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

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No. 1:10-CV-00916-LJO-SKO 1

[PROPOSED] ORDER ON STIP. AND REQUEST 

TO CONTINUE SCHEDULING CONFERENCE

MANATT, PHELPS & PHILLIPS, LLP

BARRY W. LEE (Bar No. CA 088685)

E-mail: BWLee@manatt.com

CHRISTOPHER L. WANGER (Bar No. CA 164751)

E-mail: cwanger@manatt.com

AMY B. BRIGGS (Bar No. CA 194028)

E-mail: ABriggs@manatt.com

One Embarcadero Center, 30th Floor

San Francisco, CA 94111

Telephone: (415) 291-7400

Facsimile: (415) 291-7474

Attorneys for Defendants

JONES HELSLEY PC, TIMOTHY JONES, JACK HINDMARSH 

and JACK HINDMARSH, PLC

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

EASTERN DISTRICT

FRESNO DIVISION

CAROLINA CASUALTY INSURANCE 

COMPANY, an Iowa Corporation,

Plaintiff,

vs.

JONES HELSLEY PC, a California 

Professional Corporation, TIMOTHY 

JONES, ESQ., a California Resident, 

JACK HINDMARSH, ESQ., a California 

Resident, JACK HINDMARSH, PLC, a 

California Professional Law Corporation; 

and DOES 1 - 45, inclusive,

Defendants.

No. 1:10-CV-00916-LJO-SKO

ORDER ON STIPULATION AND 

REQUEST FOR A CONTINUANCE OF 

INITIAL SCHEDULING CONFERENCE

 Scheduling Conference set for:

 September 23, 2010 @ 9:30 a.m.

 Courtroom 8

WHEREAS, this is an action in which Plaintiff Carolina Casualty Insurance 

Company ("Plaintiff") seeks a declaratory judgment that its insureds, Defendants Jones Helsley 

PC, Timothy Jones, Esq., Jack Hindmarsh, Esq., and Jack Hindmarsh, PLC (collectively, 

“Defendants”) are not entitled to coverage with respect to an underlying action captioned James 

A. Bratton and Bratton Investments, LLC v. Timothy Jones, Jones & Helsley, Miranda Jones, 

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[PROPOSED] ORDER ON STIP. AND REQUEST 

TO CONTINUE SCHEDULING CONFERENCE 

Jack Hindmarsh, Jack Hindmarsh, PLC, et al., Superior Court of the State of California for the 

County of Fresno Case No. 10 CEC G02212, which was originally filed in the Superior Court of 

the State of California for the County of Mariposa (the “Underlying Action”);

WHEREAS, a mediation is scheduled in the Underlying Action for August 27, 

2010, which could resolve the Underlying Action;

WHEREAS, the Initial Scheduling Conference in this action is presently scheduled 

for August 31, 2010; 

WHEREAS, the parties seek a continuance in order to avoid incurring the costs 

associated with an Initial Scheduling Conference prior to the mediation, thereby promoting 

opportunities for resolution of this action; and

WHEREAS, the parties agree in the interim to the requested continuance set forth 

in a related Stipulation and Request pursuant to Eastern District Local Rules 143 and 144 that the 

Court grant their request for a continuance of the Initial Scheduling Conference until September 

23, 2010, at 9:30 a.m. 

WHEREAS, the parties also stipulate and request that all deadlines triggered by 

the Initial Scheduling Conference, including but not limited to the Federal Rules of Civil 

Procedure, Rule 26 conference and the parties’ Initial Disclosures, be continued and calendared in 

accordance with the date of the continued Initial Scheduling Conference. 

ORDER

IT IS SO ORDERED.

Dated: August 11, 2010 /s/ Sheila K. Oberto 

UNITED STATES MAGISTRATE JUDGE DEAC_Signature-END:

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