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Nature of Suit Code: 442
Nature of Suit: Civil Rights Employment
Cause of Action: 42:2000e Job Discrimination (Employment)

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STIPULATED JOINT REQUEST AND ORDER TO MODIFY STATUS

(PRETRIAL SCHEDULING) ORDER - Case No. 2:15-cv-00060-KJM-AC

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Siegel 

LeWitter 

Malkani

1939 Harrison St. 

Suite 307 

Oakland, CA 94612 

510-452-5000 

510-452-5004 (fax) 

IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 

FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 

LILY CERVANTES 

 Plaintiff, 

 v. 

STOCKTON UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT 

and DOES I through XX, inclusive, 

 Defendant. 

 

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Case No. 2:15-cv-00060-KJM-AC

STIPULATED JOINT REQUEST AND 

ORDER TO MODIFY STATUS 

(PRETRIAL SCHEDULING) ORDER 

Plaintiff Lily Cervantes (“Plaintiff”) and Defendant Stockton Unified School District 

(“Defendant”), collectively (“the Parties”), by and through their respective undersigned counsel, 

hereby stipulate and jointly request that the discovery deadline be extended to August 15, 2016, 

solely for the purpose of taking Dr. Sheree Audet’s deposition, and that the hearing deadline for 

dispositive motions be extended to September 30, 2016. 

Jonathan H. Siegel (SBN 78143)

Benjamin J. Siegel (SBN 256260) 

SIEGEL LEWITTER MALKANI 

1939 Harrison Street, Suite 307

Oakland, California 94612 

Phone: 510-452-5000 

Fax: 510-452-5004 

jsiegel@sl-employmentlaw.com

bsiegel@sl-employmentlaw.com 

Attorneys for Plaintiff LILY CERVANTES 

James T. Anwyl (SBN 78715) 

Lynn A. Garcia (SBN 131196) 

Alexandra M. Asterlin (SBN 221286) 

ANWYL & STEPP, LLP 

2339 Gold Meadow Way, Suite 210 

Gold River, CA 95670. 

Phone: (916) 565-1800 

Fax: (916) 565-2374 

jtanwyl@anwylaw.com

lag@anwylaw.com aasterlin@anwylaw.com

Attorneys for Defendant STOCKTON 

UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT 

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Siegel 

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Malkani

1939 Harrison St. 

Suite 307 

Oakland, CA 94612 

510-452-5000 

510-452-5004 (fax) 

The discovery deadline currently is June 28, 2016. The hearing deadline for dispositive 

motions currently is August 26, 2016. 

There is good cause for moving these dates. Plaintiff alleges in her operative complaint 

that Defendant laid off plaintiff effective July 1, 2014, because of her race, sex, and/or age. Before 

the layoff, Plaintiff was Defendant’s Executive Director of Legal Affairs. She alleges that the 

primary discriminatory actor was Defendant’s former Superintendent, Steven Lowder. At the time 

of Plaintiff’s layoff, Dr. Sheree Audet was the Deputy Superintendent. Dr. Audet left Defendant’s 

employ soon after Plaintiff’s layoff. 

Plaintiff believes that Dr. Audet is an important witness. Defendant produced in discovery 

administrative claims filed by Dr. Audet against Defendant in late 2014. In those claims, Dr. 

Audet alleges, among other things, that Dr. Lowder told her that he wanted to “‘set up’ [the 

termination of three older Hispanic females, including Ms. Cervantes] so it would not look like 

discrimination on gender, race, or age, since all were Hispanic females and over the age of 50.” 

(SUSD 007833.) Dr. Lowder denied this allegation at his deposition. Dr. Audet also alleged that 

she was Ms. Cervantes’s direct supervisor, but that she was not “asked for [her] recommendation 

nor was [she] involved in th[e] decision” to layoff Ms. Cervantes. It thus came as a “complete 

surprise” to Dr. Audet when Dr. Lowder informed her that he had decided to eliminate Ms. 

