Rast v. Metropolitan Life Insurance Company

Filing 20

ORDER signed by Magistrate Judge Kendall J. Newman on 5/12/2017 ORDERING that 18 Motion to Compel Discovery Responses is Reset to 6/1/2017 at 10:00 AM in Courtroom 25 (KJN) before Magistrate Judge Kendall J. Newman; the Joint Statement Re: Discovery Disagreement with accompanying Memorandum of Points and Authorities to be filed 7 days prior to the original hearing date shall be due based on the new hearing date of 6/1/2017. (Reader, L)

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1 2 3 4 5 6 Lee S. Harris, SBN 76699 lharris@g3mh.com Adrian Hern, SBN 202958 ahern@g3mh.com GOLDSTEIN, GELLMAN, MELBOSTAD, HARRIS & MCSPARRAN, LLP 1388 Sutter Street, Suite 1000 San Francisco, CA 94109-5494 T: (415) 673-5600 | F: (415) 673-5606 Attorneys for Plaintiff Lucinda Rast 7 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 8 EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 9 10 LUCINDA RAST, Case No. 2:16-CV-00489-TLN-KJN 11 Plaintiff, Honorable Troy L. Nunley 12 v. STIPULATION AND ORDER CONTINUING MOTION TO COMPEL DISCOVERY RESPONSES TO PLAINTIFF RAST’S FIRST SET OF INTERROGATORIES AND FIRST REQUEST FOR PRODUCTION OF DOCUMENTS ADDRESSED TO EACH/ALL DEFENDANTS 13 14 METROPOLITAN LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY; SUTTER HEALTH LONG TERM DISABILITY PLAN, and DOES 120, inclusive, 15 Defendants. 16 Date: May 18, 2017 Time: 9:30 a.m. Place: Courtroom 2, 15th Floor 17 18 Complaint Filed: March 8, 2016 19 20 21 TO: ALL PARTIES HEREIN AND THEIR ATTORNEYS OF RECORD: IT IS HEREBY STIPULATED by and between Plaintiff LUCINDA RAST (“Plaintiff”) and 22 Defendants METROPOLITAN LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY and SUTTER HEALTH LONG 23 TERM DISABILITY PLAN (“Defendants”) (collectively, the “Parties”) through their respective 24 attorneys of record as follows: 25 1. The Parties have met and conferred and, by and through counsel, hereby stipulate and 26 agree to a continuance of the hearing date from the currently scheduled hearing date of May 18, 2017 27 to Thursday, June 1, 2017, or as the Court may allow; 28 29 30 31 1. 16-489 Rast v. Metropolitan Life Order re Stip to Continue MTC:8935-00 Stipulation & Order Continuing Motion to Compel Hearing Date 1 2. The Parties, by and through counsel, hereby further stipulate and agree that the Joint 2 Statement Re: Discovery Disagreement with accompanying Memorandum of Points and Authorities to 3 be filed seven (7) days prior to the original hearing date shall be due per code based on the new 4 hearing date of June 1, 2017; 5 3. No other deadlines in this action will be altered by this stipulation. GOOD CAUSE 6 7 Good Cause exists for the requested continuance. The parties continue to discuss the 8 possibility of a stipulation regarding the nature of the documents Plaintiff seeks, which would 9 otherwise obviate the need for Plaintiff’s motion to compel. While those negotiations continue, the 10 11 parties agreed to postpone the hearing date to avoid further briefing. The change will not alter any other date or event already fixed by Court Order. ATTESTATION OF JOINT SIGNATURE / FILING 12 13 This document is being electronically filed through the Court's ECF System. In this regard, 14 counsel for Plaintiff hereby attests that (1) the content of this document is acceptable to all persons 15 required to sign the document; (2) Defendants’ counsel has concurred with the filing of this 16 document; and (3) a record supporting this concurrence is available for inspection or production if so 17 ordered. 18 19 IT IS SO STIPULATED. Dated: May 11, 2017. GOLDSTEIN, GELLMAN, MELBOSTAD, HARRIS, & McSPARRAN, LLP 20 21 By: /s/ Lee S. Harris [electronically signed] Lee S. Harris Adrian Hern Attorneys for Plaintiff LUCINDA RAST 22 23 24 Dated: May 11, 2017. HINSHAW & CULBERTSON LLP 25 By: /s/ Misty Murray [electronically signed] Misty A. Murray Adam B. Rucker Attorneys for Defendants METROPOLITAN LIFE INSURANCE 2. 26 27 28 29 30 31 16-489 Rast v. Metropolitan Life Order re Stip to Continue MTC:8935-00 Stipulation & Order Continuing Motion to Compel Hearing Date COMPANY and THE SUTTER HEALTH LONG TERM DISABILITY PLAN 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 3. 16-489 Rast v. Metropolitan Life Order re Stip to Continue MTC:8935-00 Stipulation & Order Continuing Motion to Compel Hearing Date 1 ORDER The Parties having so stipulated, and good cause appearing therefore, IT IS HEREBY 2 3 ORDERED THAT: 1. 4 The Hearing on Plaintiff LUCINDA RAST’s Motion to Compel Discovery 5 Responses to Plaintiff RAST’s First Set of Interrogatories and First Request for Production of 6 Documents Addressed to Each/All Defendants shall be continued from the currently scheduled 7 hearing date of May 18, 2017, to June 1, 2017; 2. 8 9 IT IS FURTHER ORDERED THAT the Joint Statement Re: Discovery Disagreement with accompanying Memorandum of Points and Authorities to be filed seven (7) 10 days prior to the original hearing date shall be due based on the new hearing date of June 1, 11 2017. 12 13 IT IS SO ORDERED. Dated: May 12, 2017 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 4. 16-489 Rast v. Metropolitan Life Order re Stip to Continue MTC:8935-00 Stipulation & Order Continuing Motion to Compel Hearing Date

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