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Nature of Suit Code: 442
Nature of Suit: Civil Rights Employment
Cause of Action: 42:2000e Job Discrimination (Employment)

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Case No. 5:15-cv-02026-NC

REQUEST FOR TELEPHONIC APPEARANCE

AT CMC; [PROPOSED] ORDER

1049921.1

Mark S. Spring, State Bar No. 155114

mspring@cdflaborlaw.com

Teresa W. Ghali, State Bar No. 252961

tghali@cdflaborlaw.com

CAROTHERS DISANTE & FREUDENBERGER LLP

900 University Avenue, Suite 200

Sacramento, California 95825

Telephone: (916) 361-0991

Facsimile: (916) 570-1958

Attorneys for Defendants

Comcast Corporation and Comcast Cable Communications

Management, LLC

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

SAN JOSE DIVISION

DAVIN MONTOYA,

Plaintiff,

vs.

COMCAST CORPORATION; COMCAST

CABLE COMMUNICATIONS

MANAGEMENT, LLC,

Defendants.

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Case No. 5:15-cv-02026-NC

Assigned for All Purposes To:

Magistrate Judge Nathanael Cousins

DEFENDANTS’ REQUEST FOR

TELEPHONIC APPEARANCE AT CASE

MANAGEMENT CONFERENCE;

[PROPOSED] ORDER

Date: March 23, 2016

Time: 10:00 a.m.

Ctrm: 7, 4th Floor

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REQUEST FOR TELEPHONIC APPEARANCE

AT CMC; [PROPOSED] ORDER

1049921.1

Pursuant to Civil L.R. 16-10(a), Defendants Comcast Corporation and Comcast Cable

Communications Management, LLC (“Defendants” or “Comcast”) hereby respectfully request that

the Court permit Mark S. Spring, lead counsel for Defendants, to appear by telephone at the Case

Management Conference set for Wednesday, March 23, 2016 at 10:00 a.m.. Mr. Spring is

scheduled to be on a prepaid, preplanned 5-day vacation in out of the country from March 19 to

March 23, 2016. Teresa W. Ghali, who is the second chair attorney for Defendants, will appear in

person at the March 23, 2016 CMC.

In the alternative, Defendants request the Court continue the Case Management Conference

by two weeks to April 6, 2016, in which case Mr. Spring can appear in person.

Defendants request leave to allow Mr. Spring to appear telephonically because (a) he will

be on a pre-planned trip out of the country at the time of the March 23, 2016 CMC, and (b) can

make himself available by telephone at that time.

At the time the parties jointly requested a continuance of the CMC from February 24, 2016

to March 23, 2016 (a request the Court subsequently granted), defense counsel did not realize that

the requested date fell on a date when Mr. Spring would be out of the country. Defense counsel

apologizes for this oversight. Defendants therefore request that the Court permit Mr. Spring to

appear telephonically, with second chair attorney, Teresa Ghali appearing in person on March 23,

2016. Plaintiff’s counsel has been informed of this request, and does not oppose it.

In the alternative, both lead counsel are available to personally appear for a CMC on April

6, 2016.

Dated: March 2, 2016 CAROTHERS DISANTE & FREUDENBERGER LLP

By: /s/ Mark S. Spring

Mark S. Spring

Attorneys for Defendants

Comcast Corporation and Comcast Cable Communications

Management, LLC

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REQUEST FOR TELEPHONIC APPEARANCE

AT CMC; [PROPOSED] ORDER

1049921.1

ALTERNATE PROPOSED ORDER

Defendants request that Mark S. Spring be permitted to appear telephonically at the Case

Management Conference on Wednesday, March 23, 2016 at 10:00 a.m. is denied. Instead the Case

Management Conference is rescheduled for __________ and Mr. Spring should appear in person at

that time.

IT IS SO ORDERED.

Dated: ___________________________________

U.S. MAGISTRATE JUDGE

NATHANAEL COUSINS

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