Murray v. Kohl's Department Stores, Inc. ( 2019 )

] || David V. Roth, Esq. (State Bar No. 194648) dvr@manningllp.com 2 || Frank M. La Fleur, Esq. (State Bar No. 213438) pau eg ce 3 NNIN ELLROD, RAMIREZ, TRESTER LLP 4 || One California Street, Suite 900 San Francisco, California 94111 5 || Telephone: (415) 217-6990 Facsimile: (415) 217-6999 6 Attorneys for Defendant, 7||KOHL’S DEPARTMENT STORES, INC. 8 9 || Hank G. Greenblatt, Esq. DREYER BABICH BUCCOLA 10 |} WOOD CAMPORA, LLP 20 Bicentennial Circle 11 || Sacramento, CA 95828 Tel: 916-379-3500 12]|Fax: 916-379-3599 ' Attorney for Plaintiff PHILLIP MURRAY 15 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 16 EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA alo 18 || PHILLIP MURRAY, Case No.: 2:18-ev-2312 MCE CKD 19 Plaintiff, HON. MORRISON C. ENGLAND, JR. 20 Vv. STIPULATION AND ORDER TO MODIFY SCHEDULING ORDER |} KOHL'S DEPARTMENT STORES, INC., a Delaware Corporation, and 22 || DOES 1 through 25, inclusive, 23 Defendants. 24 25 Pursuant to Local Rule 143 the parties stipulate and ask the Court to Order 26 || that the scheduling order entered on August 24, 2018 (ECF No. 4) be modified by 27 || extending the discovery and dispositive motion deadlines by approximately 6 28 || months, to February 10, 2020 and August 10, 2020, respectively. ] "The district court is given broad discretion in supervising the pretrial phase 2 || of litigation." Johnson v. Mammoth Recreations, Inc., 975 F. 2d 604, 607 □□□ Cir. 3 || 1992)(citation and internal quotation marks omitted). Rule 16(b) provides that "[a] 4 || schedule may be modified only for good cause and with the judge's consent." Fed. 5 ||R. Civ. P. 16(b)(4). "The schedule may be modified ‘if it cannot reasonably be met 6 || despite the diligence of the party seeking the extension." Zivkovic v. Southern 7 \| California Edison Co., 302 F. 3d 1080, 1087 (9® Cir. 2002) (quoting Johnson, 975 8 || F. 2d at 607). 9 Good cause exists for this extension. The parties are communicating well and 10 || there is a high degree of cooperation. After a face-to-face meet and confer =| 11]|conference, the parties agreed that the requested extension was appropriate in light 12 || of plaintiff's on-going, related workers compensation matter coupled with plaintiff's 13 || on-going treatment and the indeterminate status of plaintiff's need for future surgery. 14 || The extension will allow the parties to continue to collaborate on resolving these 15 |] undetermined factors, take the plaintiff's deposition, and position this case for 16 || alternative dispute resolution, either private mediation, the Voluntary Dispute 17 || Resolution Program, or settlement conference. 18 || /// 19 || /// 20 || /// 21 |} /// 22 || /// 23 /// 24 /// 25 || /// 26 || /// 27 || /// 28 || /// ] For these reasons, the parties ask the Court to extend the discovery deadline 2 || to February 10, 2020, and the dispositive motion deadline to August 10, 2020. 3 4 IT IS SO STIPULATED. 5 6||/DATED: August 6, 2019 DREYER BABICH BUCCOLA WOOD 4 CAMPORA, LLP 8 9 . By: /8/ Hank Greenblatt 10 Hank Greenblatt =) Attorneys for Plaintiff, PHILLIP MURRAY 12 13 ||DATED: August 6, 2019 MANNING & KASS BE 14 ELLROD, RAMIREZ, TRESTER LLP I 15 Z| 16 3 By: /s/ David V. Roth 17 David V. Roth 18 Attorneys for Defendant, 19 KOHL'S DEPARTMENT STORES, INC. 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 ] ORDER 2 The discovery deadline is extended to February 10, 2020, and the dispositive 3 || motion deadline is extended to August 10, 2020. 4 IT IS SO ORDERED. 5 || Dated: August 8, 2019 7 ( at _ LOX □ MORRISON C. ENGLAT } 8 UNITED STATES DISTRIC Gop 9 10 5 11 12 fe 13 15 16 = 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28