Filed: Dec. 22, 2016
Latest Update: Dec. 22, 2016
Summary: JOINT STIPULATION TO CONTINUE EXPERT DISCOVERY CUT-OFF DEADLINE; [PROPOSED] ORDER HAYWOOD S. GILLIAM, Jr. , District Judge . Pursuant to the Civil Local Rules of the United States District Court for the Northern District of California, the parties, Plaintiffs BRETT MACDONALD and AMALIA MACDONALD ("Plaintiffs"), and Defendant WELLS FARGO BANK, N.A. ("Wells Fargo"), through their counsel of record, hereby stipulate to the following: WHEREAS, on November 10, 2014, Plaintiff filed her Co
Summary: JOINT STIPULATION TO CONTINUE EXPERT DISCOVERY CUT-OFF DEADLINE; [PROPOSED] ORDER HAYWOOD S. GILLIAM, Jr. , District Judge . Pursuant to the Civil Local Rules of the United States District Court for the Northern District of California, the parties, Plaintiffs BRETT MACDONALD and AMALIA MACDONALD ("Plaintiffs"), and Defendant WELLS FARGO BANK, N.A. ("Wells Fargo"), through their counsel of record, hereby stipulate to the following: WHEREAS, on November 10, 2014, Plaintiff filed her Com..
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JOINT STIPULATION TO CONTINUE EXPERT DISCOVERY CUT-OFF DEADLINE; [PROPOSED] ORDER
HAYWOOD S. GILLIAM, Jr., District Judge.
Pursuant to the Civil Local Rules of the United States District Court for the Northern District of California, the parties, Plaintiffs BRETT MACDONALD and AMALIA MACDONALD ("Plaintiffs"), and Defendant WELLS FARGO BANK, N.A. ("Wells Fargo"), through their counsel of record, hereby stipulate to the following:
WHEREAS, on November 10, 2014, Plaintiff filed her Complaint in the above-captioned court against Defendants;
WHEREAS, on April 12, 2016, the Court issued a Scheduling Order, setting a jury trial for March 13, 2017 and the following trial related deadlines:
a. Fact Discovery Cutoff on September 13, 2016
b. Initial Expert Disclosures on September 27, 2016
c. Rebuttal Expert Disclosures on October 11, 2016
d. Expert Discovery Cutoff on October 25, 2016
e. Dispositive Motion Hearing Deadline on December 8, 2016 at 2:00 p.m.
f. Pretrial Conference on February 28, 2017 at 3:00 p.m.;
g. Jury Trial on March 13, 2017.
WHEREAS, on or around September 21, 2016, pursuant to the Parties stipulation to continue all deadlines in this matter, the Court ordered that Expert Discovery Cut-off be December 9, 2016;
WHEREAS, on or around November 10, 2016, the Parties submitted a stipulation to further extend the Expert Discovery Cut-Off and related disclosure deadlines, which the Court granted, setting the deadline to exchange Initial Expert Disclosures to December 9, 2016, Rebuttal Expert Disclosures to December 23, 2016 and Expert Discovery Cut-off to January 6, 2017;
WHEREAS, Plaintiffs submitted their Initial Expert Disclosure on December 9, 2016, disclosing the intent to use an expert to testify at trial on Plaintiffs' behalf;
WHEREAS, Defendant intends to designate a Rebuttal Expert by December 23, 2016 and will furnish the deferred rebuttal expert report within seven (7) calendar days of receipt of the transcript of the deposition of Plaintiffs' expert;
WHEREAS, given the holidays between December 23, 2016 and January 6, 2017, counsel for Plaintiffs and counsel for Defendant, along with the experts designated by the parties, are largely unavailable to prepare for depositions and take depositions until after January 3, 2017;
WHEREAS, the Parties request that the deadline to conduct all Expert Discovery be extended for three weeks, from January 6, 2017 to January 27, 2017 to allow the parties and their experts time to prepare for and take the depositions of the designated experts;
WHEREAS, no other deadlines in this matter will be affected by the requested continuance.
STIPULATION
The parties stipulate to and request a two-week continuance of the Expert Discovery Cut-off Deadline from January 6, 2017 to January 27, 2017.
ORDER
This Court, having received and reviewed the stipulation of the parties referenced immediately above, and finding good cause therefore, pursuant to the stipulation of the parties;
The expert discovery cut-off deadline is continued to January 27, 2017.
IT IS SO ORDERED.
