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Nature of Suit Code: 195
Nature of Suit: Contract Product Liability
Cause of Action: 28:1332 Diversity-Breach of Contract

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4831-7576-0412.1 1:13-cv-00573-AWI-GSA

STIPULATION TO MODIFY SCHEDULING CONFERENCE ORDER; ORDER THEREON

LEWI

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BRISBOI

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BISGAAR

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& SMITH 

LEWIS BRISBOIS BISGAARD & SMITH LLP

DAVID S. WORTHINGTON, SB# 73233

MELISSA M. WHITEHEAD, SB# 262123

2850 Gateway Oaks Drive, Suite 450

Sacramento, California 95833

Telephone: 916.564.5400

Facsimile: 916.564.5444

GUBLER & ABBOTT, LLP

E. WARREN GUBLER, SB# 109317

BRETT ABBOTT, SB# 246905

1110 N. Chinowth Street

Visalia, California 93291

Telephone: (559) 625-9600

Facsimile: (559) 0625-9605

Attorneys for Defendant MAF 

INDUSTRIES, INC.

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA – FRESNO DIVISION

PRIDE PACKING CO., a Washington 

corporation,

Plaintiff,

vs.

MAF INDUSTRIES, INC.; and DOES 

1 through 10, inclusive,

Defendant.

CASE NO. 1:13-cv-00573-AWI-GSA

STIPULATION TO MODIFY 

SCHEDULING CONFERENCE 

ORDER AND CONTINUE TRIAL; 

ORDER THEREON

Doc. 21

IT IS HEREBY STIPULATED between Plaintiff PRIDE PACKING CO. and 

Defendant MAF INDUSTRIES, INC., as follows:

In order to facilitate the additional discovery needed to be completed by both 

parties in order to prepare this case for trial or mediation, the parties jointly request 

that this Court modify its pretrial Scheduling Conference Order and re-set discovery 

and motion deadlines, as well as trial dates. Specifically, the parties stipulate and 

agree that an extension of all dates is necessary because:

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4831-7576-0412.1 2 1:13-cv-00573-AWI-GSA

STIPULATION TO MODIFY SCHEDULING CONFERENCE ORDER; ORDER THEREON

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1. Additional documents and witnesses were identified at the recent 

depositions of witnesses in Yakima, WA, which were previously unknown to 

counsel for both parties, and which will need to be located and produced/deposed.

2. Key witnesses, parties, and experts for both Plaintiff and defense have been

required to take time away from assisting in the litigation due to a substantial 

harvest in cherry season, June-July 2014.

3. The parties are hopeful that once the summer harvest is completed and the 

additional witnesses deposed and documents produced, the parties will be in a 

position to negotiate a potential business resolution.

For the above reasons, the parties stipulate and request the Court modify its 

pretrial Scheduling Conference Order as follows: 

1. Non-Expert Discovery Deadline: September 29, 2014

2. Expert Disclosure Deadline: October 30, 2014

3. Supplemental Expert Disclosure: November 13, 2014

4. Expert Discovery Cut-Off: January 2, 2015

5. Non-dispositive Motion Filing: January 8, 2015

6. Dispositive Motion Filing: February 2, 2015

7. Pretrial Conference: April 16, 2015

8. Trial: May 26, 2015

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4831-7576-0412.1 3 1:13-cv-00573-AWI-GSA

STIPULATION TO MODIFY SCHEDULING CONFERENCE ORDER; ORDER THEREON

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& SMITH 

For the reasons outlined above, the parties agree that there is good cause for 

this modification, as both parties require additional discovery to be completed in 

order to prepare this matter for trial and/or mediation. Such discovery cannot be 

completed by the currently set deadline of July 1, 2014.

DATED: June 30, 2014 LEWIS BRISBOIS BISGAARD & SMITH LLP

By: /s/ _______________________________

Melissa M. Whitehead

Attorneys for Defendant TOLEDO 

ENGINEERING CO., INC. 

DATED: June 30, 2014 RIDOUT LYON + OTTOSON, LLP

By: /s/

GARY C. OTTOSON

DAYNA C. CARTER

CINDY T. NGUYEN

Attorneys for Plaintiff PRIDE PACKING, 

CO.

ORDER

The Court has reviewed the parties’ stipulation set forth above. Doc. 21. The 

Court notes that this is the parties’ third request to modify the Court’s scheduling 

order. See Docs. 17, 19, 21. The Court has previously advised the parties that 

repeated requests to modify the scheduling order are strongly disfavored and further 

reminds the parties that all requests to modify the scheduling order must be based 

upon a showing of good cause. Doc. 20. In this instance, the Court adopts the 

parties’ stipulation with some changes to accommodate the Court’s schedule.

According, the scheduling order is modified as follows:

1. Non-Expert Discovery Deadline: September 29, 2014

2. Expert Disclosure Deadline: October 30, 2014

3. Supplemental Expert Disclosure: November 13, 2014

4. Expert Discovery Cut-Off: January 2, 2015

5. Nondispositive Mtn. Filing Deadline: January 8, 2015

6. Dispositive Motion Filing Deadline: February 5, 2015

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STIPULATION TO MODIFY SCHEDULING CONFERENCE ORDER; ORDER THEREON

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7. Pretrial Conference: April 30, 2015 at 10:00 a.m.

8. Trial: June 30, 2015 at 8:30 a.m.

The pretrial conference and trial will be heard before District Judge Anthony 

W. Ishii in Courtroom 2.

IT IS SO ORDERED.

Dated: July 3, 2014 /s/ Gary S. Austin 

 UNITED STATES MAGISTRATE JUDGE

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