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Nature of Suit Code: 791
Nature of Suit: Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA)
Cause of Action: 29:1109 Breach of Fiduciary Duties

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STIPULATION RE: CASE DEADLINES CASE NO. 14-cv-00667-WHO

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JANET M. HEROLD

Regional Solicitor

DANIELLE L. JABERG

Counsel for ERISA

IAN H. ELIASOPH 

Counsel for ERISA

BENJAMIN R. BOTTS (CSBN 274542)

Trial Attorney

Office of the Solicitor

U.S. DEPARTMENT OF LABOR

90 Seventh Street, Suite 3-700

San Francisco, CA 94103

Telephone: (415) 625-7767

Facsimile: (415) 625-7772

Email: botts.benjamin.r@dol.gov

Attorneys for Plaintiff

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

SAN FRANCISCO DIVISION

THOMAS E. PEREZ, United States Secretary 

of Labor,

Plaintiff,

v.

ANIMAL CLINIC OF ALAMO, INC., a 

corporation; DEBORAH KNIBB, an 

individual; JOHN C. BAINE, III, an 

individual; and the ANIMAL CLINIC 

OF ALAMO PROFIT SHARING 

PLAN, an employee pension benefit plan,

Defendants.

Case No.: 14-cv-00667-WHO

STIPULATION AND ORDER RE: 

EXTENSION OF CASE DEADLINES

Pursuant to the Court’s October 30, 2014 Order Continuing Trial and Other Dates, the

discovery cutoff in this case is March 30, 2015. Dkt. No. 50. On February 12, 2015, Magistrate 

Judge Laurel Beeler set a further settlement conference for March 2, 2015. Dkt. No. 53. In 

order to provide the parties adequate time to engage in meaningful settlement discussions while 

preserving their ability to conduct sufficient discovery if they are unable to resolve this matter 

through the settlement conference process, the parties request and hereby stipulate to extend the 

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case deadlines in the Court’s October 30, 2014 order by 60 days as follows: 

Discovery cutoff (fact and expert): May 29, 2015

Expert disclosure: April 17, 2015

Rebuttal disclosure: May 8, 2015

Dispositive motions heard by: July 5, 2015

Pretrial Conference: August 28, 2015

Trial: September 11, 2015

AGREED: 

M. PATRICIA SMITH

Solicitor of Labor

JANET M. HEROLD

Regional Solicitor

DANIELLE L. JABERG

Counsel for ERISA

IAN H. ELIASOPH 

Counsel for ERISA

Dated: 2/19/2015 By: /s/ Benjamin Botts 

BENJAMIN R. BOTTS

Trial Attorney

U.S. Department of Labor, Office of the Solicitor

Attorneys for Plaintiff Thomas E. Perez

Dated: 2/18/2015 /s/Robert Guite (as authorized 2/18/2015)

ROBERT GUITE

Sheppard Mullin, LLP

Settlement Attorney for Defendant Deborah Knibb

Dated:

JOHN BAINE III, Defendant in Pro Per

Dated: 2/13/2015 /s/William Thompson (as authorized 2/13/2015)

WILLIAM THOMPSON

Attorney for Third-Party Defendant David Berlier

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ORDER

PURSUANT TO STIPULATION, modified as follows, the case schedule shall be: 

Discovery cutoff (fact and expert): May 29, 2015

Expert disclosure: April 17, 2015

Rebuttal disclosure: May 8, 2015

Dispositive motions heard by: July 1, 2015

Pretrial Conference: August 24, 2015

Trial: September 21, 2015

IT IS SO ORDERED.

Dated: February 20, 2015

HONORABLE WILLIAM H. ORRICK

United States District Judge 

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