STIPULATION AND [PROPOSED] ORDER EXTENDING BRIEFING DEADLINES

CLASS ACTION

DEMAND FOR TRIAL BY JURY

VINCE CHHABRIA, Magistrate Judge.

I. STIPULATION

The parties have stipulated and request that the Court extend the briefing deadlines for Defendants' Special Motion to Strike (Dkt. No. 37) and Motion to Dismiss (Dkt. No. 38). Civil LR 7-12. Plaintiffs request a one-week extension of the time for them to respond to Friday, May 8, 2015. The parties have agreed that Defendants' replies should be due two weeks later, on Friday May 22, 2015.

The motions are noticed for hearing on July 2, 2015. If the parties' requested extensions are granted, the motions will be fully briefed forty-one days before the hearing date.

Plaintiffs requested and Defendants agreed to an extension of time to respond because both motions are dispositive motions of significant substance. Plaintiffs are working diligently to respond to the motions but request an additional week to prepare their responses to the forty-seven pages of briefing filed by Defendants. The parties have agreed that Defendants should be granted an additional week to file their replies as well. The parties do not anticipate that the proposed extension of the briefing deadlines will require the Court to reset the hearing date for the motion or any other deadline.

IT IS SO STIPULATED.

II. [PROPOSED] ORDER

PURSUANT TO STIPULATION, IT IS SO ORDERED. Plaintiffs' responses to Defendants' Special Motion to Strike (Dkt. No. 37) and Motion to Dismiss (Dkt. No. 38) shall be due on Friday, May 8, 2015. Defendants' replies shall be due on Friday May 22, 2015.