Munoz v. Home Depot USA, Inc. ( 2020 )

1 GJALMYENSN M &. FHIANNLLEOYN, L, LJRP. , Bar No. 214096 2 BRANDON P. RAINEY, Bar No. 272341 One Walnut Creek Center 3 100 Pringle Avenue, Suite 500 Walnut Creek, CA 94596 4 Telephone: (925) 210-2800 Facsimile: (925) 945-1975 5 Attorneys for Defendants 6 Haier US Appliance Solutions, Inc., d/b/a GE Appliances, and 7 Home Depot USA, Inc. 8 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 9 EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 10 ) Case No. 2:20-cv-00210-TLN-DB 11 ROLANDO MUNOZ and JOANNA ) FRAIRE, ) STIPULATION AND ORDER 12 ) Plaintiffs, ) 13 ) vs. ) 14 ) HOME DEPOT USA, INC.; HAIER US ) 15 APPLIANCE SOLUTIONS, INC. dba GE ) APPLIANCES, and DOES 1 to 50, ) 16 inclusive, ) ) 17 Defendants. ) ) 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 1 2 PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that, pursuant to Local Rule 143, Plaintiffs Rolando Munoz 3 and Joanna Fraire and Defendants Haier US Appliance Solutions, Inc., d/b/a GE Appliances 4 (“GEA”) and Home Depot USA, Inc. (“Home Depot”) have stipulated to continue the fact 5 discovery, expert disclosure and rebuttal expert designation deadlines set in the Court’s initial 6 pretrial scheduling order by three months (Dkt. 5). Good cause exists for the extension of those 7 deadlines as a result of the coronavirus public health crisis, which has limited and will continue 8 to limit the parties’ abilities to conduct discovery. See Fed. R. Civ. P. 16(b); Johnson v. 9 Mammoth Recreations, Inc., 975 F.2d 604, 609 (9th Cir. 1992). Therefore, the parties 10 respectfully request that the Court modify the deadlines in its initial pretrial scheduling order 11 such that fact discovery will close on December 18, 2020, expert disclosures will be made by 12 February 22, 2021, and rebuttal experts will be designated by March 30, 2021. 13 Dated: March 26, 2020 GLYNN & FINLEY, LLP 14 JAMES M. HANLON, JR. BRANDON P. RAINEY 15 One Walnut Creek Center 100 Pringle Avenue, Suite 500 16 Walnut Creek, CA 94596 17 By /s/ Brandon P. Rainey Attorneys for Defendants 18 Home Depot USA, Inc. and Haier US Appliance Solutions, Inc. dba 19 GE Appliances 20 Dated: March 26, 2020 21 BOHM LAW GROUP, INC. LAWRENCE A. BOHM 22 VICTORIA L. GUTIERREZ 4600 Northgate Boulevard, Suite 210 23 Sacramento, CA 95834 24 By /s/ Victoria L. Gutierrez Attorneys for Plaintiffs 25 Joanna Fraire and Rolando Munoz 26 27 28 1 2 Good cause having been established to continue the discovery deadlines in the Court’s 3 initial pretrial scheduling order (Dkt. 5), the Court hereby GRANTS the parties’ stipulation. Fact 4 discovery will close on December 18, 2020, expert disclosures will be made by February 22, 5 2021, and rebuttal experts will be designated by March 30, 2021. 6 IT IS SO ORDERED. 7 DATED: March 26, 2020 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28