Don Juan Foods, Inc. v. AmGUARD Insurance Company, et al.

Filing 33

THIRD STIPULATION and ORDER TO MODIFY SCHEDULING ORDER TO EXTEND THE LITIGATION DEADLINES. Non-Expert Discovery by 12/13/2021; Designation of Opening Experts with Reports by 11/12/2021; Designation of Rebuttal Experts with Reports by 11/22/2021; Expert Discovery Cutoff by 2/11/2022; Non-Dispositive Motions by 2/25/2022; Dispositive Motions by 2/25/2022. Pretrial Conference set for 6/7/2022 at 08:15 AM in Courtroom 4. Order signed by Magistrate Judge Sheila K. Oberto on 6/2/2021. (Apodaca, P)

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1 2 3 4 5 6 7 MATTHEW S. FOY (SBN: 187238) mfoy@grsm.com JENNIFER N. WAHLGREN (SBN: 249556) jwahlgren@grsm.com GORDON REES SCULLY MANSUKHANI, LLP 275 Battery Street, Suite 2000 San Francisco, CA 94111 Telephone: (415) 875-3174 Facsimile: (415) 986-8054 Attorneys for Defendants AMGUARD INSURANCE COMPANY and WESTGUARD INSURANCE COMPANY 8 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 9 EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA Gordon Rees Scully Mansukhani, LLP 275 Battery Street, Suite 2000 San Francisco, CA 94111 10 11 12 DON JUAN FOODS, INC., a California Corporation, 13 14 Plaintiff, Case No. 1:20-cv-00499-NONE-SKO THIRD STIPULATION TO EXTEND THE LITIGATION DEADLINES; ORDER v. (Doc. 32) 15 16 AMGUARD INSURANCE COMPANY, a Pennsylvania Corporation; WESTGUARD INSURANCE COMPANY, a Pennsylvania Corporation; and DOES 1-20 inclusive, Accompanying Document: Declaration of Mathew S. Foy 17 Defendants. 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 -1THIRD STIPULATION TO EXTEND LITIGATION DEADLINES; ORDER 1 Plaintiff Don Juan Foods, Inc. (“Plaintiff”) and Defendants AmGUARD Insurance 2 Company and WestGUARD Insurance Company (“Defendants”) (collectively “the Parties”) 3 stipulate as follows: 4 WHEREAS, on July 7, 2020, this Court issued a Scheduling Order setting forth deadlines. 5 WHEREAS, on November 3, 2020, this Court granted the Parties’ stipulation to extend the 6 deadlines for expert discovery. 7 8 WHEREAS, on December 28, 2020, the Parties filed a Stipulation to Modify Scheduling Order to Extend the Litigation Deadlines. WHEREAS, on January 18, 2021, this Court granted the Parties’ Stipulation of December 9 Gordon Rees Scully Mansukhani, LLP 275 Battery Street, Suite 2000 San Francisco, CA 94111 10 28, 2020. 11 WHEREAS, on March 4, 2021, the Parties filed a Second Stipulation to Modify Scheduling 12 Order to Extend the Litigation Deadlines to allow time to complete mediation and to account for 13 potential delays in discovery due to the COVID-19 pandemic. WHEREAS, on March 8, 2021, this Court granted the Parties’ Stipulation of March 4, 14 15 2021. 16 WHEREAS, the Parties participated in mediation on May 18, 2021. While the mediation 17 was not successful, the Parties have agreed that it is in their best interest to permit further 18 investigation of certain claims in the litigation, and to pursue a further mediation after completion 19 of such investigation. (Declaration of Mathew S. Foy (“Foy Decl.”) at ¶ 2.) 20 WHEREAS, the Parties have met and conferred and agree that in order to allow time to 21 complete investigation of certain claims and to participate in a further mediation, and in the 22 interests of justice and to promote judicial economy, that the litigation deadlines in this action 23 should be further continued. (Foy Decl. at ¶ 3.) 24 25 26 27 WHEREAS, based on the foregoing, the Parties seek to continue the current litigation deadlines in this action as follows: EVENT CURRENT DEADLINE PROPOSED DEADLINE Non-Expert Discovery August 16, 2021 December 13, 2021 28 -2THIRD STIPULATION TO EXTEND LITIGATION DEADLINES; ORDER 1 2 3 4 5 6 EVENT CURRENT DEADLINE PROPOSED DEADLINE Designation of Opening Experts July 12, 2021 with Reports November 12, 2021 Designation of Rebuttal Experts with Reports July 26, 2021 November 22, 2021 Expert Discovery Cutoff October 11, 2021 February 11, 2022 Non-Dispositive Motion Filing October 25, 2021 February 25, 2022 7 Non-Dispositive Motion Hearing December 1, 2021 April 1, 2022 8 Dispositive Motion Filing October 25, 2021 February 25, 2022 9 Dispositive Motion Hearing According to Local Rules According to Local Rules Pre-Trial Conference February 2, 2022 June 2, 2022 Gordon Rees Scully Mansukhani, LLP 275 Battery Street, Suite 2000 San Francisco, CA 94111 10 11 12 IT IS SO STIPULATED. 13 14 Dated: June 1, 2021 GORDON REES SCULLY MANSUKHANI, LLP 15 By /s/ Mathew S. Foy Matthew S. Foy Jennifer N. Wahlgren Attorneys for Defendants AMGUARD INSURANCE COMPANY and WESTGUARD INSURANCE COMPANY 16 17 18 19 20 Dated: June 1, 2021 MERLIN LAW GROUP, P.A. 21 22 23 24 By /s/ Courtney Abrams (as authorized on 6.1.21) Michael J. Ponzo Courtney Abrams Attorneys for Plaintiff DON JUAN FOODS, INC. 25 26 27 28 -3THIRD STIPULATION TO EXTEND LITIGATION DEADLINES; ORDER 1 ORDER 2 Pursuant to the foregoing Stipulation by the Parties (Doc. 32), and for good cause shown, 3 Fed. R. Civ. P. 16(b)(4), IT IS HEREBY ORDERED that the current litigation deadlines be 4 continued as follows: 5 6 EVENT CURRENT DEADLINE NEW DEADLINE 7 Non-Expert Discovery August 16, 2021 December 13, 2021 8 Designation of Opening Experts July 12, 2021 with Reports November 12, 2021 July 26, 2021 November 22, 2021 10 Designation of Rebuttal Experts with Reports 11 Expert Discovery Cutoff October 11, 2021 February 11, 2022 12 Non-Dispositive Motion Filing October 25, 2021 February 25, 2022 13 Non-Dispositive Motion Hearing December 1, 2021 April 6, 20221 14 Dispositive Motion Filing October 25, 2021 February 25, 2022 15 Dispositive Motion Hearing According to Local Rules According to Local Rules 16 Pre-Trial Conference February 2, 2022 June 7, 2022 at 8:15 a.m.2 Gordon Rees Scully Mansukhani, LLP 275 Battery Street, Suite 2000 San Francisco, CA 94111 9 17 18 IT IS SO ORDERED. 19 Dated: June 2, 2021 /s/ Sheila K. Oberto . UNITED STATES MAGISTRATE JUDGE 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 1 28 Magistrate Judge Sheila K. Oberto hears civil motions on Wednesdays at 9:30 a.m. The parties requested a new pre-trial conference date of June 2, 2022, but due to the press of business, the Court continues the pre-trial conference to June 7, 2022. 2 -4THIRD STIPULATION TO EXTEND LITIGATION DEADLINES; ORDER

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