McCoy v. City of Vallejo ( 2021 )

City Attorney, State Bar No. 140001 2 RANDY J. RISNER Chief Assistant City Attorney, State Bar No. 172552 3 KATELYN M. KNIGHT Assistant City Attorney, State Bar No. 264573 4 CITY OF VALLEJO, City Hall 555 Santa Clara Street 5 Vallejo, California 94590 Telephone: (707) 648-4545 6 Facsimile: (707) 648-4687 Email: katelyn.knight@cityofvallejo.net 7 MICHAEL G. COLANTUONO, State Bar No. 143551 8 MColantuono@chwlaw.us ANDREW C. RAWCLIFFE, State Bar No. 259224 9 ARawcliffe@chwlaw.us NIKHIL S. DAMLE, State Bar No. 297350 10 NDamle@chwlaw.us COLANTUONO, HIGHSMITH & WHATLEY, PC 11 420 Sierra College Drive, Suite 140 Grass Valley, California 95945-5091 12 Telephone: (530) 432-7357 Facsimile: (530) 432-7356 13 Attorneys for Defendants 14 CITY OF VALLEJO, ANDREW BIDOU, GREG NYHOFF, MARK THOMPSON, BRYAN GLICK, ANTHONY 15 ROMERO-CANO, COLIN EATON, JORDON PATZER, STEVEN DARDEN, AND KYLE WYLIE 16 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 17 EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 18 19 KORI MCCOY, etc., et al., CASE NO.: 2:19-cv-01191-JAM-CKD 20 Plaintiffs, STIPULATION ON DISMISSAL OF 21 v. PLAINTIFFS’ INDIVIDUAL CAPACITY BANE ACT CLAIMS UNDER THE FIFTH 22 CITY OF VALLEJO, etc., et al., CAUSE OF ACTION 23 Complaint Filed: June 27, 2019 Defendants. SAC Filed: March 26, 2021 24 Trial Date: August 29, 2022 25 26 27 28 2 McCoy, Shawnmell Mitchell, Marquita McCoy, and Barbara Dorsey (“Plaintiffs”) and Defendants 3 City of Vallejo, Andrew Bidou, Mark Thompson, Bryan Glick, Anthony Romero-Cano, Colin Eaton, 4 Jordon Patzer, Steven Darden, Kyle Wylie and Ryan McMahon (“Defendants”1), referred to 5 collectively as the “Parties,” by and through their designated counsel, that: 6 WHEREAS, on September 9, 2021, the Parties held a meet and confer in compliance with 7 section III of the Order re Filing Requirements, ECF No. 4-2, in anticipation of Defendants moving 8 under Rule 12(c) to dismiss various causes of action pleaded in Plaintiffs’ Second Amended 9 Complaint’s (“SAC”) for their failure to state a claim. 10 WHEREAS, the Parties agreed during that meet and confer that Plaintiffs Kori McCoy, Marc 11 McCoy, Louis McCoy, Shawnmell Mitchell, Marquita McCoy, and Barbara Dorsey cannot pursue 12 individual capacity claims under the California Civil Code section 52.1 (Bane Act). Bay Area Rapid 13 Transit Dist. v. Superior Court, 38 Cal.App.4th 141, 144–145 (1995) (BART) 14 WHEREAS, the Parties agreed that Plaintiffs Kori McCoy, Marc McCoy, Louis McCoy, 15 Shawnmell Mitchell, and Barbara Dorsey2 would voluntarily dismiss with prejudice their Bane Act 16 claims (Cal. Civ. Code, § 52.1), which were brought in their individual capacity under the Fifth 17 Cause of Action in the SAC and will not further pursue this claim for money, damages or penalties 18 on their own behalf, except those sought as a successor-interest to decedent Willie McCoy. 19 NOW THEREFORE, the Parties, through their undersigned counsel below, hereby stipulate 20 and agree: 21 1. Plaintiffs Kori McCoy’s, Marc McCoy’s, Louis McCoy’s, Shawnmell Mitchell’s, and 22 Barbara Dorsey’s state law claims for Bane Act violations (Cal. Civ. Code, § 52.1), which 23 are brought in their individual capacity, under the Fifth Cause of Action in Plaintiffs’ 24 Second Amended Complaint are dismissed with prejudice. 25 26 27 1 Defendant Ryan McMahon is represented separately by the law firm Angelo, Killday and Kilduff. 28 2 Plaintiff Marquita McCoy’s Bane Act claim was previously dismissed by stipulation for failure to file a timely government claim for damages. See Dkt. No. 97. 2 /s/ Andrew C. Rawcliffe 3 ANDREW C. RAWCLIFFE Attorneys for Defendants 4 City of Vallejo, Andrew Bidou, Greg Nyhoff, Mark Thompson, Bryan Glick, Anthony 5 Romero-Cano, Colin Eaton, Jordon Patzer, Steven Darden, and Kyle Wylie 6 7 8 DATED: November 1, 2021 9 /s/ Derick E. Konz 10 DERICK E. KONZ Attorneys for Defendant Ryan McMahon 11 12 13 DATED: November 1, 2021 14 /s/ Patrick M. Buelna 15 PATRICK M. BUELNA 16 Attorneys for Plaintiffs 17 18 IT IS SO ORDERED. 19 20 DATED: November 1, 2021 /s/ John A. Mendez 21 THE HONORABLE JOHN A. MENDEZ UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT JUDGE 22 23 24 25 26 27 28