STIPULATION TO CONTINUE MOTION CUT-OFF RE: DISCOVERY BY SIX WEEKS; and ORDER

WILLIAM H. ORRICK, III, District Judge.

Plaintiff Fadi G. Haddad, M.D. ("Plaintiff") and Defendant Hartford Life and Accident Insurance Company ("Hartford") hereby agree to continue the deadline to file a joint brief regarding any discovery dispute as follows:

1. WHEREAS, under Local rule 37-3 discovery motions/briefs must be filed within 7 days after the discovery cut-off.

2. WHEREAS, the discovery cut-off in this case was February 24, 2017, requiring any briefing regarding discovery disputes be filed by March 3, 2017.

3. WHEREAS the parties currently have a discovery dispute which they are meeting and conferring over. The parties hope to resolve the issue but, if not, they request six weeks to file a joint discovery brief. The extra-time is needed both because the dispute itself has only recently arisen and thus the parties need more time to meet and confer and Plaintiff's counsel is undergoing a medical procedure in early March and will likely not be able to devote time to discovery issues while he is recuperating. No other case management dates will be impacted by this stipulation.

4. IT IS THEREFORE STIPULATED that the deadline to file a joint brief regarding any discovery dispute will be continued from February 24, 2017 to April 7, 2017.

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I, Laurence F. Padway, attest that concurrence in the filing of this document has been obtained from the other Signatory.

ORDER

Pursuant to stipulation, and good cause appearing, IT IS HEREBY ORDERED that the deadline to file a joint brief regarding any discovery dispute will be continued from February 24, 2017 to April 7, 2017.

IT IS SO ORDERED.