STIPULATED MOTION AND ORDER TO CONTINUE EXPERT WITNESS REPORT DEADLINE

ROBERT S. LASNIK, District Judge.

Pursuant to LCR 7(d)(1) and LCR 10(g), Plaintiff Costco Wholesale Corporation ("Costco") and Defendant Arrowood Indemnity Company ("Arrowood"), by and through their attorneys of record, hereby submit this Stipulated Motion and [Proposed] Order to Continue the Expert Witness Report Deadline. The parties have met and conferred, and submit this Stipulated Motion in good faith.

DISCUSSION

By its Minute Order Setting Trial Date & Related Dates (ECF No. 13), the Court set this matter for trial on November 5, 2018 and also established a case schedule of pretrial deadlines. On April 19, 2018, the Court entered the Parties' agreed extension of time for certain pretrial deadlines (ECF No. 19), including, among others, an extension of the deadline for expert witness reports from May 9, 2018 to June 20, 2018. On June 8, 2018, the Court entered the Parties' agreed extension of time for an extension of the deadline for expert witness reports from June 20, 2018 to July 5, 2018 (ECF No. 21). No other pretrial deadlines besides the deadline for expert witness reports were extended by this request.

To date, the Parties have engaged in substantial written discovery and have taken the depositions of several party witnesses. Arrowood has taken the deposition of three of Costco's witnesses and Costco has taken the deposition of two of Arrowood's witnesses. The Parties scheduled to take depositions of Costco's corporate designees in the case on June 27, 2018. The Parties agreed to move the depositions originally set for June 27, 2018 to July 17-19, 2018. These depositions may provide testimony for the Parties' experts to rely upon in their respective reports. In light of and to facilitate the orderly conduct of the upcoming depositions along with the schedules of witnesses, the Parties stipulate and jointly move the Court for a brief continuance of the expert witness report deadline for purposes of completing depositions to Monday, July 23, 2018.

The Parties do not request that the Court continue the trial date or any other dates except those relating to the expert witness deadlines provided herein. Accordingly, the Parties respectfully request that this Stipulated Motion be approved and that the Court agree to continue the expert witness report deadline to Monday, July 23, 2018.

IT IS SO STIPULATED.

ORDER

IT IS HEREBY ORDERED that this Stipulated Motion to continue the expert witness report deadline is GRANTED. The new date for the expert witness report deadline is Monday, July 23, 2018.