Bennett et al v. State Farm General Insurance Company

Filing 15

ORDER signed by Judge Garland E. Burrell, Jr on 4/14/15 re 14 ORDERING Status Conference CONTINUED to 5/18/2015 at 09:00 AM in Courtroom 10 (GEB) before Judge Garland E. Burrell Jr. (Meuleman, A)

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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

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EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

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HAROLD and DOROTHY BENNETT,

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Plaintiffs,

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No.

1:14-cv-01377-GEB-JLT

ORDER CONTINUING STATUS
(PRETRIAL SCHEDULING) CONFERENCE

v.
STATE FARM GENERAL INSURANCE
COMPANY, and DOES 1 through
100, inclusive,

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Defendants.

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Plaintiffs state in the Joint Status Report filed April

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6,

2015,

as

follows:

“Plaintiffs[]

are

currently

assessing

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whether certain developments necessitate amending the complaint.

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Plaintiff Dorothy Bennett passed away in September 2014, and as

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discussed further in Section L below, a conservator of the person

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and estate has been appointed for plaintiff Harold Bennett.” (JSR

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2:8-11, ECF No. 13.) Defendant State Farm responds in the JSR

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that it “anticipates filing a motion for substitution of parties

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in the event Plaintiffs do not do so.” (Id. at 2:19-20.)
These representations reveal this case is not ready to

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be

scheduled.

Therefore,

the

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Conference scheduled for hearing on April 20, 2015, is continued

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to May 18, 2015, at 9:00 a.m. A further joint status report shall

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be filed no later than fourteen (14) days prior to the Status

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Conference, in which the parties shall address any procedures
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Status

(Pretrial

Scheduling)

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they intend to take, and the timing thereof, to replace the named

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Plaintiffs

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Plaintiff’s conservatorship.

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in

light

of

one

Plaintiff’s

IT IS SO ORDERED.
Dated:

April 14, 2015

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death

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