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Nature of Suit Code: 110
Nature of Suit: Insurance
Cause of Action: 28:1332 Diversity-Insurance Contract

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ABBEY, WEITZENBERG, WARREN 

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EMERY, P.C. 

100 Stony Point Road, Suite 200, P.O. Box 1566, Santa Rosa, CA 95402-1566 

Telephone: (707) 542-5050 Facsimile (707) 542-2589

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STIPULATION AND [PROPOSED] ORDER SETTING INITIAL CASE MANAGEMENT CONFERENCE 

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ABBEY, WEITZENBERG, WARREN & EMERY 

MITCHELL B. GREENBERG, Esq., State Bar 114878 

JAIMEE A. MODICA, Esq., State Bar 226872 100 Stony Point Road, Suite 200 

Post Office Box 1566 

Santa Rosa, CA 95402-1566 

Telephone: 707-542-5050 

Facsimile: 707-542-2589 

E-Mail: mgreenberg@abbeylaw.com E-Mail: jmodica@abbeylaw.com 

Attorneys for Defendants 

ARMORY STUDIOS, LLC, a California limited liability company; PETER ACWORTH, an individual 

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 

ATAIN SPECIALTY INSURANCE 

COMPANY, a Michigan corporation, 

 Plaintiff, 

v. 

ARMORY STUDIOS, LLC, a California 

limited liability company; PETER 

ACWORTH, an individual, 

 Defendants. 

Case No.: 15-cv-05124-JD

STIPULATION AND [PROPOSED] 

ORDER SETTING CASE 

MANAGEMENT CONFERENCE 

AND OTHER FILING DATES 

The Honorable James Donato 

This Stipulation and [Proposed] Order is filed by Plaintiff Atain Specialty 

Insurance Company and Defendants Armory Studios, LLC and Peter Acworth, 

through their respective counsel of record. The purpose of this Stipulation and 

Proposed Order is to request that the Court set an Initial Case Management 

Conference, along with the required pre Conference filings, to replace those matters 

which were originally set, but vacated, when this case was reassigned. 

This action was filed on November 9, 2015. The case was originally 

assigned to Magistrate Judge Maria-Elena James. Magistrate Judge James issued 

an Initial Case Management Scheduling Order with ADR Deadlines (Docket # 5) 

on November 9, 2015. Plaintiff Atain Specialty Insurance Company then filed a 

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100 Stony Point Road, Suite 200, P.O. Box 1566, Santa Rosa, CA 95402-1566 

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Declination to Proceed Before U.S. Magistrate Judge (Docket # 7) on November 

16, 2015. The case was reassigned to Judge James Donato by Order dated 

November 17, 2015 (Docket # 9). The reassignment Order provides, in part, that 

“[A]ll dates presently scheduled are vacated and motions should be renoticed for 

hearing before the judge to whom the case has been reassigned. Briefing schedules, 

ADR compliance deadlines, and other case deadlines remain unchanged.” 

Defendants Armory Studios, LLC and Peter Acworth filed a motion to 

dismiss the action, under FRCP 12(b)(1), or alternatively, to stay the action, on 

January 19, 2016 (Docket # 12-14) . The hearing on that motion is set for February 

24, 2016. 

 The original Initial Case Management Scheduling Order set the Initial Case 

Management Conference for February 11, 2016, and also set the last day to file the 

Rule 26(f) Report, and to complete initial disclosures, for February 4, 2016. The 

parties read this Court’s reassignment Order as vacating the February 11 Initial 

Case Management Conference, as well as the February 4 deadline for filing the 

Rule 26(f) Report and completion of the initial disclosures. However, it does not 

appear that any new dates have been set by the Court to replace those that were 

vacated by the Court’s November 17, 2015 Order. 

The parties believe that Court economy supports that the Case Management 

Conference, and the deadlines for filing the Rule 26(f) Report, and to complete the 

initial disclosures, be set on dates after the Court rules on the Motion to Dismiss or 

Stay. If the Court grants the Motion and dismisses the action, no further 

proceedings will be necessary. If the Court grants the Motion and stays the action, 

again, no further proceedings will be necessary until the stay is lifted in the future. 

In either case, the Court and the parties will have spent time in connection with the 

Case Management Conference, and associated filings, which could have been 

avoided had the Conference and deadlines been set after the ruling on the motion. 

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If the Court denies the Motion to Dismiss or Stay, the Case Management 

Conference can take place thereafter (with the associated filings due in advance). 

Accordingly, the parties respectfully request that the Court (1) set the Case 

Management Conference on a date after February 24, 2016, and (2) set the filing 

deadline for the Rule 26(f) Report and the completion date for the initial disclosures 

on a date after February 24, 2016, but before the Case Management Conference 

date. 

IT IS SO STIPULATED. 

Dated: January 21, 2016 ABBEY, WEITZENBERG, WARREN & EMERY 

 By: /s/ Mitchell B. Greenberg 

 MITCHELL B. GREENBERG 

Attorneys for Defendants, 

ARMORY STUDIOS, LLC, a 

California limited liability company; 

PETER ACWORTH, an individual 

Dated: January 21, 2016 ARCHER NORRIS 

 By: /s/ GailAnn Y. Stargardter 

 GAILANN Y. STARGARDTER 

ANDREW JAMES KING 

Attorneys for Plaintiff, 

ATAIN SPECIALTY INSURANCE 

COMPANY, a Michigan corporation 

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ORDER 

Pursuant to the Stipulation of the parties, the Court orders that: 

1. The parties’ Initial Case Management Conference is set for March 16, 2016 at 

1:30 p.m. in Courtroom 11, 19th Floor, Philip Burton Federal Building, 450 Golden Gate Ave., 

San Francisco, CA 94102. 

2. The last day to file the Rule 26(f) Report, complete initial disclosures, and file a 

Joint Case Management Statement is March 9, 2016. 

Dated: January 29, 2016 

_______________________________ 

 James Donato, U.S. District Judge 

 

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