Valero Refining Company California v. Pacific Gas & Electric Company

Filing 36

STIPULATION and ORDER signed by District Judge Troy L. Nunley on 6/14/18, ORDERING that the Pretrial Scheduling Order is AMENDED as follows: Close of Fact Discovery due by 8/24/18, Designation of Expert Witnesses due by 10/19/2018, supplemental expert disclosures due by 11/16/18, and the deadline for hearing on dispositive motions is 2/7/2019. (Kastilahn, A)

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1 2 3 4 5 Laurie Edelstein (Bar No. 164466) Michael E. Flynn-O’Brien (Bar No. 291301) STEPTOE & JOHNSON LLP One Market Street Steuart Tower, Suite 1800 San Francisco, California 94105 Telephone: (415) 365-6700 Facsimile: (415) 365-6699 ledelstein@steptoe.com sjackel@steptoe.com 6 7 8 STEPTOE & JOHNSON LLP One Market Street, Steuart Tower, Suite 1800 San Francisco, CA 94105 9 Michael Dockterman (admitted pro hac vice) STEPTOE & JOHNSON LLP 115 S. LaSalle Street, Suite 3100 Chicago, Illinois 60603 Telephone: (312) 577-1300 Facsimile: (312) 577-1370 mdockterman@steptoe.com 10 11 Attorneys for Defendant Pacific Gas and Electric Company 12 John Cox (Bar No. 197687) LAW OFFICES OF JOHN COX Telephone: (416) 939-6303 Nathan R. Jaskowiak (Bar No. 248007) Alexander J. Bukac (Bar No. 305491) KEESAL, YOUNG & LOGAN 450 Pacific Avenue San Francisco, California 94133 Telephone: (415) 398-6000 Facsimile: (415) 981-0136 Mikal C. Watts (admitted pro hac vice) Francisco Guerra IV (admitted pro hac vice) Mark A. Fassold (admitted pro hac vice) Watts Guerra, L.L.P. Four Dominion Drive Bldg. 3, Suite 100 San Antonio, TX 78257 Telephone: (210) 527-0500 Facsimile: (210) 527-0501 Attorneys for Plaintiff Valero Refining Company – California 13 14 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 15 FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 VALERO REFINING COMPANY – CALIFORNIA, a Delaware corporation, ) ) ) Plaintiff, ) ) v. ) ) PACIFIC GAS AND ELECTRIC COMPANY, a ) California corporation, ) ) Defendant. ) ) ) ) No. 17 Civ. 1350 (TLN) (EFB) STIPULATION AND ORDER TO AMEND DEADLINES IN PRETRIAL SCHEDULING ORDER 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 STIPULATED REQUEST TO AMEND DEADLINES IN PRETRIAL SCHEDULING ORDER No. 17 Civ. 1350 (TLN) (EFB) 1 STIPULATION TO AMEND DEADLINES IN PRETRIAL SCHEDULING ORDER 2 WHEREAS, to date, the parties have taken 13 depositions and served 133 requests for 3 production, 137 requests for admission, 24 interrogatories, and 12 requests for inspection; 4 WHEREAS, the parties are in the process of completing the remainder of discovery, 5 including the production of documents, taking of depositions, and inspection of the refinery; 6 WHEREAS, the scheduling of the remaining discovery has proven challenging, and the parties believe an extension will help complete the remaining discovery in an orderly fashion and 8 minimize, if not eliminate, discovery disputes that might otherwise require the Court’s attention; 9 STEPTOE & JOHNSON LLP One Market Street, Steuart Tower, Suite 1800 San Francisco, CA 94105 7 WHEREAS, the parties have agreed it would be beneficial to the parties and facilitate the 10 completion of discovery to extend the deadline for the close of fact discovery from June 29, 2018 11 to August 24, 2018; the deadline for disclosure of expert witnesses from August 30, 2018 to 12 October 19, 2018; the deadline for disclosure of rebuttal experts from September 29, 2018 to 13 November 