Rigsby et al v. Intercare Specialty Risk Insurance Services, Inc. , et al.,

Filing 75

ORDER signed by District Judge Morrison C. England, Jr. on 11/8/17 RE Joint Report of the parties outlining Discovery Plan. (Mena-Sanchez, L)

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1 2 3 4 5 ROBERT R. RIGGS (SBN 107684) STEPHEN G. PREONAS (SBN 245334) Katzoff & Riggs LLP 1500 Park Avenue, Suite 300 Emeryville, CA 94608 Tel. (510) 597-1990 email: rriggs@katzoffriggs.com Attorneys for Plaintiffs KAREN RIGSBY, Trustee, and DONALD P. STEINMEYER 6 7 8 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 9 EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA – SACRAMENTO DIVISION 1500 PARK AVENUE, SUITE 300 EMERYVILLE, CA 94608 (510)597-1990 KATZOFF & RIGGS LLP 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 KAREN RIGSBY, Trustee of the MARSH REVOCABLE TRUST OF 2003, and DONALD P. STEINMEYER, an individual, ) ) ) ) ) Plaintiffs, ) ) vs. ) ) INTERCARE SPECIALITY RISK ) INSURANCE SERVICES, INC., et al. ) ) Defendants. ) ) _________________________________ ) ) and RELATED COUNTERCLAIM ) _________________________________ ) Case No. 2:17-cv-01347-MCE-EFB JOINT REPORT OF THE PARTIES OUTLINING DISCOVERY PLAN; ORDER THEREON [Fed.R.Civ.P. 26(f)(2)] 20 The parties in this action have conferred regarding the subjects of Federal Rule of 21 Civil Procedure 26, as follows. Counsel for Plaintiffs Karen Rigsby, Trustee of the 22 Marsh Revocable Trust of 2003, and Donald P. Steinmeyer (hereafter, “Plaintiffs”), and _______________________________________________________________________ JOINT REPORT OF THE PARTIES OUTLINING DISCOVERY PLAN; ORDER THEREON 1 1 counsel for Defendant Patriot National, Inc. conferred on August 30, 2017. Counsel for 2 Plaintiffs and counsel for Defendants Intercare Specialty Risk Insurance Services, Inc., 3 ISR Holdings, Inc., and Kevin Hamm conferred on October 4, 2017. As a result of the 4 foregoing conferences, the following outline of a discovery plan was agreed. The parties will each make their respective Rule 26(a) disclosures to all other 7 parties by the date thirty (30) days following the submittal of this Joint Report. Produced 8 documents will be Bates numbered, to the extent practicable, for ease of identifying the 9 producing party. 10 1500 PARK AVENUE, SUITE 300 EMERYVILLE, CA 94608 (510)597-1990 A. 6 KATZOFF & RIGGS LLP 5 B. 11 Discovery may proceed as stated herein regarding any nonprivileged matter that is 12 relevant to any party’s claims or defenses and proportional to the needs of the case, 13 considering the importance of the issues at stake in the action, the amount in controversy, 14 the parties’ relative access to relevant information, the parties’ resources, the importance 15 of the discovery in resolving the issues, and whether the burden or expense of the 16 proposed discovery outweighs its likely benefit. 17 discovery need not be admissible in evidence in order to be discoverable. 18 19 20 21 22 Disclosures Under Fed.R.Civ.P. 26(a) Sequence and Subjects of Discovery 1. Information within this scope of Written Discovery. Interrogatories to parties may be propounded pursuant to Fed.R.Civ.P. 33 by any party, effective upon the submittal of this Joint Report. The limit on the number of interrogatories specified in Fed.R.Civ.P. 33(a)(1) shall apply. Leave to serve additional interrogatories may be granted by the Court for good cause shown. The parties shall _______________________________________________________________________ JOINT REPORT OF THE PARTIES OUTLINING DISCOVERY PLAN; ORDER THEREON 2 1 meet and confer in good faith concerning any request for leave to propound additional 2 interrogatories prior to any motion for leave of Court. 3 Requests for admissions to parties may be propounded pursuant to Fed.R.Civ.P. 36 4 by any party, effective upon the submittal of this Joint Report. Requests for admissions 5 shall be limited to thirty (30) by any one party to any other party. Leave to propound 6 additional requests for admissions may be granted by the Court for good cause shown. 7 The parties shall meet and confer in good faith concerning any request for leave to 8 propound additional requests for admissions prior to any motion for leave of Court. 1500 PARK AVENUE, SUITE 300 EMERYVILLE, CA 94608 (510)597-1990 Requests for production of documents, electronically stored information, and 10 KATZOFF & RIGGS LLP 9 tangible things to parties may be propounded pursuant to Fed.R.Civ.P. 34 by any party, 11 after the time for each party’s initial Rule 26(a) disclosures specified in this Joint Report. 12 Additionally, as provided in Fed.R.Civ.P. 34(c) and Fed.R.Civ.P. 45, a nonparty may be 13 compelled to produce documents and tangible things, after the time for each party’s 14 initial Rule 26(a) disclosures specified in this Joint Report. Leave to propound additional 15 requests for admissions may be granted by the Court for good cause shown. The parties 16 shall meet and confer in good faith concerning any request for leave to propound 17 additional requests for admissions prior to any motion for leave of Court. 18 2. Depositions. 19 Depositions by oral examination may be taken pursuant to Fed.R.Civ.P. 30 during 20 any of the following time periods: (1) between February 1, 2018 and May 4, 2018; and 21 (2) between Aug. 13, 2018 and Aug. 31, 2018. Leave of court shall be required to take 22 depositions under the circumstances listed in Fed.R.Civ.P. 30(a)(2). The deponent’s _______________________________________________________________________ JOINT REPORT OF THE PARTIES OUTLINING DISCOVERY PLAN; ORDER THEREON 3 1 attendance may be compelled by subpoena under Rule 45. The parties shall meet and 2 confer in good faith concerning any request for leave to take depositions, if such leave is 3 required. time between February 1, 2018 and Aug. 31, 2018. Leave of court shall be required to 6 take depositions under the circumstances listed in Fed.R.Civ.P. 31(a)(2). The deponent’s 7 attendance may be compelled by subpoena under Rule 45. The parties shall meet and 8 confer in good faith concerning any request for leave to take depositions, if such leave is 9 required. 