Romeo and Juliette, Inc. v. Wu

Filing 24

STIPULATION and ORDER signed by District Judge Troy L. Nunley on 1/7/2021 MODIFYING the Scheduling Order as follows: Discovery due by 8/9/2021, Designation of Expert Witnesses due by 9/9/2021 and Dispositive Motions filed by 1/7/2022. (Tupolo, A)

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  1 2 3 4 OGNIAN A. GAVRILOV, ESQ. (258583) GREGORY P. O’DEA, ESQ. (110966) GAVRILOV & BROOKS 2315 Capitol Avenue Sacramento, CA 95816 Phone: (916) 504-0529 Facsimile: (916) 727-6877 ognian@gavrilovlaw.com 5 6 Attorney for Plaintiff and Cross-Defendant ROMEO & JULIETTE, INC. 7 8 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 9 FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA Gavrilov & Brooks 2315 Capitol Avenue Sacramento, CA 95816 10 ROMEO & JULIETTE, INC., a California Corporation, 11 12 Plaintiff, 13 v. Case No. 2:18-cv-00214-TLN-AC JOINT STIPULATION AND ORDER TO MODIFY SCHEDULING ORDER TO CONTINUE ALL DATES DUE TO CORONAVIRUS 14 KEN WU, an individual, 15 Defendant. 16 17 KEN WU, an individual, 18 Cross-Complainant, 19 Complaint Filed: Answer Filed: Counterclaim Filed: Answer to Counterclaim: Trial Date: January 30, 2018 March 19, 2018 March 19, 2018 April 9, 2018 Not Applicable v. 20 ROMEO & JULIETTE, INC., a California Corporation, and DOES 1-25, inclusive, 21 22 23 Cross-Defendants.   24 25 26 27 28 1 JOINT STIPULATION AND ORDER TO MODIFY SCHEDULING ORDER AND CONTINUE ALL DATES   1 TO THE COURT: 2 Plaintiff/Cross-Defendant ROMEO & JULIETTE, INC. (“plaintiff”) and Defendant/Cross- 3 Complainant KEN WU (“defendant”) hereby submit this Stipulation and [Proposed] Order to the 4 Court for approval. 5 WHEREAS, the deadline to complete non-expert discovery is February 9, 2021; 6 WHEREAS, the designation of expert witnesses in this matter is presently set for March 9, 7 2021, with any supplemental designation due 20 days later; 8 WHEREAS, the deadline to file dispositive motions is July 8, 2021; 9 WHEREAS, the ongoing COVID 19 pandemic has impacted the Parties’ discovery and will Gavrilov & Brooks 2315 Capitol Avenue Sacramento, CA 95816 10 11 continue to impact the discovery including the conducting of multiple depositions. WHEREAS, the State of California and the County of Sacramento have announced a public 12 health emergency mandating the closure of non-essential businesses and that requires residents of the 13 State of California and the County of Sacramento to avoid congregating with persons outside their 14 immediate family or household, and to refrain from all non-essential travel; 15 WHEREAS, COVID 19 cases and deaths have increased to record levels and are expected to 16 substantially rise over the ensuing several months, and ICU capacity in the State of California is 17 substantially over-burdened; 18 19 20 WHEREAS, the depositions of the witnesses would require travel and the congregation of multiple people in a confined space for hours; WHEREAS, the parties agree that the depositions should proceed at a point in time when 21 COVID 19 cases have at least stabilized and the State and County have eased current restrictions on 22 congregation in indoor spaces and non-essential travel; 23 WHEREAS, no final pre-trial conference has been set in this matter; 24 WHEREAS, no trial date has been set in this matter; 25 WHEREAS, the parties have met and conferred and hereby stipulate and agree that a 26 continuance of all pending dates for 180 days from the dates now set will allow time for the Parties to 27 conduct and complete depositions at a point in time when COVID 19 cases have at least stabilized and 28 2 JOINT STIPULATION AND ORDER TO MODIFY SCHEDULING ORDER AND CONTINUE ALL DATES   1 the State and County have eased current restrictions on congregation in indoor spaces and non- 2 essential travel; 3 WHEREAS, the new dates requested by the Parties are as follows: 4  The date for the completion of non-expert discovery shall be August 9, 2021; 5  The date for the designation of Expert Witnesses shall be completion of expert 6 discovery shall be September 9, 2021 with supplemental designations due 20 days 7 thereafter; 8 9  Dispositive Motions shall be heard no later than January 7, 2022. WHEREFORE, the parties hereby stipulate, and respectfully ask the Court to modify the Gavrilov & Brooks 2315 Capitol Avenue Sacramento, CA 95816 10 Scheduling Order by continuing all pending dates, including the expert and non-expert discovery cut 11 offs, the filing deadline for dispositive motions, by 180 days, as indicated hereinabove, and without 12 prejudice to requesting an additional extension of these dates should the public health emergency so 13 require. As previously ordered by the Court, the parties will file a Joint Notice of Trial Readiness not 14 later than 30 days after receiving the Court’s ruling(s) on the last filed dispositive motion. If the 15 parties do not intend to file dispositive motions, the parties will file a Joint Notice of Trial Readiness 16 not later than 120 days after the close of discovery, and the notice shall include statements of intent to 17 forego the filing of dispositive motions. After review of the parties’ Joint Notice of Trial Readiness, 18 the Court will issue an order that sets forth dates for a Final Pretrial Conference and Trial. 19 20 IT IS SO STIPULATED. 21 22 Dated: January 6, 2021 GAVRILOV & BROOKS 23 24 25 By /s/ Ognian A. Gavrilov OGNIAN A. GAVRILOV Attorneys for Plaintiff/Cross-Defendant ROMEO & JULIETTE, INC. 26 27 28 3 JOINT STIPULATION AND ORDER TO MODIFY SCHEDULING ORDER AND CONTINUE ALL DATES   1 Dated: January 4, 2021 ELLIS LAW GROUP, LLC 2 By /s/ Mark E. Ellis Attorneys for Defendant/Cross-Complainant KEN WU 3 4 5 ORDER 6 7 8 9 Gavrilov & Brooks 2315 Capitol Avenue Sacramento, CA 95816 10 11 12 Pursuant to the stipulation of the parties, all the deadlines previously set by the Court in this case, including the non-expert and expert discovery cut off, expert disclosures and deadline for filing dispositive motions, are hereby extended by 180 days as follows:  The date for the completion of non-expert discovery shall be August 9, 2021;  The date for the designation of Expert Witnesses shall be completion of expert discovery shall be September 9, 2021 with supplemental designations due 20 days 13 thereafter; 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21  Dispositive Motions shall be heard no later than January 7, 2022. Further, the parties will file a Joint Notice of Trial Readiness not later than 30 days after receiving the Court’s ruling(s) on the last filed dispositive motion. If the parties do not intend to file dispositive motions, the parties will file a Joint Notice of Trial Readiness not later than 120 days after the close of discovery and the notice shall include statements of intent to forego the filing of dispositive motions. After review of the parties’ Joint Notice of Trial Readiness, the Court will issue an order that sets forth dates for a Final Pretrial Conference and Trial. 22 23 IT IS SO ORDERED. 24 25 26 DATED: January 7, 2021 Troy L. Nunley United States District Judge 27 28 4 JOINT STIPULATION AND ORDER TO MODIFY SCHEDULING ORDER AND CONTINUE ALL DATES

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