STIPULATION AND [PROPOSED] ORDER MODIFYING SCHEDULING ORDER

ALLISON CLAIRE, Magistrate Judge.

Whereas, the parties in the above actions consolidated for pre-trial purposes have been engaged in discovery of both class and merits issues;

Whereas, the parties requested and the Court previously granted extensions of the expert, pre-trial, and trial deadlines by orders dated July 6, 2017 and February 6, 2018 (ECF Nos. 59 and 84, respectively), in order to allow for pleadings motion practice and for the parties to resolve discovery issues;

Whereas, on January 29, 2019, the Court denied Plaintiffs' motion for class certification (ECF No. 116);

Whereas, Plaintiffs applied ex parte and the Court has scheduled a Status Conference for April 15, 2019 (the "4/15/19 Status Conference") to consider (1) whether plaintiff Alpha Polishing, Inc. should be granted leave to file a renewed motion for class certification; (2) whether plaintiff(s) should be allowed to communicate with putative class members to develop additional evidence in support of such a motion or permissive joinder under Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 20; (3) possible modifications to the pretrial scheduling order; (4) the possibility of separate trials; (5) whether the court should set a settlement conference; and (6) any other issues the parties believe should be addressed at this time; and

Whereas, the parties agree that, because the current deadline for initial disclosures of experts will run prior to the 4/15/19 Status Conference, an additional extension of the expert and rebuttal expert disclosures deadlines by 30 days, to April 29, 2019, or to an alternate date to be set by the Court and the parties at or following the April 15, 2019 Status Conference, is reasonable pending the outcome of the Status Conference, and will promote judicial economy, avoid duplicative law and motion and discovery proceedings, and streamline adjudication of these matters;

IT IS HEREBY STIPULATED by the parties, through their counsel of record, that the current expert disclosure deadlines shall be extended as follows:4945004945001240208728

Except as modified above, the prior scheduling order remains unchanged.

SIGNATURE ATTESTATION

I, Jeanette Barzelay, am the ECF user whose identification and password are being used to file the foregoing Stipulation and [Proposed] Order Modifying Scheduling Order. In compliance with Local Rules, I hereby attest that all party signatories hereto concur in this filing.

ORDER

Pursuant to stipulation, and good cause appearing, the Court hereby orders:

(1) The time to make expert disclosures and exchange expert reports is extended to April 29, 2019;

(2) The time to make rebuttal expert disclosures and exchange rebuttal expert reports is extended to May 20, 2019;

(3) The time to serve written discovery requests to experts is extended to June 10, 2019; and

(4) The date for the close of expert discovery is extended to July 15, 2019.

IT IS SO ORDERED.