Watts v. Allstate Indemnity Company et al

Filing 132

ORDER signed by Senior Judge Lawrence K. Karlton on 06/11/10 ORDERING that a Status Conference is SET for 07/26/10 at 02:00 PM in Courtroom 4 (LKK) before Senior Judge Lawrence K. Karlton. Status reports due 14 days prior. (Benson, A.)

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 Plaintiff, 13 v. 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 ALLSTATE INDEMNITY CO., an Illinois corporation, et al., Defendants. / On September 4, 2009, plaintiffs filed a motion seeking modification of the scheduling order in the above-captioned matter. Plaintiffs argued that because defendants had refused to respond to discovery requests relating to class certification, plaintiffs would be unable to file a motion for class certification at the time required by the scheduling order as it stood at that time. After a status conference held on September 14, 2009, the court vacated the existing scheduling order. Order filed Sept. 16, 2009 (Dkt. No. 130). That order provided that: 1 ORDER ROBERT WATTS, on behalf of himself individually and all others similarly situated, NO. CIV. S-08-1877 LKK/GGH UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

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The parties SHALL proceed with discovery related to class certification, and SHALL re-notice the motions to compel that have been filed with the magistrate and denied without prejudice to refiling pending this court's resolution of the motion to modify the scheduling order, Doc. Nos. 83, 99, and 114. Each party SHALL notify this court once those motions have been resolved. Nine months have elapsed, and the docket indicates that these motions to compel have not been refiled. indicates no other activity in this case. Accordingly, the court SETS a status conference for July 26, 2010 at 2:00 p.m. The parties SHALL file status reports no later Indeed, the docket

than fourteen (14) days before the status conference. IT IS SO ORDERED. DATED: June 11, 2010.

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