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Nature of Suit Code: 350
Nature of Suit: Motor Vehicle Personal Injury
Cause of Action: 28:1332 Diversity-Tort/Motor Vehicle (P.I.)

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Martin J. Kaufman (SB # 155672)

Kaufman Law, APC

2300 Westwood Blvd., 2nd Floor 

Los Angeles, California 90064

P: 213-239-9400 F: 213-239-9409

mjk@lawkaufman.com

Daniel M. O’Leary (SB # 175128)

Law Office of Daniel M. O’Leary

2300 Westwood Blvd., Suite 105

Los Angeles, California 90064

P: 310-481-2020 F: 310-481-0049

dan@danolearylaw.com

Lawyers for Plaintiff

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

BRANDON SMITH,

Plaintiff,

vs.

SDP TRUCKING, INC.

Defendants.

 

Case No. 1:19-CV-00211-DAD-JLT

STIPULATION EXTENDING 

NON-EXPERT DISCOVERY 

CUTOFF; PROPOSED ORDER 

THEREON

(Doc. 15)

TO THE HONORABLE COURT:

The parties, by and through their undersigned counsel, stipulate as follows:

The Court’s Scheduling Order sets the cutoff for non-expert discovery for March 

13, 2020. But the parties have been unable to take the depositions of the drivers of the 

two commercial trucks involved in the underlying collision. Defendant Wilshire 

Insurance Company intervened in this action on behalf of its now-defunct insured, SDP 

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Trucking, Inc., on October 23, 2019. Since that time, the parties have attempted to 

depose Nairan Singh, the driver of the SDP truck in the collision. Mr. Singh lives in 

Bakersfield, but has not cooperated with SDP’s insurer. His deposition has been set 

three times, although he has indicated that he will sit for a deposition as long as it can be 

set around his work schedule. He still works as a long-haul truck driver. 

Andres Jones, the driver of the truck in which plaintiff was a sleeping passenger 

at the time of the collision, lives in Connecticut. The parties initially determined that his 

deposition would follow Mr. Singh’s. This would allow the parties to depose plaintiff, 

who lives in Pennsylvania and plaintiff’s treating doctors, on the same trip as the one for 

Mr. Jones’s deposition. 

That initial plan has been changed and the parties are now planning to take the 

East Coast depositions in late March and early April, assuming the Court allows for an 

extension of the non-expert discovery cutoff. 

As a result, the parties request an extension of the non-expert discovery cutoff 

from March 13, 2020 to June 30, 2020. They do not request the extension of any other 

dates.

IT IS SO STIPULATED.

Dated: March 10, 2020 Kaufman Law, APC

By: /s/ Martin Kaufman (authorized 03/10/2020)

Martin Kaufman

Lawyers for Plaintiff

{continued next page]

Dated: March 10, 2020 Law Office of Daniel M. O’Leary

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 By: __/s/Daniel O’Leary (authorized 03/10/2020)__

 Daniel O’Leary

Lawyers for Plaintiff

Dated: March 11, 2020 Lewis Brisbois Bisgaard & Smith, LLP

 By: __ /s/ Joseph Owens (authorized 03/11/2020) 

 Joseph Owens

Lawyers for Defendant/Intervenor

Wilshire Insurance Company

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ORDER

Having considered the parties’ stipulated request and good cause appearing, the 

request to extend the non-expert discovery cutoff is GRANTED. The non-expert 

discovery cutoff is now June 30, 2020.

IT IS SO ORDERED.

Dated: March 12, 2020 /s/ Jennifer L. Thurston 

UNITED STATES MAGISTRATE JUDGE

CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE

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CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE BY U.S. MAIL

The undersigned hereby certifies that she is an employee of the Law 

Office of Daniel M. O’Leary and is a person of such age and discretion to be 

competent to serve papers:

That on March 11, 2020, she served a copy of STIPULATION 

EXTENDING NON-EXPERT DISCOVERY CUTOFF; PROPOSED 

ORDER THEREON by placing said copy in a postpaid envelope addressed to 

the person(s) hereinafter named, at the place(s) and address(es) stated below, 

which is/are the last known address(es), and by depositing said envelope and its 

contents in the United States Mail at Los Angeles, California.

Dana Alden Fox, Esq.

Joseph C. Owens, Esq. 

Lewis Brisbois Bisgaard & Smith, LLP

633 West 5th Street, Suite 4000

Los Angeles, CA 90071

Telephone: (213) 250-1800

Facsimile: (213) 250-7900

email: joseph.owens@lewisbrisbois.com 

 _______________

Carol Delgado

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