Volynskaya v. Metropolitan Life Insurance Company et al

Filing 12

ORDER DENYING 11 Request for Telephonic Appearance at the Case Management Conference. Signed by Judge Jeffrey S. White on 9/4/09. (jjo, COURT STAFF) (Filed on 9/4/2009)

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Robert K. Renner (155283), [e-mail] Scott E. Calvert (210787), [e-mail] 2 BARGER & WOLEN LLP 19800 MacArthur Boulevard, 8th Floor 3 Irvine, California 92612 Telephone: [phone] Facsimile: [phone]
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Attorneys for Defendants Metropolitan Life Insurance Company and 6 Epicentric, Inc. Health and Welfare Plan
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BARGER & WOLEN LLP
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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA ILLIENA VOLYNSKAYA, ) ) Plaintiff, ) ) vs. ) ) METROPOLITAN LIFE INSURANCE ) COMPANY, a corporation; ) EPICENTRIC, INC. HEALTH AND ) WELFARE PLAN, an ERISA plan; ) DOES 1 through 10 inclusive, ) ) Defendants. ) ) CASE NO.: 3:09-cv-02436-JSW DEFENDANTS METROPOLITAN LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY AND EPICENTRIC, INC. HEALTH AND WELFARE PLAN'S REQUEST FOR TELEPHONIC APPEARANCE OF COUNSEL AT THE CASE MANAGEMENT CONFERENCE Case Management Conference: DATE: September 11, 2009 TIME: 1:30 p.m. CTRM: 2 Complaint Filed: June 2, 2009

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BARGER & WOLEN LLP
19800 MACARTHUR BLVD. EIGHTH FLOOR IRVINE, CA 92612 [phone]

TO THE HONORABLE JEFFREY S. WHITE, AND TO THE PLAINTIFF AND HER ATTORNEYS OF RECORD: PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that counsel for Defendants Metropolitan Life Insurance Company and Epicentric, Inc. Health and Welfare Plan (collectively, "Defendants") hereby makes this request to appear telephonically at the upcoming Case Management Conference, currently scheduled for Friday, September 11, 2009 at 1:30 p.m. GOOD CAUSE exists to grant this request for telephonic appearance, as lead trial counsel for Defendants, Robert K. Renner, Esq., practices in Orange County, California, and if required to appear in person, he would incur substantial costs traveling to this Case Management Conference. Mr. Renner can be reached directly at [phone] on the date of the hearing, and he is also available to call into the Court if preferred. DATED: September 3, 2009 BARGER & WOLEN LLP By: /s/ Robert K. Renner ROBERT K. RENNER SCOTT E. CALVERT Attorneys for Defendants Metropolitan Life Insurance Company and Epicentric, Inc. Health and Welfare Plan

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ORDER After considering the Request of Defendants Metropolitan Life Insurance Company and Epicentric, Inc. Health and Welfare Plan (collectively, "Defendants"), by and through their respective counsel, to grant Defendants request to appear telephonically at the September 11, 2009 Case Management Conference, good cause appearing, IT IS HEREBY ORDERED that Defendants be allowed to appear telephonically. Defendants' request is DENIED. IT IS SO ORDERED.
September 4, 2009 DATED: ____________

_________________________________________ THE HONORABLE JEFFREY S. WHITE UNITED STATES DISTRICT JUDGE

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