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Nature of Suit Code: 791
Nature of Suit: Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA)
Cause of Action: 28:1132 E.R.I.S.A.

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SEDGWICK, DETERT, MORAN & ARNOLD LLP 

REBECCA A. HULL Bar No. 99802 

One Market Plaza 

Steuart Tower, 8th Floor 

San Francisco, California 94105 

Telephone: (415) 781-7900 

Facsimile: (415) 781-2635 

Attorneys for Defendants Electronic Data Systems 

Corporation Long Term Disability Plan (incorrectly sued as 

Electronic Data Systems Corporation Welfare Benefit Trust Long 

Term Disability Plan), Electronic Data Systems Corporation 

Benefits Administration Committee (incorrectly sued as Benefits 

Administration Committee of Electronic Data Systems Corporation 

Welfare Benefit Trust), and Metropolitan Life Insurance Company 

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 

EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 

Pursuant to Local Rules of Court 6-144(a) and 83-143, defendants Electronic Data 

Systems Corporation Long Term Disability Plan (“Plan”), Electronic Data Systems Corporation 

Benefits Administration Committee (“Committee”), Metropolitan Life Insurance Company 

(“MetLife”), and plaintiff Masooma Dastagir, through their attorneys of record, hereby stipulate 

and agree, and request that the Court order, that all Defendants will respond to the complaint filed 

herein on or before May 25, 2006. As discussed more particularly below, the responsive pleading 

MASOOMA DASTAGIR, 

Plaintiff, 

v. 

ELECTRONIC DATA SYSTEMS 

CORPORATION WELFARE BENEFIT 

TRUST LONG TERM DISABILITY 

PLAN, BENEFITS ADMINISTRATION 

COMMITTEE OF ELECTRONIC DATA 

SYSTEMS CORPORATION WELFARE 

BENEFIT TRUST, METROPOLITAN 

LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY, 

Defendants. 

CASE NO. 2:05-cv-02573 MCE PAN (JFM) 

STIPULATION ORDER FOR EXTENSION 

OF TIME FOR RESPONSE TO 

COMPLAINT AND FOR SUBMISSION OF 

JOINT STATUS REPORT 

PROPOSED ORDER ON STIPULATION 

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date previously was extended for a period of 30 days, to the current date of May 10, 2006. 

The Plan and the Committee were served with the summons and complaint on March 20, 

2006. Their responsive pleadings were originally due on April 10, 2006, which date was extended 

30 days by stipulation, to May 10, 2006. As of the date of that extension, plaintiff had not yet 

served her summons and complaint on MetLife, which agreed to appear voluntarily pursuant to 

that stipulation and to likewise respond to Plaintiff’s complaint on or before May 10, 2006. 

The undersigned defense counsel, who were substituted as counsel for the Plan and 

Committee on April 18, 2006, have not yet received all of the relevant documents, including the 

full benefit plan documents, that are needed in order to fully assess the claims made by plaintiff 

and file responsive pleadings on behalf of all defendants. The defendants have been diligently 

searching for and gathering the necessary documents, but have not yet been able to locate all of 

them. 

Due to the delay in obtaining the relevant documents, defendants have requested and 

plaintiff is agreeable to a short additional extension of time to plead. The parties’ proposed 

further 15-day extension of the date for filing responsive pleadings, to May 25, 2006, will permit 

defense counsel to obtain and review the relevant documents, prior to formulating the response to 

the complaint. 

The parties further stipulate, and request that the Court approve, that the date for the 

initial joint status report (currently due on May 19, 2006) be extended so that defense counsel will 

have the benefit of the relevant documents and be able to participate in a meaningful manner. 

Likewise, plaintiff’s counsel will be best able to participate meaningfully after receipt of the 

defendants’ responsive pleadings. Accordingly, the parties hereby stipulate and agree that the 

date for submitting the joint status report shall be extended by 30 days, to June 19, 2006. There 

have been no prior extensions of the joint status report date. 

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IT IS SO AGREED AND STIPULATED. 

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DATED: May ____, 2006 Law Offices of Jesse S. Kaplan 

By: 

Jesse S. Kaplan 

Attorney for Plaintiff 

DATED: May ____, 2006 Sedgwick, Detert, Moran & Arnold LLP 

By: 

Rebecca A. Hull 

Attorney for Defendants 

Electronic Data Systems Corporation Long Term 

Disability Plan, Electronic Data Systems Corporation 

Benefits Administration Committee, Metropolitan Life 

Insurance Company 

Upon the stipulation of the parties, IT IS SO ORDERED. 

DATED: May 10, 2006 

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MORRISON C. ENGLAND, JR 

UNITED STATES DISTRICT JUDGE 

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