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Nature of Suit Code: 190
Nature of Suit: Other Contract Actions
Cause of Action: 28:1332 Diversity-Breach of Contract

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SAGASER, JONES & HAHESY

2445 Capitol Street, 2nd Floor 

Post Office Box 1632 

Fresno, California 93717-1632 

Telephone: (559) 233-4800 

Facsimile: (559) 233-9330 

Timothy Jones #119841 

John P. Kinsey #215916 

Attorneys for Defendant and Counterclaimant Foster Dairy Farms 

FREEMAN, FREEMAN & SMILEY LLP

3415 Sepulveda Boulevard, Suite 1200 

Los Angeles, CA 90034-6060 

Telephone: (310) 255-6100 

Gregory M. Bordo #156147 

John P. Godsil #174356 

Attorneys for Plaintiff and Counterdefendant Conopco, Inc. dba Unilever Ice Cream 

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT, EASTERN DISTRICT 

FRESNO DIVISION 

CONOPCO, INC., a New York 

corporation, doing business as 

UNILEVER ICE CREAM, 

 Plaintiff, 

v. 

FOSTER DAIRY FARMS, a California 

corporation; and DOES 1 through 50, 

inclusive, 

 Defendants. 

Case No. 1:05 CV 00400 OWW SMS 

STIPULATION AND ORDER 

FURTHER MODIFYING 

SCHEDULING CONFERENCE 

ORDER 

AND RELATED COUNTER-CLAIM. 

 WHEREAS, the Court issued the original Scheduling Conference Order in this 

case on August 16, 2005; 

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 WHEREAS, the Court issued an Order Modifying the Scheduling Conference 

Order on January 27, 2006; 

 WHEREAS, the Court issued an Order Further Modifying the Scheduling 

Conference Order on April 13, 2006; 

 WHEREAS, the Court issued an Order Further Modifying the Scheduling Order 

on July 6, 2006; 

 WHEREAS, the parties wish to conduct additional discovery, including, but not 

limited to, oral depositions of both parties and non-parties; 

 WHEREAS, as part of the January 27, 2006, Order Modifying the Scheduling 

Conference Order, Foster agreed to take several non-party depositions off-calendar and has had 

some difficulty rescheduling these depositions due to scheduling issues and the pending expert 

disclosure deadline; 

 WHEREAS, the parties believe that additional discovery is needed in order for 

the parties’ experts to adequately prepare their expert reports; 

 WHEREAS, the parties have had difficulty scheduling party and non-party 

depositions, due to scheduling issues of the witnesses and counsel prior to the current expert 

disclosure deadline; 

 WHEREAS, the current deadline for disclosure of expert witnesses is 

September 15 2006; 

 WHEREAS, counsel for Unilever has suffered personal bereavement affecting 

and impacting the current scheduling deadlines; 

 WHEREAS, due to the above issues, the parties do not believe they will be able 

to complete sufficient discovery in order to enable their potential expert witnesses to 

adequately prepare their expert reports prior to the deadline for disclosure of expert witnesses; 

 WHEREAS, the parties seek only minor modifications to the current Scheduling 

Order that will not affect the current trial date of March 13, 2007. 

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 IT IS HEREBY STIPULATED, by and between Unilever and Foster, through 

their respective counsel, that the following dates be revised from the Court’s July 6, 2006, 

Order Further Modifying the Scheduling Conference Order to the following dates: 

 1. The expert disclosure deadline shall be moved from September 15, 

2006, to September 22, 2006; 

 2. The deadline for disclosure of supplemental expert witnesses shall be 

moved from October 16, 2006, to October 30, 2006; 

 3. The deadline for the parties to complete all discovery pertaining to nonexperts shall be moved from October 30, 2006, to November 7, 2006; 

 4. The deadline for the parties to complete all discovery pertaining to 

experts shall be moved from November 9, 2006, to November 22, 2006; 

 5. The deadline for the filing of all Non-Dispositive Pre-Trial Motions, 

including any discovery motions, shall be moved from November 20, 2006, to December 6, 

2006; 

 6. The deadline for the filing of all Dispositive Motions shall remain as 

currently scheduled on December 11, 2006; 

 7. The Pre-Trial Conference scheduled for February 6, 2007, at 11:00 a.m. 

before the Honorable Oliver W. Wanger, United States District Judge shall be maintained. 

 8. The trial date scheduled for March 13, 2007, at 9:00 a.m. before the 

Honorable Oliver W. Wanger, United States District Judge shall be maintained; 

 9. The parties agree that “good cause” exists for the above modifications to 

the Scheduling Order; 

 10. The parties reserve their right to seek further modification of the 

Scheduling Conference Order, if necessary. 

DATED: September 12, 2006 SAGASER, JONES & HAHESY 

By /s/ Timothy Jones 

 Timothy Jones, Attorneys for Defendant 

 and Counterclaimant 

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DATED: September 12, 2006 FREEMAN, FREEMAN & SMILEY LLP 

By /s/ John P. Godisil 

 John P. Godsil, Attorneys for Plaintiff and 

Counterdefendant 

 IT IS SO ORDERED. 

DATED: _9/13/ 2006 __/s/ Oliver W. Wawnger_________ 

 The Honorable Oliver W. Wanger 

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