10 1500 PARK AVENUE, SUITE 300 EMERYVILLE, CA 94608 (510)597-1990 Depositions by written questions may be taken pursuant to Fed.R.Civ.P. 31 at any 5 KATZOFF & RIGGS LLP 4 C. 11 Electronically Stored Information (“ESI”) that is within the scope of discovery as 12 identified in this Joint Report will be produced, unless it would need to be produced from 13 sources that are not reasonably accessible because of undue burden or cost. The parties 14 will produce ESI in digital format, including: (i) Bates labeled images, either in single- 15 page TIFF image format, 300 dots per inch, or multi-page PDF format; (ii) corresponding 16 metadata for each separate record; (iii) extracted text or OCR text for each document 17 containing text; (iv) load files for all images, metadata and extracted text provided. Files 18 that require viewing in their native format for a full understanding of their content, such 19 as spreadsheets, presentations, database files, and any other file types that reasonably 20 require viewing in their native format for a full understanding of their content, shall be 21 produced in their native format along with a placeholder image containing the assigned 22 bates number of the native file. In the event documents are produced in a format that is Electronically Stored Information _______________________________________________________________________ JOINT REPORT OF THE PARTIES OUTLINING DISCOVERY PLAN; ORDER THEREON 4 1 unusual, rare and/or proprietary, the parties will meet and confer in good faith concerning 2 making available to other parties any software that may be necessary to view the 3 documents in their native format. 4 5 6 The parties shall meet and confer in good faith concerning any issues of reasonable accessibility or undue cost in connection with ESI. D. Privilege, Confidentiality and Protective Orders 1. 7 Privilege promptly returned to that party, with any copies destroyed, if the party makes a written 10 1500 PARK AVENUE, SUITE 300 EMERYVILLE, CA 94608 (510)597-1990 Privileged documents that are inadvertently produced by any party shall be 9 KATZOFF & RIGGS LLP 8 claim of privilege accompanied by a request for such return and destruction with 11 reasonable promptness after discovering the inadvertent production. Any unresolved 12 disputes over whether or not produced documents are privileged, and/or, over whether a 13 knowing waiver of the privilege has occurred, shall be resolved by the Court prior to any 14 further use of the document for purposes of testimony or evidence. 2. 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 Confidentiality The parties have agreed to enter into the Stipulation and [Proposed] Protective Order attached as Exhibit A to this Joint Report. E. Changes to Limitations on Discovery As discussed herein, the parties have agreed to abide by the limitations on discovery arising from the current version of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, unless there is good cause for modifying these limitations. The parties have further agreed to meet and confer in good faith prior to presenting any request to modify the limitations of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure to the court. _______________________________________________________________________ JOINT REPORT OF THE PARTIES OUTLINING DISCOVERY PLAN; ORDER THEREON 5 1 2 3 4 5 6 STIPULATION TO ADOPT JOINT REPORT AS ORDER OF THE COURT The undersigned, constituting counsel of record for all of the parties who have appeared in this action, join in this Joint Report. The undersigned stipulate that the Court should adopt the Joint Report as the order of the Court. [signatures continue on following page] Dated: October 18, 2017 KATZOFF & RIGGS LLP 7 /s Robert R. Riggs By: ______________________________ Robert R. Riggs 8 9 Attorneys for Plaintiffs and CrossDefendants KAREN RIGSBY, Trustee of the MARSH REVOCABLE TRUST OF 2003, and DONALD P. STEINMEYER 1500 PARK AVENUE, SUITE 300 EMERYVILLE, CA 94608 (510)597-1990 KATZOFF & RIGGS LLP 10 11 12 13 Dated: October 18, 2017 LAW OFFICES OF PETER DUNN LEMMON 14 /s Peter Dunn Lemmon By: ______________________________ Peter Dunn Lemmon 15 16 Attorneys for Defendant and CrossComplainant ISR HOLDINGS, INC. 17 18 Dated: October 18, 2017 19 20 21 22 _______________________________________________________________________ JOINT REPORT OF THE PARTIES OUTLINING DISCOVERY PLAN; ORDER THEREON 6 1 LAW OFFICE HARPAINTER OF DEWEY V. 2 3 By: /s Dewey V. Harpainter ______________________________ Dewey V. Harpainter 4 Attorneys for Defendant KEVIN HAMM 5 Dated: October 18, 2017 6 CONRAD & SCHERER LLP 7 /s Russell R. O’Brien ______________________________ Russell R. O’Brien By: 8 9 Attorneys for Defendant NATIONAL, INC. PATRIOT 1500 PARK AVENUE, SUITE 300 EMERYVILLE, CA 94608 (510)597-1990 KATZOFF & RIGGS LLP 10 11 Dated: October 18, 2017 WANGER JONES HELSLEY PC 12 13 By: /s Oliver W. Wanger ______________________________ Oliver W. Wanger 14 Attorneys for Defendant NATIONAL, INC. 15 PATRIOT 16 By the Court: 17 Good cause appearing, IT IS SO ORDERED. 18 Dated: November 8, 2017 19 20 21 22 _______________________________________________________________________ JOINT REPORT OF THE PARTIES OUTLINING DISCOVERY PLAN; ORDER THEREON 7

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