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Nature of Suit Code: 442
Nature of Suit: Civil Rights Employment
Cause of Action: 28:451 Employment Discrimination

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BEYER, PONGRATZ & ROSEN

3230 Ramos Circle

Sacramento, CA 95827

(916) 369-9750

A PROFESSIONAL CORPORATION

David P.E. Burkett, SBN 241896

Chambord Benton-Hayes, SBN 278970

350 University Avenue, Suite 200

Sacramento, California 95825

TEL: 916.929.1481

FAX: 916.927.3706

Attorneys for Defendant SACRAMENTO MUNICIPAL UTILITY DISTRICT

Exempt from Filing Fees Pursuant to Government Code § 6103 

Beyer, Pongratz & Rosen

Ralph C. Lee, SBN 258608

3230 Ramos Circle

Sacramento, CA 95827

TEL: 916.369.9750

FAX: 916.369.9760

Attorney for Plaintiff LAMONT WILLIAMS

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT, EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

LAMONT WILLIAMS, an individual, 

 Plaintiff, 

 v.

SACRAMENTO MUNICIPAL UTILITY 

DISTRICT a.k.a. SMUD; and DOES 1 

through 20, inclusive,

 Defendants.

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CASE NO.: 2:14-CV-02187-WBS-EFB

JOINT STIPULATION AND 

[PROPOSED] ORDER FOR ORDER 

TO MODIFY SCHEDULING ORDER

(SUBJECT TO COURT APPROVAL)

Complaint Filed: October 24, 2014

Plaintiff LAMONT WILLIAMS (“Plaintiff”) and Defendant SACRAMENTO 

MUNICIPAL UTILITY DISTRICT (“Defendant”), through their respective undersigned 

counsel, hereby respectfully submit the following Joint Stipulation and (Proposed) Order 

to Modify the Court’s February 12, 2015 Status (Pretrial Scheduling) Order.

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BEYER, PONGRATZ & ROSEN

3230 Ramos Circle

Sacramento, CA 95827

(916) 369-9750

STIPULATION

WHEREAS, the Court issued a Scheduling Order on February 11, 2015 and filed 

February 12, 2015 (ECF No. 9), as modified by the district judge's subsequent February 

3, 2016 order (ECF No. 16 [modified expert disclosure deadline]);

WHEREAS, the Court’s Scheduling Order, dated February 11, 2015, requires the 

parties to complete fact discovery by March 18, 2016;

WHEREAS, Plaintiff and Defendant diligently pursued fact discovery prior to 

the agreement to pursue Voluntary Dispute Resolution. By May 2015, both parties 

propounded written discovery. On April 22, 2015, Defendant took the deposition of 

Plaintiff.

WHEREAS, Plaintiff and Defendant lost time while awaiting the pending 

Voluntary Dispute Resolution. On May 8, 2015, Plaintiff and Defendant agreed to 

mediate the case. On June 11, 2015, Plaintiff and Defendant executed a Stipulation to 

submit the case to Voluntary Dispute Resolution. However, by September 2015, the 

parties were still unable to choose a mediator due to the first two or three draws of 

mediators not being acceptable to one or both parties. Then, only by November 19, 

2015, were the parties able to coordinate a time for mediation. On November 19, 2015 

the mediation occurred, but no settlement agreement was reached.

WHEREAS, after the unsuccessful mediation, parties continued to diligently 

pursue discovery, including numerous meet and confer efforts by both parties. Both 

parties have propounded additional written discovery and produced additional 

documents.

WHEREAS, the current Scheduling Order does not allow the parties time to 

complete discovery. Plaintiff has requested a number of depositions, which have not 

been scheduled due to the schedule of Defendant, but which Defendant has repeatedly 

assured will be forthcoming; and if such depositions are to be scheduled now, they will 

be scheduled on the eve of the discovery deadline. Furthermore, Defendant has 

informed Plaintiff that it will be producing additional responsive documents, which 

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3230 Ramos Circle

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Plaintiff anticipates will call for additional discovery. Defendant will also be 

propounding final written discovery. Furthermore, the Parties are continuing to meet and 

confer regarding responses to written discovery from Plaintiff’s Special Interrogatories 

and Request for Production of Documents, which includes seventy-six separate 

document requests. Initially, Defendant produced over one-thousand one-hundred fortythree pages of documents. Then, after additional meet and confer efforts, Defendant 

produced approximately two-hundred pages of additional documents. Upon further meet 

and confer efforts with a focus on narrowing Plaintiff’s document requests, more than 

one-thousand additional documents will be produced shortly;

WHEREAS, the parties agree that good cause exists to extend all remaining 

deadlines in the Court’s Scheduling Order, dated February 11, 2015 (ECF No. 9), as 

modified by the district judge's subsequent February 3, 2016 order (ECF No. 16 

[modified expert disclosure deadline]), for at least an additional 120 days, as follows:

Current Date: New Date:

Discovery Completion: March 18, 2016 (p. 2, ln. 25) July 18, 2016

Rebuttal expert disclosure: March 1, 2016 (p. 2, ln. 22) July 1, 2016

Motions hearing cut-off: April 1, 2016 (p. 3, ln. 9) August 1, 2016

Final pre-trial conference: June 6, 2016 (p. 3, ln. 15) December 5, 2016

at 1:30 p.m.

Jury Trial: August 2, 1016 (p. 4, ln. 11) February 14, 2017

at 9:00 a.m.

DATED: February 16, 2016 BEYER, PONGRATZ & ROSEN

By: ______/s/_________________________

Ralph C. Lee,

Attorney for Plaintiff, 

LAMONT WILLIAMS

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BEYER, PONGRATZ & ROSEN

3230 Ramos Circle

Sacramento, CA 95827

(916) 369-9750

DATED: February 16, 2016 PORTER SCOTT

A PROFESSIONAL CORPORATION

By: ________/s/_______________________

Chambord Benton-Hayes

David P.E. Burkett

Attorney for Defendant,

SACRAMENTO MUNICIPAL UTILITY

DISTRICT

IT IS SO ORDERED.

Dated: February 17, 2016

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