Soto v. County of Sacramento ( 2021 )

1 LONGYEAR & LAVRA, LLP Van Longyear, CSB No.: 84189 2 Nicole M. Cahill, CSB No.: 287165 3620 American River Drive, Suite 230 3 Sacramento, CA 95864 Phone: 916-974-8500 4 Facsimile: 916-974-8510 5 Attorneys for Defendants, County of Sacramento, Deputy Blake Grinder, 6 Deputy Kenneth Lloyd, Deputy John Higley, Deputy Andrew Garside, Sgt. Kelley Bunn, 7 Sgt. Gregory Johnson, Sgt. Charles Gailey and Sheriff Scott Jones 8 Jeremy I. Lessem, Esq. SBN: 213406 9 Lessem, Newstat & Tooson, LLP 3450 Cahuenga Blvd W., Ste 102 10 Los Angeles, CA 90068 T: 818-582-3087 11 F: 818-484-3087 12 Karen C. Joynt, SBN 206332 Law Office of Karen Joynt 13 222 S. Lake Ave., Ste. 300 Pasadena, CA 91101 14 Attorneys for Plaintiffs 15 XAVIER BECERRA, State Bar No. 118517 16 Attorney General of California ALBERTO L. GONZALEZ, State Bar No. 117605 17 Supervising Deputy Attorney General MATTHEW W. ROMAN, State Bar No. 267717 18 Deputy Attorney General JOHN C. BRIDGES, State Bar No. 248553 19 Deputy Attorney General 1300 I Street, Suite 125 20 P.O. Box 944255 Sacramento, CA 94244-2550 21 Telephone: (916)210-7529 Fax: (916)322-8288 22 Attorneys for Defendant California Highway Patrol 23 Officer Greg White 24 PORTER SCOTT A PROFESSIONAL CORPORATION 25 Carl L. Fessenden, SBN 161494 Suli A. Mastorakos, SBN 330383 26 350 University Ave., Suite 200 Sacramento, CA 95825 27 TEL: 916.929.1481 FAX: 916.927.3706 28 Attorneys for Defendant Patricia Robinson-Hard 1 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 2 EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA SACRAMENTO DIVISION 3 4 SILVIA SOTO, an individual, LATANYA ) Case No.: 2:19-cv-00910-TLN-DB ANDREWS, an individual, MARCELO M.S., ) 5 minor, and MARLENIE M.S., a minor, by and ) STIPULATED REQUEST TO MODIFY through their guardian ad litem, SILVIA ) SCHEDULING ORDER TO EXTEND 6 SOTO, in each case both individually and as ) THE DISPOSITIVE MOTION DEADLINE successors-in-interest to the ESTATE OF ) AND ORDER 7 MARSHALL MILES, Deceased, ) ) 8 Plaintiffs ) ) 9 v. ) ) 10 COUNTY OF SACRAMENTO, BLAKE ) GRINDER, KENNETH LLOYD, JOHN ) 11 HIGLEY, ISRAEL HERNANDEZ, FNU ) JENNINGS, ANDREW GARSIDE, GREG ) 12 WHITE, KELLEY BUNN, CHARLES ) GAILEY, SCOTT JONES and DOES 1 ) 13 through 100, inclusive, ) ) 14 Defendants. ) ) 15 Under Federal Rules of Civil Procedure 16(b)(1)(A) and Local Rule 143, the parties, 16 through counsel, stipulate to and hereby request a modification of this Court’s scheduling order. 17 Pursuant to the Court’s Initial Scheduling Order (ECF No. 4), the current schedule requires 18 dispositive motions to be filed no later than July 7, 2020. Expert discovery is required to be 19 completed “in a timely manner in order to comply with the Court’s deadline for filing dispositive 20 motions.” (ECF No. 4.) 21 The parties in this case previously requested to modify the scheduling order on December 22 30, 2020 to allow for additional time to conduct fact discovery. (ECF No. 53.) On February 1, 23 2021, the parties then sought an extension of one month for initial expert disclosures and 24 supplemental expert disclosures. (ECF No. 55.) Plaintiffs sought to modify the scheduling order 25 on the limited issue of obtaining samples from the Sacramento County Coroner’s Office on 26 February 23, 2021. (ECF No. 58.) The motion has not yet been ruled on. 27 A scheduling order may only be modified upon a showing of good cause and by leave of 28 1 Court. Fed. R. Civ. Proc. 6(b)(1)(A); Johnson v. Mammoth Recreations, Inc., 975 F.2d 604, 609 2 (9th Cir. 1992). In considering whether a party moving for a schedule modification has good 3 cause, the Court primarily focuses on the diligence of the party seeking the modification. Johnson, 4 975 F.2d at 609. 5 The parties have worked diligently in litigating this matter. The parties have conducted 6 numerous depositions in addition to multiple sets of written discovery. The parties have also 7 exchanged expert reports and are conferring regarding depositions of experts. The parties also 8 attended a mediation on December 16, 2020. The parties continue to engage in settlement 9 discussions and have scheduled another half-day mediation for May 26, 2021. In order to 10 accommodate expert depositions and the currently scheduled mediation, the parties request the 11 dispositive motion deadline be moved from July 7, 2021 to August 11, 2021. As no trial date is 12 set, this extension will not delay trial. The extension will allow sufficient time for the mediation 13 to go forward, expert depositions to be taken, and transcripts of those depositions received in order 14 to prepare dispositive motions. 15 For these reasons, good cause exists to modify the dispositive motion deadline. The parties 16 therefore agree and request the dispositive motion deadline be extended to August 11, 2021. 17 IT IS SO STIPULATED. 18 Dated: May 5, 2021 LONGYEAR & LAVRA, LLP 19 By: /s/ Nicole M. Cahill 20 VAN LONGYEAR NICOLE M. CAHILL 21 Attorneys for Defendants, County of Sacramento, Deputy Blake Grinder, 22 Deputy Kenneth Lloyd, Deputy John Higley, Deputy Israel Hernandez, Deputy Jacqueline 23 Jennings, Deputy Andrew Garside, Sgt. Kelley Bunn, Sgt. Charles Gailey and Sheriff Scott Jones 24 Dated: May 5, 2021 LESSEM, NEWSTAT & TOOSON, LLP 25 26 By: /s/ Jeremy I. Lessem [as authorized 5-4-21] JEREMY I. LESSEM 27 Attorneys for Plaintiffs 28 1 || Dated: May 5, 2021 LAW OFFICE OF KAREN JOYNT 2 By: _/s/Karen Joynt [as authorized 5-4-2] 3 KAREN JOYNT 4 Attorneys for Plaintiffs 5 Dated: May 5, 2021 OFFICE OF THE ATTORNEY GENERAL 6 By: _/s/Matthew W. Roman [as authorized 5-4-21 JOHN C. BRIDGES 7 MATTHEW W. ROMAN Attorneys for defendant 8 Officer White 9 || Dated: May 5, 2021 PORTER SCOTT 10 A PROFESSIONAL CORPORATION 1] By: _/s/ Suli Mastorakos [as authorized 5-4-21 CARL L. FESSENDEN 12 SULI A. MASTORAKOS Attorneys for Defendant 13 Patricia Robinson-Hard 14 15 16 17 18 ORDER 19 Good cause appearing, the parties’ stipulated request to modify the Court’s Scheduling 20 || Order (ECF No. 4) is GRANTED. 21 The parties may file dispositive motions no later than August 11, 2021. All other 22 || deadlines remain in effect. /) 23 ( 4 / 54 || DATED: May 5, 2021 “ \/ 7 Vn) 25 Troy L. Nunley ] 6 United States District Judge 27 28 -4