Darnell v. Metropolitan Life Insurance Company

Filing 31

STIPULATION AND ORDER re 30 STIPULATION WITH PROPOSED ORDER TO EXTEND DEADLINE TO COMPLETE MEDIATION AND TO WITHDRAW FROM THE COURTS MEDIATION PROGRAM AND PARTICIPATE IN PRIVATE MEDIATION filed by Metropolitan Life Insurance Company. Signed by Judge Jon S. Tigar on April 2, 2018. (wsn, COURT STAFF) (Filed on 4/2/2018)

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LINDA B. OLIVER (SBN 166720)
[e-mail]
MAYNARD, COOPER & GALE, LLP
600 Montgomery Street, Suite 2600
San Francisco, CA 94111
Telephone: [phone]
Facsimile: [phone]
Attorney for Defendant
METROPOLITAN LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY
JAMES P. KEENLEY (SBN 253106)
[e-mail]
BRIAN H. KIM (SBN 253109)
[e-mail]
EMILY A. BOLT (SBN 215492)
[e-mail]
BOLT KEENLEY KIM LLP
1010 Grayson Street, Suite 3
Berkeley, CA 94710
Telephone: [phone]
Facsimile: [phone]
Attorneys for Plaintiff
ERVAN DARNELL

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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
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NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA
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ERVAN DARNELL,
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Plaintiff,
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vs.

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METROPOLITAN LIFE INSURANCE
COMPANY,

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Defendant.

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Case No.: 3:17-cv-03965-JST
STIPULATION AND [PROPOSED]
ORDER TO EXTEND DEADLINE
TO COMPLETE MEDIATION AND
TO WITHDRAW FROM THE
COURT’S MEDIATION
PROGRAM AND PARTICIPATE
IN PRIVATE MEDIATION

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Plaintiff Ervan Darnell (“Plaintiff”) and Defendant Metropolitan Life Insurance Company

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(“MetLife” or “Defendant”) (collectively, “the Parties”), through their respective attorneys,

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hereby jointly stipulate to extend the deadline to complete mediation from April 20, 2018 until

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May 31, 2018 and to withdraw from the court’s mediation program and instead participate in

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private mediation. As grounds for this order, the Parties stipulate as follows:
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STIPULATION AND [PROPOSED] ORDER
TO EXTEND DEADLINE TO COMPLETE MEDIATION

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Good cause exists for an extension of the mediation deadline. The current

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deadline to complete mediation is April 20, 2018. The parties scheduled the mediation session

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for April 16, 2018 with R. Bradford Huss, Esq., a panel mediator, a date MetLife’s representative

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located in New York is only available by telephone. The Court denied MetLife’s request for

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leave to participate in the mediation by telephone.

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The Parties have now decided that they would prefer to participate in a mediation

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with a private mediator. They have scheduled a mediation for May 9, 2018 with Adrienne

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Publicover, Esq., of JAMS.

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FILER’S ATTESTATION-Local Rule 5.1(i)(3)

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I, Linda B. Oliver, am the ECF User whose identification and password are being used to

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file this document. I hereby attest that the concurrence to the filing of this document has been

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obtained from each signatory hereto.

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DATED: March 30, 2018

MAYNARD, COOPER & GALE LLP

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/s/ Linda B. Oliver
Linda B. Oliver
Attorney for Defendant
Metropolitan Life Insurance
Company

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DATED: March 30, 2018

BOLT KEENLEY KIM LLP

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/s/ James P. Keenley
James P. Keenley
Brian H. Kim
Emily A. Bolt
Attorney for Plaintiff
Ervan Darnell

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STIPULATION AND [PROPOSED] ORDER
TO EXTEND DEADLINE TO COMPLETE MEDIATION

[PROPOSED] ORDER

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PURSUANT TO STIPULATION, IT IS HEREBY ORDERED that (1) the deadline to

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complete the mediation is extended from April 20, 2018 to May 9, 2018 and (2) the case is

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withdrawn from the court’s mediation program.

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DATED: April 2, 2018
JON S. TIGAR
United States District Judge

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STIPULATION AND [PROPOSED] ORDER
TO EXTEND DEADLINE TO COMPLETE MEDIATION