Perez v. County of Sacramento ( 2022 )

1 LONGYEAR & LAVRA, LLP Van Longyear, CSB No.: 84189 2 Nicole M. Cahill, CSB No.: 287165 Ashley M. Calvillo, CSB No.: 340128 3 555 University Avenue, Suite 280 Sacramento, CA 95825 4 Phone: 916-974-8500 Facsimile: 916-974-8510 5 Emails: longyear@longyearlaw.com cahill@longyearlaw.com 6 calvillo@longyearlaw.com 7 Attorneys for Defendant, County of Sacramento 8 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 9 EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA SACRAMENTO DIVISION 10 11 KIMBERLY PEREZ, individually and as ) Case No.: 2:21-CV-00356-TLN-JDP successor-in-interest to Maurice Holley, Sr., ) 12 deceased; MAURICE HOLLEY, Jr., ) STIPULATION AND ORDER TO individually and as a successor-in-interest to ) MODIFY THE SCHEDULING ORDER 13 Maurice Holley, Sr.; ANGEL HOLLEY, ) individually and as a successor-in-interest to ) 14 Maurice Holley, Sr., deceased; MITRA ) HOLLEY, individually and as a successor-in- ) 15 interest to Maurice Holley, Sr. deceased, ) ) 16 Plaintiffs ) ) 17 v. ) ) 18 COUNTY OF SACRAMENTO, a public ) entity; and DOES 1-10, inclusive, ) 19 ) Defendants. ) 20 ) 21 Under Federal Rules of Civil Procedure 16(b)(1)(A) and Local Rule 143, the parties, 22 through counsel, stipulate to and hereby request a modification of this Court’s scheduling order. 23 Pursuant to the Court’s Order to Modify the Scheduling Order (ECF No. 12) the current schedule 24 is as follows: 25 o Fact discovery cut off: June 30, 2022 26 o Expert witness disclosure: July 25, 2022 27 o Supplemental expert disclosure: August 22, 2022 28 o Dispositive motion deadline: November 22, 2022 1 The parties in this case request an extension only as to the dispositive motion deadline. 2 The parties have engaged in settlement negotiations and request more time to conduct said 3 negotiations prior to the commencement of briefing on dispositive motions. Defendant County 4 intends to file a motion for summary judgment in the event the parties do not reach a mutually 5 agreeable settlement. Accordingly, the parties request the dispositive motion deadline be extended 6 sixty (60) days from the current deadline, January 22, 2023. 7 A scheduling order may only be modified upon a showing of good cause and by leave of 8 Court. Fed. R. Civ. Proc. 6(b)(1)(A); Johnson v. Mammoth Recreations, Inc., 975 F.2d 604, 609 9 (9th Cir. 1992). In considering whether a party moving for a schedule modification has good cause, 10 the Court primarily focuses on the diligence of the party seeking the modification. Johnson, 975 11 F.2d at 609. 12 The parties have acted diligently in prosecuting this case. Depositions of Plaintiffs have 13 been conducted, as has the deposition of the deputy involved in the shooting at issue. Expert reports 14 have been exchanged and filed and Defendant has deposed Plaintiffs’ police practices expert. 15 Written discovery has also been exchanged. The parties only request more time in order to 16 meaningfully engage in settlement negotiations before the costly process of preparing dispositive 17 motions begins. Additionally, this proposed modification will not delay trial, as no trial date has 18 been set. 19 For these reasons, good cause exists to modify the fact discovery cut off deadline. 20 IT IS SO STIPULATED. 21 22 Dated: November 10, 2022 LONGYEAR & LAVRA, LLP 23 By: /s/ Nicole M. Cahill 24 VAN LONGYEAR NICOLE M. CAHILL 25 ASHLEY M. CALVILLO Attorneys for Defendant, 26 County of Sacramento 27 28 1 Dated: November 10, 2022 LAW OFFICES OF TED A. GREENE, INC. 2 3 By: /s/ Michael Croddy [as authorized 11-10-22] TED A. GREENE 4 MICHAEL CRODDY Attorneys for Plaintiff, 5 Kimberly Perez 6 7 Dated: November 10, 2022 THE GORDON LAW FIRM 8 By: /s/ Chris Gordon [as authorized 11-8-22] 9 CHRIS GORDON Attorneys for Plaintiffs, 10 Maurice Holley, Jr., Angel Holley and Mitra Holley 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 1 ORDER 2 Good cause appearing, the parties’ stipulated request to modify the Court’s Scheduling 3 || Order (ECF No. 12) is GRANTED. 4 The relevant deadline is ordered as follows: 5 o Dispositive motion filing deadline: January 26, 2023 ° yy / DATED: November 10, 2022 “ } Le MMA 9 Troy L. Nunley ] 10 United States District Judge 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 STIPULATION AND [PROPOSED] ORDER TO MODIFY THE SCHEDULING ORDER- 4