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Nature of Suit Code: 791
Nature of Suit: Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA)
Cause of Action: 29:1132 E.R.I.S.A.: Employee Benefits

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Trucker 

 Huss 

A Professional Corporation 

One Embarcadero Center, 12th Floor 

San Francisco, California 94111 

R. Bradford Huss, SBN 71303 

Angel L. Garrett, SBN 255682 

Dylan D. Rudolph, SBN 278707 

TRUCKER  HUSS 

A Professional Corporation 

One Embarcadero Center, 12th Floor 

San Francisco, California 94111 

Telephone: (415) 788-3111 

Facsimile: (415) 421-2017 

E-mail: bhuss@truckerhuss.com 

 agarrett@truckerhuss.com 

 drudolph@truckerhuss.com 

Joseph C. Faucher, SBN 137353 

TRUCKER  HUSS 

A Professional Corporation 

633 W. 5th Street, 26th Floor 

Los Angeles, California 90071 

Telephone: (213) 537-1016 

Facsimile: (213) 537-1020 

E-mail: jfaucher@truckerhuss.com 

Attorneys for Defendants 

SAFEWAY INC. and SAFEWAY BENEFIT 

PLANS COMMITTEE 

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 

SAN FRANCISCO 

DENNIS M. LORENZ, Individually and On 

Behalf of All Others Similarly Situated, 

 Plaintiff, 

 vs. 

SAFEWAY, INC.; SAFEWAY BENEFIT 

PLANS COMMITTEE; GREAT-WEST 

FINANCIAL RPS LLC; and DOES 1 through 

50, inclusive, 

 Defendants. 

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Plaintiff, Dennis M. Lorenz (“Plaintiff”), and Defendants, Safeway Inc. (“Safeway”) and 

Safeway Benefit Plans Committee (“Benefit Plans Committee”), collectively (“Defendants”), 

through their counsel, hereby stipulate and agree that: 

WHEREAS, the initial complaint was filed against Safeway Inc., the Benefits Plans 

Committee Safeway Inc. and Great-West Financial RFS LLC (“Great-West”) on August 25, 2016; 

WHEREAS, the Court dismissed the claims against Great-West with prejudice and 

consequently removed Great-West as a defendant in this action on March 13, 2017 (ECF No. 58); 

WHEREAS, the Rule 16(b) conference was held, and the Court then issued the current 

scheduling order on March 15, 2017 (ECF No. 60), setting the discovery, pre-trial and trial dates; 

WHEREAS, after the scheduling order was issued, Plaintiff filed a third amended complaint 

on March 31, 2017; 

WHEREAS, the Plaintiff and Defendants have exchanged certain initial disclosures, have 

engaged in written discovery and have been in the process of scheduling depositions; 

WHEREAS, the Parties have been working diligently and cooperatively to prepare this case 

for trial, while also pursuing their efforts in a manner designed to avoid imposing undue burdens or 

expenses on any of the Parties; 

WHEREAS, in light of the above and despite the Parties’ diligent efforts to cooperate, the 

Parties believe that the current schedule will not provide adequate time to complete discovery, 

expert disclosures, dispositive motions, and trial; 

WHEREAS, the Parties have not previously requested any extensions of the pretrial or 

trial dates in this case; 

WHEREAS, in the related case of Maria Karla Terraza v. Safeway Inc., et al. (No. 16-cv03994-JST) (see Docket No. 26), the Court entered an order providing for a ninety (90) day 

continuance of the deadlines for expert and fact discovery and to file dispositive motions (see ECF 

No. 108 in Terraza) on November 30, 2017; 

WHEREAS, the Court in the Terraza action also ordered that the next Case Management 

Conference be held on January 24, 2018, at 2:00 pm., the Pretrial Conference be held on September 

7, 2018, at 2 p.m. with the joint pretrial conference statement due on or before August 28, 2018, and 

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that trial shall commence on October 22, 2018, with eight (8) days reserved for trial; 

WHEREAS, the Court in this action also ordered that the next Case Management 

Conference be held on January 24, 2018, at 2:00 pm. (ECF No. 74.1) 

WHEREAS, the Parties have agreed that good cause exists for an order setting all the dates, 

including the pretrial and trial dates, to the dates set in in the Terraza action because the issues in 

these two actions overlap; 

NOW, THEREFORE, the Parties, through their respective counsel, hereby stipulate, subject 

to the approval of the Court, to the following schedule: 

March 22, 2018 Deadline to complete fact discovery 

April 12, 2018 Deadline for expert disclosures 

May 2, 2018 Deadline for expert rebuttal 

May 21, 2018 Deadline to complete expert discovery 

June 15, 2018 Deadline to file dispositive motions 

September 5, 2018 Deadline to file pretrial conference statement 

September __, 2018, at 2 p.m. Pretrial Conference 

October __, 2018 Trial (eight court days) 

 TRUCKER  HUSS 

Dated: December 15, 2017 By:/s/ R. Bradford Huss 

R. Bradford Huss 

Attorneys for Defendants SAFEWAY INC. and 

SAFEWAY BENEFIT PLANS COMMITTEE 

SCHNEIDER, WALLACE, COTTRELL, KONECKY, 

WOTKYNS, LLP 

Dated: December 15, 2017 By:/s/ Kyle Bates 

Kyle Bates 

Attorneys for Plaintiff, Dennis M. Lorenz 

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Pursuant to L.R. 5-1(i)(3) regarding signatures, I, R. Bradford Huss, attest that concurrence in the 

filing of this document has been obtained from each of the other signatories. 

/s/ R. Bradford Huss 

R. Bradford Huss 

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[PROPOSED] ORDER 

IT SO ORDERED. 

The Pretrial Conference shall be held on ___________________, 2018, at 2 p.m., and the 

trial shall commence on ________________, 2018, with eight (8) days reserved for trial. The 

parties shall file a joint pretrial conference statement on or before __________________. 

DATED: 

 Jon S. Tigar 

 Judge of the United States District Court 

September 7

October 22 August 28, 2018 December 18, 2017

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