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Nature of Suit Code: 350
Nature of Suit: Motor Vehicle Personal Injury
Cause of Action: 28:2671 Federal Tort Claims Act

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McGREGOR W. SCOTT

United States Attorney

KELLI L.TAYLOR

Assistant United States Attorney

Office of the United States Attorney

Eastern District of California

501 I Street, Suite 10-100

Sacramento, CA 95814

PHONE: 916-554-2741

FAX: 916-554-2900

Attorneys for Defendants 

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 

LISA M. COFIELD and MICHAEL ) Case No. 2:06-CV-01798 

COFIELD, )

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Plaintiffs, )

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v. ) 

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UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, )

UNITED STATES POSTAL SERVICE, )

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Defendants. )

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Plaintiff Lisa Cofield and Defendants United States of America and United States Postal

Service (collectively “Defendants”), by and through undersigned counsel, hereby stipulate to the

following revised trial and case dates in this action and respectfully request that the Court so

approve.

Good cause exists for this stipulation based on the following:

1. The parties are attempting to settle this action prior to the expenditure of

additional substantial sums on expert witness disclosures and depositions. The court did not

previously scheduled a date for the settlement conference for this action.

2. We have been informed that Judge Hollows is not available until after February

1st, 2008 to conduct an early settlement conference in this case. Judge Brennan is available, and

agreeable, to conduct an ADR for this case in January 2008. The parties likewise agree that

STIPULATION RE: CASE SCHEDULE

AND ORDER THEREON

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Judge Brennan could conduct the ADR, which we currently anticipate will occur within the first

two weeks of January. 

2. No prior continuances have been requested in this action.

3. Currently, Plaintiff’s expert disclosures are due on December 14th, 2007 and

Defendants’ are due on December 29th, 2007. The parties seek to attempt to settle the action

prior to the costly expenditures associated with the expert reports and subsequent deposition.

4. It is not possible to continue the current expert discovery cutoff date without also

continuing the current pretrial motion filing deadline, and the corresponding pretrial conference

and trial date.

Based on the above, the parties request the following revised case dates:

Event Old Date New Date

Ps’ Expert Disclosures Due 12/14/07 1/14/08

Ds’ Expert Disclosure Due 12/29/07 1/29/08

MTC Discovery Cutoff 1/12/08 2/12/08

Statement Law/Motion Due 1/28/07 2/28/08

Discovery Cutoff 2/12/08 3/12/08

Motion Cutoff 4/12/08 5/12/08

Final Pretrial Conference 5/12/08 6/09/08 at 2:00 p.m.

Settlement Conference TBD

Trial (10:30 a.m.); 7 days 8/12/08 no change

Except as specified herein, the dates and language of the court’s February 14, 2007 original

Scheduling Conference Order remain unchanged.

Respectfully submitted,

McGREGOR W. SCOTT

United States Attorney

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/s/ Kelli L. Taylor Dated: December 7, 2007 KELLI L. TAYLOR

Assistant United States Attorney

For Defendant

/s/_John Jefferson Dated: December 6, 2007 JOHN JEFFERSON

Dreyer Babich Bucolla and Callahan

Attorney for Plaintiff

Of Counsel:

JOSEPH R. DOYLE

United States Postal Service

National Tort Center

PO Box 66640

St. Louis, Missouri 63166-6640

Tel: (314) 872-5154

Fax: 202-406-4623

ORDER

The Court has reviewed the reasons stated by counsel and finds that good legal

cause exists for the alteration of the scheduling conference order as requested. The

request and stipulation is therefore granted.

IT IS SO ORDERED.

December 7, 2007

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