16, 2018; and the deadline for hearing on dispositive motions from December 6, 2018 14 to February 7, 2019; 15 WHEREAS, the only prior request for an extension of deadlines set forth in the Pretrial 16 Scheduling Order was a joint request for a 10-day extension to rebuttal expert reports filed by the 17 parties two weeks after the Pretrial Scheduling Order was entered (see Dkt. #28); 18 WHEREAS, the extensions agreed to by the parties, subject to approval by the Court, 19 will not change the deadlines for submission of the joint pretrial conference statement, the final 20 pretrial conference, or the trial date; 21 IT IS HEREBY STIPULATED AND AGREED by and between the plaintiff Valero 22 Refining Company – California and defendant Pacific Gas and Electric Company, through their 23 undersigned counsel and subject to the approval of the Court, that the following deadlines set 24 forth in the Pretrial Scheduling Order (Dkt. #26, as amended by Dkt. #28) shall be amended as 25 follows: 26 27 28 29 30 STIPULATED REQUEST TO AMEND DEADLINES IN PRETRIAL SCHEDULING ORDER No. 17 Civ. 1350 (TLN) (EFB) 2 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Event Current Deadline New Deadline Close of Fact Discovery June 29, 2018 August 24, 2018 Expert Disclosures and Reports August 30, 2018 October 19, 2018 Rebuttal Expert Disclosures and Reports September 29, 2018 November 16, 2018 Deadline for Hearing on Dispositive Motions December 6, 2018 February 7, 2019* * Subject to the Court’s availability and convenience. Joint Pretrial Conference Statement March 28, 2019 Unchanged Final Pretrial Conference April 4, 2019 Unchanged Trial June 3, 2019 Unchanged 8 STEPTOE & JOHNSON LLP One Market Street, Steuart Tower, Suite 1800 San Francisco, CA 94105 9 10 11 12 13 14 All other dates set forth in the Pretrial Scheduling Order, as amended, shall remain unchanged. 15 16 17 18 19 20 Respectfully submitted, Dated: June 12, 2018 KEESAL, YOUNG & LOGAN 21 22 By: /s/ John Cox 23 John Cox (Bar No. 197687) LAW OFFICES OF JOHN COX Telephone: (416) 939-6303 24 25 Nathan R. Jaskowiak Alexander J. Bukac KEESAL, YOUNG & LOGAN 450 Pacific Avenue San Francisco, California 94133 Telephone: (415) 398-6000 26 27 28 29 30 STIPULATED REQUEST TO AMEND DEADLINES IN PRETRIAL SCHEDULING ORDER No. 17 Civ. 1350 (TLN) (EFB) 3 1 Mikal C. Watts (admitted pro hac vice) Francisco Guerra IV (admitted pro hac vice) Mark A. Fassold (admitted pro hac vice) Watts Guerra, L.L.P. Four Dominion Drive Bldg. 3, Suite 100 San Antonio, TX 78257 Telephone: (210) 527-0500 Facsimile: (210) 527-0501 2 3 4 5 6 Attorneys for Plaintiff Valero Refining Company – California 7 8 Dated: June 12, 2018 STEPTOE & JOHNSON LLP STEPTOE & JOHNSON LLP One Market Street, Steuart Tower, Suite 1800 San Francisco, CA 94105 9 10 By: /s/ Michael E. Flynn-O’Brien 11 Laurie Edelstein Michael E. Flynn-O’Brien STEPTOE & JOHNSON LLP One Market Street Steuart Tower, Suite 1800 San Francisco, California 94105 Telephone: (415) 365-6700 12 13 14 15 Michael Dockterman STEPTOE & JOHNSON LLP 115 S. LaSalle Street, Suite 3100 Chicago, Illinois 60603 Telephone: (312) 577-1300 16 17 18 Attorneys for Defendant Pacific Gas and Electric Company 19 20 21 IT IS SO ORDERED. 22 23 Dated: June 14, 2018 24 25 Troy L. Nunley United States District Judge 26 27 28 29 30 STIPULATED REQUEST TO AMEND DEADLINES IN PRETRIAL SCHEDULING ORDER No. 17 Civ. 1350 (TLN) (EFB) 4

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