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Nature of Suit Code: 190
Nature of Suit: Other Contract Actions
Cause of Action: 28:1332 Diversity-Contract Default

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IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

ARCH INSURANCE COMPANY,

Plaintiff, No. 2:12-cv-0617 KJM KJN

v.

SIERRA EQUIPMENT RENTAL, INC.,

et al.

Defendants. ORDER

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Presently pending before the court is a motion to compel filed by plaintiff Arch

Insurance Company. (Dkt. No. 78.) The motion seeks to compel defendant Carolyn S. Scarola,

as Trustee of the Dry Creek Ranches Trust (the “Trust”) to (1) permit inspection of documents

and things responsive to certain document requests contained in plaintiff’s Requests for

Production to the Trust served on July 20, 2012, and (2) produce a witness for deposition in

accordance with plaintiff’s Notice of Deposition of the Trust pursuant to Fed. R. Civ. P. 30(b)(6)

served on October 18, 2012. (Dkt. Nos. 78, 82.) A hearing on the motion was initially noticed

for January 17, 2013, and plaintiff and defendant Trust filed their joint statement and supporting

documentation regarding the motion on January 10, 2013, in accordance with Local Rule 251. 

(Dkt. No. 79, 82.) However, during a brief telephonic conference with counsel for plaintiff and

defendant Trust on January 16, 2013, the hearing was continued until February 21, 2013 to allow

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the parties additional time to resolve their discovery dispute and resolve certain issues related to

the bankruptcy filings by some of the other defendants. (Dkt. No. 85.) To date, the parties have

not filed a supplemental joint statement apprising the court of the status of the motion to compel.

In light of the above, IT IS HEREBY ORDERED that:

1. No later than Tuesday February 19, 2013, at 12:00 p.m., plaintiff and defendant

Trust shall file a joint statement identifying specifically what issues, within the scope of the

presently pending motion to compel, remain for resolution, if any. Unless pertinent to any

development in their negotiations and meet-and-confer efforts, the parties need not submit further

briefing regarding the remaining substantive issues that have already been briefed in the initial

joint statement. Failure to timely file the joint statement will result in an order denying the

motion to compel without prejudice. 

2. In the alternative, if the parties have resolved their dispute regarding issues

within the scope of the presently pending motion to compel, plaintiff shall file a notice

withdrawing the motion no later than Tuesday February 19, 2013, at 12:00 p.m.

IT IS SO ORDERED. 

DATE: February 15, 2013

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KENDALL J. NEWMAN

UNITED STATES MAGISTRATE JUDGE

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