Cotterill
Cotterill v. City and County of San Francisco
Opinion
Trial Court Opinion
UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 9 CHERYL COTTERILL, Case No. 08-cv-02295-JSW
Plaintiffs,
ORDER DENYING MOTION TO
v. VACATE JUDGMENT AND DENYING
MOTION TO DISQUALIFY
CITY AND COUNTY OF SAN FRANCISCO, et al., Re: Dkt. Nos. 377, 381 14 Defendants.
15 Now before the Court are two motions filed by Gregory M. Haynes (“Haynes”), attorney for the nominative plaintiff. Nine years after entry of judgment and seven years after the judgment and award was affirmed on appeal, Haynes seeks to vacate the judgment and to disqualify the undersigned. For the reasons stated herein, these motions are DENIED. BACKGROUND The factual background is familiar to the parties. Haynes represented Cheryl Cotterill (“Plaintiff”) in the underlying lawsuit for claims of civil rights violations by The Regents of the University of California (“Regents”), the City and County of San Francisco (the “City”), and multiple individuals who were employees of…