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Nature of Suit Code: 440
Nature of Suit: Other Civil Rights
Cause of Action: 42:1981 Civil Rights

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JOHN L. BURRIS, Esq. (SBN 69888)

BEN NISENBAUM, Esq. (SBN 222173) 

JAMES COOK, Esq. (SBN 300212) 

K. CHIKE ODIWE, Esq. (SBN 315109) 

BRANDON YEE, Esq. (SBN 344583) 

BURRIS NISENBAUM CURRY & LACY

7677 Oakport Street, Suite 1120 

Oakland, California 94621 

Telephone: (510) 839-5200 

Facsimile: (510) 839-3882 

john.burris@johnburrislaw.com 

bnisenbaum@gmail.com 

james.cook@johnburrislaw.com 

chike.odiwe@johnburrislaw.com 

brandon.yee@johnburrislaw.com 

Attorneys for Plaintiff

RYDER KLENK 

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

RYDER KLENK,

 

 Plaintiff,

vs. 

NATHAN MENDES, 

 Defendant. 

CASE NO.: 2:22-cv-01366-DAD-DMC

STIPULATION AND ORDER TO MODIFY 

SCHEDULING ORDER

TO THE HONORABLE COURT:

 By and through their counsel of record in this action, Plaintiff RYDER KLENK (“Plaintiff”), 

by and through his attorneys, and defendant, NATHAN MENDES (“Defendant”), by and through his 

attorneys, hereby stipulate and jointly request that the Honorable Court grant the parties leave to 

modify the scheduling order, MODIFIED SCHEDULING ORDER, a copy of which is attached as a 

table to the instant stipulation. 

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GOOD CAUSE STATEMENT

1. The parties conferred about a proposed stipulation to modify the scheduling on 

January 16, 2024, due to Defendants’ CITY OF ETNA and NATHAN MENDES’S Motions to 

Dismiss that was resolved before the Honorable Dale A. Drozd on December 20, 2023. (Dkt. 63). 

2. Defendant NATHAN MENDES was personally served the Third Amended Complaint 

(“TAC”) on September 9, 2023, by and through the City of Etna. The parties were waiting for the 

Court’s deliberation of Defendants’ CITY OF ETNA and NATHAN MENDES’S Motions to 

Dismiss, which was resolved on December 20, 2023, Defendant NATHAN MENDES was directed 

by the Court to answer the TAC within 21 days. Defendant NATHAN MENDES answered the TAC 

on January 10, 2024. (Dkt. 64). 

3. The close of fact discovery is February 12, 2024, and limited discovery and production 

has been exchanged between Plaintiff and Defendant. 

4. Additionally, neither Plaintiff nor Defendant has had the opportunity to discuss 

scheduling or notice any depositions for this matter. There is always the possibility that, depending 

on what information is learned or if a witness refuses to answer a question, a witness may need to be 

deposed multiple times.

5. Both parties anticipate numerous depositions and the Defendant anticipates that 

information learned from Plaintiff, including after additional documents are produced, will identify 

more witnesses that will then also need to be deposed. 

7. In light of the fact that Defendants CITY OF ETNA and NATHAN MENDES’S

motions to dismiss have recently been resolved, and NATHAN MENDES answering the TAC on 

January 10, 2024, as well as good cause shown, all key dates in this case are requested to be moved

per the parties proposed new schedule, subject to the Court’s approval. IT IS HEREBY 

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STIPULATED, by and between Plaintiff and Defendant, by and through their respective counsel, 

that:

The parties respectfully and jointly request that the Court modify the operative case 

management scheduling order(s) as follows:

Case Management Event: Prior-Operative 

Date-Deadlines 

(Dkt. 11) 

(Proposed) New DateDeadline:

Fact Discovery Cut-Off February 12, 2024 October 15, 2024

Last Day for Initial Expert 

Disclosures and Report 

Productions

March 13, 2024 November 15, 2024

Last Day for Expert Rebuttal

Disclosures and Report 

Production

May 1, 2024 January 13, 2025

Expert Discovery Cut-Off June 24, 2024 February 24, 2025

Last Day for Hearing Motions September 9, 2024 May 9, 2025

Settlement Conference August 24, 2023 December 9, 2024

Final Pretrial Conference February 25, 2025, at 1:30 p.m. June 24, 2025, at 1:30 p.m.

Trial (jury)(court)(length) April 28, 2025 October 27, 2025, at 9:00 a.m.

Dated: January 24, 2024 BURRIS NISENBAUM CURRY & LACY

 __/s/ Brandon Yee _ 

 Brandon Yee 

 Attorney for Plaintiff

 

 

LAURIA TOKUNAGA GATES & LINN, 

LLP

Dated: January 19, 2024 _/s/ Amanda Moyer

 Amanda Moyer 

 Attorney for Defendant 

 Nathan Mendes

 

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ORDER

The Court having reviewed the foregoing Stipulation, and good cause appearing therefore:

IT IS HEREBY ORDERED that the parties are granted leave to modify the scheduling order

as indicated above. 

Dated: January 24, 2024

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DENNIS M. COTA

UNITED STATES MAGISTRATE JUDGE

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