Marshall v. PHI Air Medical, LLC ( 2021 )

1 James C. Fessenden (SBN 238663) E-Mail: jfessenden@fisherphillips.com 2 Kathryn M. Evans (SBN 323190) E-Mail: kmevans@fisherphillips.com 3 FISHER & PHILLIPS LLP 4747 Executive Drive, Suite 1000 4 San Diego, California 92121 Telephone: (858) 597-9600 5 Facsimile: (858) 597-9601 6 Attorneys for Defendant PHI Health, LLC (erroneously sued as 7 PHI Air Medical, LLC and PHI Health, LLC) 8 [Plaintiffs’ Counsel Continued on Next Page] 9 10 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 11 EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 12 JACQUELINE MARSHALL, CASE NO.: 2:20-cv-02475-MCE-DMC LANCE PHILLIPS, KRISTEN 13 KNOWLES, CHRIS ANDERSON, [Previously assigned to Lassen County KAYVAN MARSHALL, KANE Superior Court, Case No. 62973] 14 EDWARDS, JORDAN MOSER, KYLE EVANS, JENNA DIAZ, JOINT STIPULATION AND ORDER 15 TERRI MAURICIO, ERIK TO MODIFY PRE-TRIAL RUBALCAVA, JOANN LEE, SCHEDULING ORDER 16 TEISLEYE SMITH, JOSEPH LOEHNER, LAUREN YOUNG, State Complaint Filed: October 1, 2020 17 KELLI ROSSETTO-SCHRADER, Removal Filed: December 14, 2020 BRITNEY EWERS, TRACIE Trial Date: Not Set 18 STIERS, MARISSA JOHANSON, HEATHER IMHOF, CAROLE 19 COVEY, OLSA HAHN, STEPHANIE SWISHER, JOHN 20 SICKMAN, LAUREN SCHINDLER AND MARK HARMON, individuals, 21 on behalf of themselves and on behalf of themselves and on behalf of all 22 persons similarly situated, 23 Plaintiffs, 24 v. 25 PHI AIR MEDICAL, LLC, a Limited Liability Company; PHI HEALTH, 26 LLC, a Limited Liability Company; and Does 1 through 50, Inclusive, 27 Defendants. 28 1 Norman B. Blumenthal (SBN 068687) E-Mail: Norm@bamlawca.com 2 Kyle R. Nordrehaug (SBN 205975) E-Mail: Kyle@bamlawca.com 3 Nicholas J. De Blouw (SBN 280922) E-Mail: DeBlouw@bamlawca.com 4 Victoria B. Rivapalacio (SBN 275115) E-Mail: Victoria@bamlawca.com 5 Piya Mukherjee (SBN 274217) E-Mail: Piya@bamlawca.com 6 Charlotte E. James (SBN 308441) E-Mail: Charlotte@bamlawca.com 7 Aparajit Bhowmil (SBN 248066) E-Mail: aj@bamlawca.com 8 BLUMENTHAL NORDREHAUG BHOWMIK DE BLOUW LLP 2255 Calle Clara 9 La Jolla, CA 92037 Telephone: (858) 551-1223 10 Facsimile: (858) 551-1232 11 Attorneys for Plaintiffs Jacqueline Marshall, Lance Phillips, Kristen 12 Knowles, Chris Anderson, Kayvan Marshall, Kane Edwards, Jordan Moser, Kyle Evans, 13 Jenna Diaz, Terri Mauricio, Erik Rubalcava, Joann Lee, Teisleye Smith, Joseph Loehner, 14 Lauren Young, Kelli Rossetto-Schrader, Britney Ewers, Tracie Stiers, Marissa 15 Johanson, Heather Imhof, Carole Covey, Olsa Hahn, Stephanie Swisher, John 16 Sickman, Lauren Schindler and Mark Harmon 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 1 IT IS HEREBY STIPULATED AND AGREED, between the parties 2 through their counsel of record as follows: 3 WHEREAS, on December 15, 2020 this Court entered an Initial Pre-Trial 4 Scheduling Order outlining the deadlines for discovery, motion practice, and trial 5 readiness. ECF No. 3. 6 WHEREAS, the parties recently agreed to pursue mediation with Mark 7 Rudy, which is currently scheduled for July 27, 2021. 8 WHEREAS, the parties wish to conserve resources for settlement by 9 postponing further formal discovery pending the results of mediation. 10 Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 16(b)(4) allows that a case management 11 schedule “may be modified only for good cause and with the judge’s consent.” See 12 Johnson v. Mammoth Recreations, Inc., 975 F.2d 604, 608 (9th Cir. 1992). Similar 13 requests to amend a scheduling order to allow for mediation have been approved 14 in this District. See, e.g., Brisbin v. Calmat Co., No. 1:11-CV-00568-AWI, 2013 15 WL 3322698, at *1 (E.D. Cal. July 1, 2013). 16 Good cause having been shown, the parties respectfully request that the 17 Court modify its Pre-Trial Scheduling Order, ECF No. 3, subject to the Court’s 18 availability, to continue the following deadlines by 180 days to allow the parties to 19 complete discovery and motion practice in a timely manner, pending the results of 20 mediation: Event Original Deadline Requested Deadline 21 Deadline to complete February 12, 2021 August 11, 2021 22 Rule 26(f) conference 23 Deadline to complete December 21, 2021 June 19, 2022 all discovery, except 24 for expert discovery 25 First expert disclosure February 18, 2022 August 17, 2022 deadline 26 Second expert March 21, 2022 September 17, 2022 27 disclosure deadline 28 1 Deadline to file joint April 20, 2022 October 17, 2022 2 notice of trial readiness (if dispositive motions 3 are not heard) 4 Deadline to file all June 16, 2022 December 13, 2022 dispositive motions 5 6 IT IS SO STIPULATED. 