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Nature of Suit Code: 110
Nature of Suit: Insurance
Cause of Action: 28:1332 Diversity-Insurance Contract

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STIPULATION RE: FILING OF AMENDED COMPLAINT AND FOR EXTENSION OF TIME UNDER SCHEDULING ORDER

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Richard E. Spoonemore, Pro Hac Vice

Eleanor Hamburger, Pro Hac Vice

SIRIANNI YOUTZ SPOONEMORE HAMBURGER PLLC

3101 Western Avenue, Suite 350 

Seattle, WA 98121 

Tel. (206) 223-0303 

Email: rspoonemore@sylaw.com 

Email: ehamburger@sylaw.com 

Attorneys for Plaintiffs 

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 

EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 

CORLYN DUNCAN and BRUCE DUNCAN, 

individually and on behalf of all others similarly 

situated, 

 Plaintiffs, 

 v. 

THE ALIERA COMPANIES, INC., f/k/a ALIERA 

HEALTHCARE, INC., a Delaware corporation; and 

TRINITY HEALTHSHARE, INC., a Delaware 

corporation, 

 Defendants. 

Civil Case No. 2:20-CV-00867-TLN-KJN

[Assigned to the Hon. Troy L. Nunley] 

STIPULATIONAND ORDER RE: 

FILING OF AMENDED 

COMPLAINT AND FOR AN 

EXTENSION OF TIME UNDER THE 

INITIAL PRETRIAL SCHEDULING 

ORDER

Action Filed: April 28, 2020 

STIPULATION RE: FILING OF AMENDED COMPLAINT AND FOR AN 

EXTENSION OF TIME UNDER THE INITIAL PRETRIAL SCHEDULING ORDER 

Plaintiffs Corlyn Duncan and Bruce Duncan (“Plaintiffs”) and Defendants The Aliera 

Companies Inc. (“Aliera”) and Trinity Healthshare, Inc. (“Trinity”) (collectively, the “Parties”), 

by and through their undersigned counsel, hereby enter into the following stipulation to (a) permit 

Plaintiffs to amend their Complaint and (b) to modify the Court’s April 28, 2020 Initial Pretrial 

Scheduling Order (the “Scheduling Order”). The parties request the Court enter an Order 

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permitting the Plaintiffs to file the Amended Complaint attached as Appendix A in redline format 

and modifying the Scheduling Order as follows: 

WHEREAS, Plaintiffs filed their Class Action Complaint against Defendants in the 

United States District Court for the Eastern District of California, Case No. 2:20-cv-867-TLNKJN, on or about April 28, 2020. Plaintiffs served both Defendants Aliera and Trinity with the 

Complaint on April 29, 2020; 

WHEREAS, the Court issued the Scheduling Order on April 28, 2020, which states, in 

relevant part, that the Parties shall confer as required by Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 26(f) 

within sixty (60) days of service of the Complaint. (Dkt. 3, § III.) The current deadline for the 

Parties to confer is June 29, 2020; 

WHEREAS, Defendants Aliera and Trinity each filed a Motion to Dismiss, or 

alternatively, Compel Arbitration, on June 10, 2020, in response to Plaintiffs’ Complaint. Both 

Motions to Dismiss are set for hearing on August 20, 2020; 

WHEREAS, good cause exists to allow Plaintiffs to file the Amended Complaint adding 

an additional defendant, OneShare Health LLC, formerly known as Unity Healthshare LLC, and 

revising the Complaint to address issues raised by defendant Trinity in its Motion to Dismiss, 

pursuant to Fed. R. Civ. P. 15(a) and 16(b). Plaintiffs provided Defendants with a draft of the 

proposed Amended Complaint. After they reviewed the Amended Complaint, defendants 

consented to its filing. This filing is timely under the Scheduling Order; 

WHEREAS, good cause exists to continue the Parties’ deadline to confer under Rule 

26(f) until sixty (60) days after service of the additional defendant, so that all defendants may 

participate in a single Rule 26(f) conference; 

WHEREAS, the Parties stipulate and agree that Defendants Aliera and Trinity’s 

respective Motions to Dismiss Plaintiffs’ Complaint will be taken off calendar upon the filing of 

Plaintiffs’ Amended Complaint, and Defendants’ deadline to respond to Plaintiffs’ Amended 

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Complaint will be twenty-one (21) days after service of the Amended Complaint upon OneShare 

Health LLC; 

WHEREAS, the Parties have not previously requested an extension of time under the 

Scheduling Order to confer as required by Rule 26(f); 

NOW, THEREFORE, the Parties, by and through their counsel of record, hereby 

stipulate and request that this Court find good cause to (a) permit Plaintiffs to file the Amended 

Complaint attached in Appendix A; (b) set Defendants Aliera and Trinity’s deadline to file a 

responsive pleading at twenty-one (21) days after service of the Amended Complaint on OneShare 

Health LLC; and (c) modify the Scheduling Order and continue the deadline to confer under 

Rule 26(f) until sixty (60) days after the additional defendant is served.

Dated: June 26, 2020 SIRIANNI YOUTZ 

SPOONEMORE HAMBURGER PLLC 

 By: /s/ Eleanor Hamburger 

 Eleanor Hamburger

Attorneys for Plaintiffs 

CORLYN DUNCAN and BRUCE DUNCAN 

The filer, Eleanor Hamburger, attests that the other 

signatories listed, on whose behalf the filing is 

submitted, concur in the filing’s content and have 

authorized the filing.

 

Dated: June 26, 2020 BURR & FORMAN LLP 

 By: /s/ Alan D. Leeth 

 Alan D. Leeth 

Attorneys for Defendant 

THE ALIERA COMPANIES INC. 

Dated: June 26, 2020 BAKER & HOSTETLER LLP 

 By: /s/ Elizabeth M. Treckler 

 Elizabeth M. Treckler

Attorneys for Defendant 

TRINITY HEALTHSHARE, INC.

 

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ORDER 

Pursuant to the stipulation of the Parties, and finding good cause thereon, the Court orders 

that Plaintiffs may file their Amended Complaint; that Defendants Aliera and Trinity shall have 

twenty-one (21) days from the date of service of the Amended Complaint on OneShare Health 

LLC to file any responsive pleading; and that Section III of the Initial Pretrial Scheduling Order 

(Dkt. 3) shall be modified to extend the Parties’ deadline to confer under Federal Rule of Civil 

Procedure 26(f) until sixty (60) days after the additional defendant in the Amended Complaint is 

served. 

IT IS SO ORDERED. 

DATED: June 26, 2020 

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