Cervantes’s position. (SUSD 007835.) 

For several months, Plaintiff has been attempting to locate Dr. Audet for a deposition, 

again who does not work for Defendant. Defense counsel also explained that Defendant did not 

know her whereabouts, and that it could not produce for her a deposition. Plaintiff’s counsel 

subsequently learned, earlier this year, that Dr. Audet is living and working in Abu Dhabi in the 

United Arab Emirates. Plaintiff’s counsel also has been informed that Dr. Audet is returning to 

Northern California for six weeks starting in July 2016. Plaintiff’s counsel and Defense counsel 

have been meeting and conferring about what to do, and ultimately determined that they could not 

arrange for her deposition in Abu Dhabi. Thus, the Parties have agreed to stipulate to extend the 

discovery deadline from June 28, 2016 to August 15, 2016, solely for the purpose of taking the 

deposition of Dr. Audet and not for any other purpose. The Parties also have agreed to work 

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together to find an agreeable date, for each Party as well as Dr. Audet, to take the deposition, and 

that every effort would be made to take the deposition as soon as possible, schedules permitting, 

and that in no event would that deposition occur after August 15, 2016. 

Defendant currently intends to file a dispositive motion in this case. Even so, the decision 

about whether to file a motion and the content of the motion may be dependent on what occurs at 

Dr. Audet’s deposition. Thus, the Parties request that the hearing deadline for dispositive motions 

be extended to September 30, 2016. That will give Defendant sufficient time to prepare any 

dispositive motion after Dr. Audet’s deposition, even assuming that deposition cannot be 

scheduled until close to August 15, 2016. 

The Parties understand that the Court may wish to adjust other dates based on moving the 

deadlines discussed above. Thus, the Parties would be available for telephonic or in-person 

conference to discuss the above, if the Court believes it is necessary. 

Accordingly, the Parties hereby jointly stipulate and request that the discovery deadline be 

extended to August 15, 2016, solely to permit the taking of Dr. Sheree Audet’s deposition, and 

that the hearing deadline for dispositive motions be extended to September 30, 2016. 

DATED: May 19, 2016 SIEGEL LEWITTER MALKANI 

By: /s/ Benjamin J. Siegel 

Jonathan H. Siegel 

Benjamin J. Siegel 

Attorneys for Plaintiff

DATED: May 19, 2016 ANWYL & STEPP, LLP 

By: /s/ James T. Anwyl (as authorized on 5/17/16)

James T. Anwyl

Lynn A. Garcia

Alexandra M. Asterlin

Attorneys for Defendant

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1939 Harrison St. 

Suite 307 

Oakland, CA 94612 

510-452-5000 

510-452-5004 (fax) 

ORDER 

Good cause appearing, the court GRANTS the parties’ request to modify the Status 

(Pretrial Scheduling) Order (ECF No. 33). To allow sufficient time for the resolution of any 

dispositive motions, the court further modifies the remaining dates and deadlines. Accordingly, 

the case schedule IS MODIFIED as follows: 

 The deadline to complete fact discovery is EXTENDED to August 15, 2016, solely 

to permit the taking of Dr. Sheree Audet’s deposition; 

 The deadline for dispositive motions to be heard is EXTENDED to September 23, 

2016; 

 The Final Pretrial Conference is RESET for January 13, 2017 at 10:00 a.m. in 

Courtroom 3 (KJM) before Judge Kimberly J. Mueller, with a joint pretrial 

conference statement due by December 22, 2016; 

 The jury trial is RESET for February 13, 2017 at 9:00 a.m. in Courtroom 3 (KJM) 

before Judge Kimberly J. Mueller, with trial briefs due by January 30, 2017. 

 All other previously set deadlines, such as the deadlines for expert discovery, 

remain in place. 

 IT IS SO ORDERED. 

DATED: May 19, 2016

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