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Nature of Suit Code: 365
Nature of Suit: Personal Injury - Product Liability
Cause of Action: 28:1332 Diversity-Product Liability

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FURTHER STIPULATION AND PROPOSED ORDER REGARDING EXPERT DISCLOSURE AND DISCOVERY CUT-OFF DATES 

Case No.: 1:06-CV-00604-LJO-DLB 

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HARDIN LLP ATTORNEYS AT LAW

SAN FRANCISCO

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SCHIFF HARDIN LLP 

JEFFREY R. WILLIAMS (CSB #84156) 

KATHLEEN A. STIMELING (CSB #209226) 

One Market, Spear Street Tower, 32nd Floor 

San Francisco, CA 94105 

Telephone: (415) 901-8700 

Facsimile: (415) 901-8701 

Attorneys for Defendant 

ITW FOOD EQUIPMENT GROUP, erroneously sued herein as 

HOBART CORPORATION 

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 

EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 

BASSAM MASARWEH, 

 Plaintiff, 

 v. 

HOBART CORPORATION and DOES 1 

through 100, Inclusive , 

 Defendants. 

Case No.: 1:06-CV-00604-LJO-DLB 

FURTHER STIPULATION AND 

PROPOSED ORDER REGARDING 

EXPERT DISCLOSURE AND 

DISCOVERY CUT-OFF DATES 

Plaintiff Bassam Masarweh and defendant ITW Food Equipment Group, 

erroneously sued herein as Hobart Corporation, by and through their respective counsel, 

hereby agree and stipulate as follows: 

1. WHEREAS the current expert witness disclosure and report exchange date 

in this action is June 8, 2007; 

2. WHEREAS the parties wish to conduct further inspections and testing of 

the subject electric mixer prior to the aforementioned expert witness disclosure; 

3. WHEREAS the parties have diligently and repeatedly met and conferred 

with the third party workers’ compensation insurance carrier that controls and possesses 

the subject electric mixer for the purpose of further inspection and testing; 

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4. WHEREAS the third party workers’ compensation insurance carrier only 

recently agreed to make the subject electric mixer available for inspection by the parties 

and their experts in Berkeley, California on June 12, 2007; 

5. WHEREAS the parties have been unable to inspect the subject electric 

mixer any sooner than June 12, 2007; 

6. WHEREAS the parties seek to be relieved of their expert discovery 

obligations and the burden of the June 8, 2007 expert discovery exchange before further 

inspection of the subject electric mixer on June 12, 2007; and 

7. WHEREAS the parties require additional time to conduct fact discovery; 

The parties stipulate to the following and respectfully request that the Court issue 

the following Orders: 

1. The expert disclosure date of June 8, 2007 and the supplemental expert 

disclosure date of July 9, 2007 are vacated and hereby continued to July 12, 2007 and 

August 13, 2007 respectively; 

2. Non-expert discovery in this action shall conclude the sixtieth (60th) day 

before trial, i.e. by November 9, 2007, as referenced at page 9 of the Court’s 

September 16, 2006 Scheduling Conference Order; 

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3. Should the third party workers’ compensation carrier file a complaint in 

intervention in this action the parties, including the carrier, reserve their rights to further 

address the Court regarding the deadlines set forth in the Court’s September 16, 2006 

Scheduling Conference Order, including the trial date of January 8, 2008. 

DATED: June 6, 2007 Respectfully submitted, 

SCHIFF HARDIN LLP 

By ___________/s/_________________

 Jeffrey R. Williams 

Attorneys for Defendant 

ITW FOOD EQUIPMENT GROUP, 

erroneously sued herein as HOBART 

CORPORATION 

DATED: June 6, 2007 LAW OFFICES OF BRYMAN & APELIAN 

By ___________/s/_________________

 Andrew C. Bryman 

Attorneys for Plaintiff 

BASSAM MASARWEH 

ORDER

PURSUANT TO STIPULATION, IT IS SO ORDERED. 

Date: June 8, 2007 __/s/ Dennis L. Beck__________ 

 United States Magistrate Judge 

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