Free Declaration in Support - District Court of California - California

Case 4:07-cv-04446-SBA

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DENNIS J. HERRERA, State Bar #139669 City Attorney WAYNE SNODGRASS, State Bar #148137 SHERRI SOKELAND KAISER, State Bar #197986 Deputy City Attorneys City Hall, Room 234 1 Dr. Carlton B. Goodlett Place San Francisco, California 94102-4682 Telephone: (415) 554-4691 Facsimile: (415) 554-4747 E-Mail: [email protected] Attorneys for Defendant THE SAN FRANCISCO RENT STABILIZATION AND ARBITRATION BOARD

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA VANCE S. ELLIOTT, Plaintiff, vs. THE SAN FRANCISCO RENT STABILIZATION AND ARBITRATION BOARD, Defendant. Case No. CV 07-4446 SBA DECLARATION OF SHERRI SOKELAND KAISER IN SUPPORT OF DEFENDANT'S SEPARATE CASE MANAGEMENT STATEMENT

I, SHERRI SOKELAND KAISER, declare as follows: 1. I am a Deputy City Attorney for the City and County of San Francisco. I am

counsel of record for the San Francisco Rent Stabilization and Arbitration Board in this case. 2. I am aware of this Court's requirement that all case management statements be

submitted jointly. Despite my best efforts, that was not possible in this case. 3. I notified plaintiff Vance Elliott in writing of the need to meet and confer in

order to submit a joint case management conference statement by December 21, 2007. I also informed him that my vacation schedule required me to complete the meet and confer process by December 19. Because he has refused to meet with me at my office and does not have a telephone, I included a proposed joint statement with room for him to indicate his views and n:\govlit\li2007\080353\00456175.doc KAISER DECLARATION 1 CASE NO. CV 07-4446 SBA

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return the document. A true and correct copy of a December 5, 2007 letter from me to Mr. Elliott, with attachments, is attached hereto as Exhibit A. 4. statement. I declare under penalty of perjury under the laws of the United States that the foregoing statements are true and correct. Executed this December 19, 2007 in San Francisco, California. Mr. Elliott has not responded to my letter or the draft joint case management

/S/____________________________________ SHERRI SOKELAND KAISER

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KAISER DECLARATION CASE NO. CV 07-4446 SBA

PROOF OF SERVICE I, DIANA QUAN, declare as follows: I am a citizen of the United States, over the age of eighteen years and not a party to the above-entitled action. I am employed at the City Attorney's Office of San Francisco, City Hall, Room 234, 1 Dr. Carlton B. Goodlett Place, San Francisco, CA 94102. On December 20, 2007, I served the following document(s): DECLARATION OF SHERRI SOKELAND KAISER IN SUPPORT OF DEFENDANT'S SEPARATE CASE MANAGEMENT STATEMENT on the following persons at the locations specified: VANCE S. ELLIOTT The Baldwin House 74 Sixth Street, #227 San Francisco, CA 94103-1608 in the manner indicated below: BY UNITED STATES MAIL: Following ordinary business practices, I sealed true and correct copies of the above documents in addressed envelope(s) and placed them at my workplace for collection and mailing with the United States Postal Service. I am readily familiar with the practices of the San Francisco City Attorney's Office for collecting and processing mail. In the ordinary course of business, the sealed envelope(s) that I placed for collection would be deposited, postage prepaid, with the United States Postal Service that same day. BY PERSONAL SERVICE: I sealed true and correct copies of the above documents in addressed envelope(s) and caused such envelope(s) to be delivered by hand at the above locations by a professional messenger service. BY OVERNIGHT DELIVERY: I sealed true and correct copies of the above documents in addressed envelope(s) and placed them at my workplace for collection and delivery by overnight courier service. I am readily familiar with the practices of the San Francisco City Attorney's Office for sending overnight deliveries. In the ordinary course of business, the sealed envelope(s) that I placed for collection would be collected by a courier the same day. BY FACSIMILE: Based on a written agreement of the parties to accept service by fax, I transmitted true and correct copies of the above document(s) via a facsimile machine at telephone number (415) 554-4747 to the persons and the fax numbers listed above. The fax transmission was reported as complete and without error. I declare under penalty of perjury pursuant to the laws of the State of California that the foregoing is true and correct. Executed December 20, 2007, at San Francisco, California.

/S/ DIANA QUAN

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