Alger v. FCA US LLC

Filing 173

STIPULATION and ORDER signed by Senior Judge Morrison C. England, Jr on 5/10/2021 EXTENDING the deadline to disclose experts and exchange reports to 6/30/2021; and the deadline to disclose supplemental experts and exchange reports to 8/13/2021.(Becknal, R)

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1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 KERSHAW, COOK & TALLEY PC William A. Kershaw (State Bar No. 057486) Stuart C. Talley (State Bar No. 180374) Ian J. Barlow (State Bar No. 262213) 401 Watt Avenue Sacramento, California 95864 Telephone: (916) 779-7000 Facsimile: (916) 721-2501 Email: bill@kctlegal.com Email: stuart@kctlegal.com Email: ian@kctlegal.com Attorneys for Plaintiff and the Class Additional counsel listed on signature page DYKEMA GOSSETT LLP James P. Feeney (State Bar No. 219045) Fred J. Fresard (Pro Hac Vice) Krista L. Lenart (Pro Hac Vice) 333 South Grand Ave., Suite 2100 Los Angeles, California 90071 Telephone: (213) 457-1800 Facsimile: (213) 457-1850 Email: jfeeney@dykema.com Email: ffresard@dykema.com Email: klenart@dykema.com Attorneys for Defendant FCA US LLC f/k/a Chrysler Group LLC 19 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 20 EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 21 22 SHAWN ALGER as an individual and on behalf of all others similarly situated, 23 Case No.: 2:18-cv-00360-MCE-EFB JOINT STIPULATION AND ORDER TO MODIFY EXPERT DISCOVERY SCHEDULE Plaintiff, 24 v. 25 26 27 28 Assigned to Hon. Morrison C. England, Jr. Courtroom 7, 14th Floor Complaint Filed: February 16, 2018 FCA US LLC f/k/a CHRYSLER GROUP LLC, a Delaware Corporation, and DOES 1 through 100, inclusive, Defendants. 1 JOINT STIP AND [PROPOSED] ORDER 2:18-cv-00360-MCE-EFB 1 Plaintiff Shawn Alger (“Plaintiff”) and Defendant FCA US LLC f/k/a Chrysler Group LLC 2 (“Defendant”) (together, the “Parties”), by and through their respective counsel, hereby stipulate as 3 follows: 4 STIPULATION 5 6 WHEREAS, Plaintiff filed his initial complaint on February 15, 2018 [Dkt. No. 1] and his class action complaint on February 16, 2018 (Dkt. No. 4); WHEREAS, on January 20, 2020 the Court entered an order pursuant to the parties’ 7 8 stipulation extending the discovery cut-off date to March 30, 2020 (Dkt. No. 136); 9 10 WHEREAS, on February 18, 2020 the Court entered an order Granting Class Certification (Dkt. No. 141); 11 WHEREAS, on March 23, 2020, the Court entered an order pursuant to the parties’ stipulation 12 extending the discovery cut-off date to June 15, 2020 to allow sufficient time to conduct mediation 13 (Dkt. No. 145); 14 15 WHEREAS, on May 7, 2020 the parties engaged in a mediation that did not resolve in settlement. 16 WHEREAS, on June 17, 2020 the court entered an order extending the time for the 17 completion of certain depositions to September 10, 2020 so that the parties could continue their 18 mediation efforts (Dkt. No. 156); 19 20 WHEREAS, on August 21, 2020 the court entered an order extending the time for the completion of certain depositions to December 18, 2020 (Dkt. No. 160); 21 22 WHEREAS, on January 4, 2021 the court entered an order extending the time for the completion of certain depositions to March 15, 2021 (Dkt. No. 169); 23 24 WHEREAS, following the entry of this order the parties have met and conferred concerning the nature and extent of the defendant’s duty to supplement its discovery responses. 25 WHEREAS, the defendant needs additional time to supplement its discovery responses and 26 those supplemental responses will likely impact the expert reports that are due to be exchanged on 27 May 14, 2021; and 28 /// 2 JOINT STIP AND ORDER 2:18-cv-00360-MCE-EFB 1 WHEREAS, the parties believe that efficiencies will be achieved if the deadline to exchange 2 expert and rebuttal expert reports is extended for a period of 45 days while keeping all other 3 deadlines in place. 4 5 NOW, THEREFORE, the undersigned counsel for the Parties, having met and conferred, stipulate and agree as follows: 6 1. The deadline to disclose experts and exchange reports shall be June 30, 2021; and 7 2. The deadline to disclose supplemental experts and exchange reports shall be August 8 9 13, 2021. Dated: May 4, 2021 Respectfully submitted, 10 KERSHAW, COOK & TALLEY PC 11 12 By: /s/ Stuart C. Talley STUART C. TALLEY WILLIAM A. KERSHAW IAN J. BARLOW 401 Watt Avenue Sacramento, California 95864 Telephone: (916) 779-7000 Facsimile: (916) 721-2501 Email: bill@kctlegal.com Email: stuart@kctlegal.com Email: ian@kctlegal.com 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 MARK P. CHALOS (Pro Hac Vice) KENNETH S. BYRD (Pro Hac Vice) MADELINE M. GOMEZ (Pro Hac Vice) LIEFF CABRASER HEIMANN & BERNSTEIN, LLP 222 Second Avenue South, Suite 1640 Nashville, Tennessee 37201 Telephone: (615) 313-9000 Facsimile: (615) 313-9965 Email: mchalos@lchb.com Email: kbyrd@lchb.com Email: mgomez@lchb.com 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 Attorneys for Plaintiff and the Class 27 28 3 JOINT STIP AND ORDER 2:18-cv-00360-MCE-EFB 1 Dated: May 4, 2021 DYKEMA GOSSETT LLP 2 By: /s/ Fred J. Fresard James P. Feeney (State Bar No. 219045) Fred J. Fresard (Pro Hac Vice) Krista L. Lenart (Pro Hac Vice) 333 South Grand Ave., Suite 2100 Los Angeles, California 90071 Telephone: (213) 457-1800 Facsimile: (213) 457-1850 Email: jfeeney@dykema.com Email: ffresard@dykema.com Email: klenart@dykema.com 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Attorneys for Defendant FCA US LLC f/k/a/ Chrysler Group LLC 10 11 12 13 ORDER IT IS SO ORDERED. 14 15 Dated: May 10, 2021 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 4 JOINT STIP AND ORDER 2:18-cv-00360-MCE-EFB

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