7 8 Dated: February 11, 2021 Respectfully submitted, 9 FISHER & PHILLIPS LLP 10 11 By: lsl Kathryn M. Evans 12 James C. Fessenden Kathryn M. Evans 13 Attorneys for Defendant PHI Health, LLC (erroneously sued as 14 PHI Air Medical, LLC and PHI Health, LLC) 15 Dated: February 11, 2021 BLUMENTHAL NORDREHAUG 16 BHOWMIK DE BLOUW LLP 17 18 By: lsl Piya Mukherjee Norman B. Blumenthal 19 Kyle R. Nordrehaug Nicholas J. De Blouw 20 Victoria B. Rivapalacio Piya Mukherjee 21 Charlotte E. James Aparajit Bhowmil 22 Attorneys for Plaintiffs Jacqueline Marshall, Lance Phillips, 23 Kristen Knowles, Chris Anderson, Kayvan Marshall, Kane Edwards, 24 Jordan Moser, Kyle Evans, Jenna Diaz, Terri Mauricio, Erik Rubalcava, Joann 25 Lee, Teisleye Smith, Joseph Loehner, Lauren Young, Kelli Rossetto- 26 Schrader, Britney Ewers, Tracie Stiers, Marissa Johanson, Heather Imhof, 27 Carole Covey, Olsa Hahn, Stephanie Swisher, John Sickman, Lauren 28 Schindler and Mark Harmon 1 ATTESTATION REGARDING ELECTRONIC SIGNATURES 2 I, Kathryn M. Evans, attest that all other signatories to this document, on whose behalf 3 this filing is submitted, concur in the filing’s content and have authorized this filing. I declare 4 under penalty of perjury, under the laws of the United States of America and the State of 5 California, that the foregoing is true and correct. 6 7 Kathryn M. Evans 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 9 EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 10 11 JACQUELINE MARSHALL, CASE NO.: 2:20-cv-02475-MCE-DMC LANCE PHILLIPS, KRISTEN 12 KNOWLES, CHRIS ANDERSON, [Previously assigned to Lassen County KAYVAN MARSHALL, KANE Superior Court, Case No. 62973] 13 EDWARDS, JORDAN MOSER, KYLE EVANS, JENNA DIAZ, ORDER TO MODIFY PRE-TRIAL 14 TERRI MAURICIO, ERIK SCHEDULING ORDER RUBALCAVA, JOANN LEE, 15 TEISLEYE SMITH, JOSEPH State Complaint Filed: October 1, 2020 LOEHNER, LAUREN YOUNG, Removal Filed: December 14, 2020 16 KELLI ROSSETTO-SCHRADER, Trial Date: Not Set BRITNEY EWERS, TRACIE 17 STIERS, MARISSA JOHANSON, HEATHER IMHOF, CAROLE 18 COVEY, OLSA HAHN, STEPHANIE SWISHER, JOHN 19 SICKMAN, LAUREN SCHINDLER AND MARK HARMON, individuals, 20 on behalf of themselves and on behalf of themselves and on behalf of all 21 persons similarly situated, 22 Plaintiffs, 23 v. 24 PHI AIR MEDICAL, LLC, a Limited Liability Company; PHI HEALTH, 25 LLC, a Limited Liability Company; and Does 1 through 50, Inclusive, 26 Defendants. 27 28 1 ORDER 2 Having reviewed the Plaintiffs’ and Defendant’s Stipulated Request, the 3 Court grants the request and ORDERS that the Pre-Trial Scheduling Order, ECF 4 No. 3, is modified as follows: 5 Event Original Deadline Requested Deadline 6 Deadline to complete February 12, 2021 August 11, 2021 7 Rule 26(f) conference 8 Deadline to complete all December 21, 2021 June 19, 2022 discovery, except for 9 expert discovery 10 First expert disclosure February 18, 2022 August 17, 2022 deadline 11 Second expert disclosure March 21, 2022 September 17, 2022 12 deadline 13 Deadline to file joint April 20, 2022 October 17, 2022 notice of trial readiness 14 (if dispositive motions are 15 not heard) 16 Deadline to file all June 16, 2022 December 13, 2022 dispositive motions 17 18 The parties are ordered to file a Joint Notice of Trial Readiness not later than 19 thirty (30) days after receiving this Court's ruling on the last filed dispositive 20 motion. The parties are to set forth in their Notice of Trial Readiness, the 21 appropriateness of special procedures, whether this case is related to any other 22 case(s) on file in the Eastern District of California, the prospect for settlement, their 23 estimated trial length, any request for a jury, and their availability for trial. After 24 review of the parties' Joint Notice of Trial Readiness, the Court will issue an order 25 that sets forth new dates for a final pretrial conference and trial. 26 IT IS SO ORDERED. 27 DATE: February 18, 2021 28