.; Planned 6 Parenthood Of Santa Barbara, Ventura And San Luis Obispo Counties, Inc.; Planned Parenthood 7 Pasadena And San Gabriel Valley, Inc. (collectively “PP Plaintiffs”) file this stipulation for relief 8 from the Case Management Order entered on January 26, 2016 (Doc. 12) and request that the case 9 management conference (“CMC”) be set again for March 29, 2016, or as soon thereafter as meets 10 this Court’s schedule. 11 Defendants and PP Plaintiffs state in support thereof as follows: 12 WHEREAS, PP Plaintiffs filed this lawsuit on January 14, 2016 (Doc. 1). The complaint 13 names the following Defendants: Center for Medical Progress, BioMax Procurement Services, 14 LLC, David Daleiden, Troy Newman, Albin Rhomberg, Phillip S. Cronin, Sandra Susan Merritt, 15 and Gerardo Adrian Lopez; WHEREAS, on January 22, 2016, the Court found that this case was related with another 16 17 case pending before it, namely National Abortion Federation v. Center for Medical Progress, 1518 cv-03522-WHO (the “NAF case”) (NAF case, Doc. 339); WHEREAS, on January 26, 2016, this Court issued a CMC Order scheduling a CMC for 19 20 February 16, 2016, at 2:00 p.m. (Doc. 12); WHEREAS, lead counsel for Plaintiffs has a pre-scheduled international trip from February 21 22 8 to February 19 and therefore asked certain defense counsel to stipulate to move the date of the 23 CMC to the following week in February; 24 25 1 The remaining named Defendants are not in a position to join this stipulation as waiver of service of process has not yet been effected on them and/or they have not yet retained counsel or local 26 counsel as explained infra, but the term Defendants will be used collectively in this stipulation 27 since any change in the CMC will impact them. 28 1 JOINT STIPULATION FOR RELIEF FROM CMC – 16-cv-00236 (WHO) 1 WHEREAS, those counsel agreed and indicated that they wished for a further extension 2 beyond February 23, to allow sufficient time for all defendants to secure representation and prepare 3 a joint case management statement in order to participate meaningfully in a CMC that best respects 4 the Court’s time and resources; 5 WHEREAS, the Court’s calendar indicates that the Court is unavailable on March 15 and 6 lead counsel for Ms. Merritt has a conflict on March 22, 2016; 7 WHEREAS, Defendants and Plaintiffs have therefore agreed that the CMC should be held 8 on March 29, 2016, or as soon thereafter as the Court’s schedule shall permit,; 9 WHEREAS, it is more than ten days before the CMC date, and this stipulation to 10 reschedule the CMC is timely filed pursuant to this Court’s CMC order (Doc. 12, ¶ 1.d.); 11 WHEREAS, there is good cause for rescheduling the case management conference date; 12 NOW THEREFORE, IT IS AGREED AND STIPULATED by and between PP Plaintiffs 13 and Defendants, subject to the Court’s approval, that the CMC shall be rescheduled to March 29, 14 2016, or as soon thereafter as the Court’s schedule shall permit, and that the Court will issue a new 15 case management order with compliance dates based on the date of the new case management 16 conference. 17 18 Respectfully submitted, 19 Catherine W. Short, Esq.; SBN 117442 20 LIFE LEGAL DEFENSE FOUNDATION Post Office Box 1313 21 Ojai, California 93024-1313 Tel: (707) 337-6880 22 LLDFOjai@earthlink.net /s/ Catherine Short Counsel for Defendant David Daleiden 23 Thomas Brejcha, pro hac vice 24 Peter Breen, pro hac vice THOMAS MORE SOCIETY 25 19 S. La Salle St., Ste. 603 Chicago, IL 60603 26 Tel: (312) 782-1680 Facsimile: (312) 782-1887 27 tbrejcha@thomasmoresociety.org 28 pbreen@thomasmoresociety.org 2 JOINT STIPULATION FOR RELIEF FROM CMC – 16-cv-00236 (WHO) ckonczal@thomasmoresociety.org 1 Attorneys for Defendant David Daleiden 2 /s/ Vladimir F. Kozina 3 Vladimir F. Kozina (CA Bar 95422) MAYALL HURLEY, P.C. Counsel for Defendant 4 2453 Grand Canal Blvd. Troy Newman Stockton, CA 95207 5 Tel: (209) 477-3833 Facsimile: (209) 473-4818 6 vkozina@mayallaw.com 7 Edward L. White III, pro hac vice (application forthcoming) 8 Erik M. Zimmerman, pro hac vice (application forthcoming) AMERICAN CENTER FOR LAW & JUSTICE 9 3001 Plymouth Rd., Ste. 203 10 Ann Arbor, MI 48105 Tel: (734) 680-8007 11 Facsimile: (734) 680-8006 ewhite@aclj.org 12 ezimmerman@aclj.org Attorneys for Defendant Troy Newman 13 14 Charles S. LiMandri (CA Bar No. 110841) FREEDOM OF CONSCIENCE DEFENSE FUND 15 P.O. Box 9520 Rancho Santa Fe, CA 92067 16 Tel: (858) 759-9948 Facsimile: (858) 759-9938 17 cslimandri@ConscienceDefense.org 18 Attorneys for Defendant Gerardo Adrian Lopez /s/ Charles S. LiMandri Counsel for Defendant Gerardo Adrian Lopez 19 Amy L. Bomse (No. 2188669) Sharon D. Mayo (No. 150469) 20 Lee Young You (No. 241658) ARNOLD & PORTER LLP 21 Three Embarcadero Center, 10th Floor 22 San Francisco, CA 94111-4024 /s/ Amy Bomse Counsel for Plaintiffs 23 Beth H. Parker (No. 104773) PLANNED PARENTHOOD AFFILIATES OF CALIFORNIA 24 551 Capitol Mall, Ste. 510 Sacramento, CA 95814-4581 25 26 Helene T. Krasnoff, pro hac vice (application forthcoming) PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA 27 11110 Vermont Ave., NW, Ste. 300 Washington, DC 20005 28 3 JOINT STIPULATION FOR RELIEF FROM CMC – 16-cv-00236 (WHO) 1 Attorneys for Plaintiffs 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 4 JOINT STIPULATION FOR RELIEF FROM CMC – 16-cv-00236 (WHO) ATTESTATION PURSUANT TO CIVIL L.R. 5.1(i)(3) 1 2 As the filer of this document, I attest that concurrence in the filing was obtained from the 3 other signatories. 4 /s/ Catherine Short Counsel for Defendant David Daleiden 5 6 ORDER 7 8 9 10 11 12 PURSUANT TO STIPULATION, the Case Management Conference is continued until March 29, 2016 at 2:00 p.m. All deadlines that are associated with the date of the CMC pursuant to Federal Rules of Civil Procedure 16 and 26, and the Local Rules and the Standing Orders of this Court, are likewise continued. IT IS SO ORDERED. 13 14 15 16 Dated: February 8, 2016 ___________________________ Honorable William H. Orrick, III United States District Court 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 5 JOINT STIPULATION FOR RELIEF FROM CMC – 16-cv-00236 (WHO)

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