McCullar v. United States of America et al

Filing 15

STIPULATION and ORDER signed by District Judge Troy L. Nunley on 10/25/17, ORDERING that the expert discovery cut off is 12/22/2017 and the deadline for filing dispositive motions is 1/11/2018. (Kastilahn, A)

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1 PHILLIP A. TALBERT United States Attorney 2 VICTORIA L. BOESCH Assistant United States Attorney 3 501 I Street, Suite 10-100 Sacramento, CA 95814 4 Telephone: (916) 554-2743 Facsimile: (916) 554-2900 5 Attorneys for the United States 6 7 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 8 EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 9 10 ROGER MCCULLAR, Plaintiff, 11 12 v. 13 UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, 14 Defendant. CASE NO.: 2:16-CV-01174-TLN-CKD STIPULATION AND ORDER MODIFYING SCHEDULING ORDER TO EXTEND TIME FOR EXPERT DISCOVERY JUDGE: Hon. Troy L. Nunley 15 16 Plaintiff Roger McCullar and the Defendant the United States respectfully submit this stipulation 17 and proposed order jointly asking the Court to modify the scheduling order to allow the parties 18 additional time for expert discovery, setting an expert discovery cut-off of December 22, 2017, and a 19 deadline for filing dispositive motions of January 11, 2018. The scheduling order currently instructs 20 the parties to complete expert discovery in time to comply with the dispositive motion deadline, which 21 requires that dispositive motions to be heard no later than December 14, 2017 (thus requiring the parties 22 to file such motions by November 16, 2017). See Dkt. 7 at 4. The requested modifications would not 23 affect the scheduling order’s dates for the pretrial conference (March 8, 2018, at 2:00 p.m.) and trial 24 (May 7, 2018, at 9:00 a.m.). See Dkt. 7 at 6, 10. Good cause exists for the requested modifications 25 because the parties have been diligently engaging in discovery and Plaintiff counsel’s trial schedule 26 prevented expert deposition scheduling in September and October. That conflict, combined with expert 27 witness conflicts, made scheduling expert depositions very difficult. The parties have met and 28 STIPULATION AND ORDER TO MODIFY SCHEDULING ORDER McCullar v. United States, Case No. 2:16-cv-01174-TLN-CKD 1 1 conferred, working together to schedule all the expert depositions as follows: 2 3 4 5 6 7 Plaintiff’s Expert – Edward Eyster, M.D. Plaintiff’s Expert – Maria Brady, M.S. Plaintiff’s Expert – Christopher Stephenson, M.D. Plaintiff’s Expert – Donna Post, R.N. Plaintiff’s Expert – Craig Enos, CPA Defendant’s Expert – Dr. D. Michael Hembd, M.D. Defendant’s Expert – Dr. Eugene Carragee, M.D. Defendant’s Expert – Dr. Gerald Rodts, Jr., M.D. November 3, 2017 November 14, 2017 November 14, 2017 November 17, 2017 November 21, 2017 December 1, 2017 December 7, 2017 December 15, 2017 8 Accordingly, the parties stipulate to and respectfully request that the Court modify the 9 scheduling order to set an expert discovery cut-off of December 22, 2017, and a deadline for filing 10 dispositive motions of January 11, 2018. 11 Respectfully Submitted, 12 13 DATED: October 25, 2017 PHILLIP A. TALBERT United States Attorney 14 By: 15 /s/ Victoria L. Boesch VICTORIA L. BOESCH Assistant United States Attorney Attorneys for Defendant, United States of America By: /s/ David E. Smith (authorized 10/25/17) DAVID E. SMITH Smith Zitano Law Firm Attorneys for Plaintiff 16 17 18 19 DATED: October 25, 2017 20 21 22 ORDER 23 24 IT IS SO ORDERED. 25 DATED: October 25, 2017 26 Troy L. Nunley United States District Judge 27 28 STIPULATION AND ORDER TO MODIFY SCHEDULING ORDER McCullar v. United States, Case No. 2:16-cv-01174-TLN-CKD 2

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