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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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Donald Patrick Sullivan (State Bar No. 191080) 

JACKSON LEWIS P.C.

50 California Street, 9th Floor

San Francisco, CA 94111-4615

Telephone: (415) 394-9400

Facsimile: (415) 394-9401

Donald.Sullivan@jacksonlewis.com§

Howard Shapiro (admitted pro hac vice)

Stacey C.S. Cerrone (admitted pro hac vice)

Lindsey H. Chopin (admitted pro hac vice)

JACKSON LEWIS P.C.

650 Poydras Street, Suite 1900

New Orleans, LA 70130

Telephone: (504) 208-1755

Facsimile: (504) 208-1759

Howard.Shapiro@jacksonlewis.com

Stacey.Cerrone@jacksonlewis.com

Lindsey.Chopin@jacksonlewis.com

Attorneys for Defendants 

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

(FRESNO DIVISION)

In re Sutter Health ERISA Litigation Case No. 1:20-cv-01007-JLT-BAM

JOINT STIPULATED REQUEST TO 

MODIFY THE SCHEDULING ORDER 

TO EXTEND ALL DEADLINES BY 60 

DAYS

Amended Consolidated Complaint filed:

November 11, 2020

Phase 1 Discovery Cutoff: January 16, 2024

Class Certification Mtn.: February 20, 2024

Phase 2 Discovery Cutoff: May 21, 2024

Class Certification Opp.: June 18, 2024

Class Certification Reply: July 16, 2024

Class Certification Hearing: August 30, 2024

 9:00 AM

 Courtroom 8 (BAM)

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TO THE COURT AND TO ALL PARTIES AND COUNSEL OF RECORD:

Plaintiffs Christina Bonicarlo, Nicole Garcia, Ronald Hudson, Adam Blackburn, Robert L. 

Hackett, Tabitha Hoglund, and Stephanie Chadwick (“Plaintiffs”) and Defendants Sutter Health and 

Sutter Health 403(b) Savings Plan Committee (“Defendants,” and collectively as the “Parties”) acting 

through their respective counsel of record, hereby respectfully submit this Joint Stipulated Request to 

Modify the Scheduling Order to Extend All Deadlines By 60 Days. The Parties in support thereof 

state as follows:

1. WHEREAS the Court issued a Scheduling Order on June 6, 2023 (Dkt. 100) which 

established the following case deadlines:

a. Phase 1 Discovery Cutoff: November 17, 2023

b. Class Certification Motion Filing Deadline: December 22, 2023

c. Phase 2 Discovery Cutoff: March 22, 2024

d. Class Certification Opposition: April 19, 2024

e. Class Certification Reply: May 17, 2024

f. Class Certification Motion Hearing: June 28, 2024

Time: 9:00 AM

Dept: 8 (BAM)

2. WHEREAS, on June 21, 2023, Plaintiffs served their First Set of Interrogatories and 

First Set of Requests for Production of Documents to Defendants;

3. WHEREAS, on August 21, 2023, the Parties filed their Joint Stipulation for Protective 

Order (Dkt. 104), filed August 21, 2023, as preliminary review and discussion indicated 

that disclosure and discovery related to this matter required production of confidential, 

proprietary, or private information, necessitating extensive review of documents and 

redactions;

4. WHEREAS, on August 21, 2023, Defendants provided 2,219 pages of redacted 

documents in response to Plaintiff’s First Set of Requests for production of Documents;

5. WHEREAS, on August 25, 2023, Defendants provided an additional 2,006 pages of 

redacted documents in response to Plaintiff’s First Set of Requests for Production of 

Documents;

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6. WHEREAS, on October 6, 2023, Plaintiffs served their Notice of Fed. R. Civ. P. 

30(b)(6) deposition of Sutter Health;

7. WHEREAS, the Parties met and conferred on October 17, 2023, and agreed to request 

the Court for a 60-day extension of the current Scheduling Order, as “good cause” 

exists here, under Rule 16(B)(4), to grant the requested extensions for the following 

reasons: (1) the Parties have diligently and cooperatively worked together in this 

complex ERISA putative class action case to modify the scope of discovery, determine 

confidential materials necessitating a protective order, and resolve discovery disputes 

as necessary; (2) the Parties have shown diligence in propounding and responding to 

Phase 1 Discovery as demonstrated above; (3) the requested modifications will ensure 

that the Parties have a meaningful opportunity to tailor discovery appropriately to 

correspond to the bifurcated discovery schedule of class certification/merits as set by 

the Court, before raising discovery disputes with the Court if necessary; and (4) the 

Parties have shown diligence in requesting the modification herein given that the need 

for a modified schedule only arose on October 17, 2023 (when the Parties conferred 

and agreed on additional potentially responsive discovery production by Defendants

requiring review of over 24,000 pages of documents, and potential areas of 

disagreements arose on appropriate topics of Plaintiffs’ October 6, 2023 notice of Fed. 

R. Civ. P. 30(b)(6) deposition of Sutter Health), and this Stipulation was promptly filed 

within two business days. See Jackson v. Laureate, Inc., 186 R.F.D. 605, 608 (E.D 

Cal. 1999); see also Declaration of Howard Shapiro, attached as Exhibit A.

8. WHEREAS, there have been no prior requests for extensions by any party.

THEREFORE, the Parties jointly request respectfully that this Court grant the Parties’

stipulated request to modify the current Scheduling Order to extend all deadlines by a 60-day 

extension, as follows:

a. Phase 1 Discovery Cutoff: January 16, 2023

b. Class Certification Motion Filing Deadline: February 20, 2023

c. Phase 2 Discovery Cutoff: May 21, 2024

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d. Class Certification Opposition: June 18, 2024

e. Class Certification Reply: July 16, 2024

f. Class Certification Motion Hearing: August 27, 2024

Dated: October 19, 2023 Respectfully submitted,

By: /s/ Donald Patrick Sullivan

Donald Patrick Sullivan

JACKSON LEWIS P.C.

50 California Street, 9th Floor

San Francisco, CA 94111-4615

Telephone: (415) 394-9400

Facsimile: (415) 394-9401

Donald.Sullivan@jacksonlewis.com

Howard Shapiro (admitted pro hac vice)

Stacey C.S. Cerrone (admitted pro hac vice)

Lindsey H. Chopin (admitted pro hac vice)

JACKSON LEWIS P.C.

650 Poydras Street, Suite 1900

New Orleans, LA 70130

Telephone: (504) 208-1755

Facsimile: (504) 208-1759

Howard.Shapiro@jacksonlewis.com

Stacey.Cerrone@jacksonlewis.com

Lindsey.Chopin@jacksonlewis.com

Attorneys for Defendants 

SUTTER HEALTH, THE RETIREMENT

BENEFITS INVESTMENT COMMITTEE

IT IS SO STIPULATED.

Dated: October 18, 2023 MILLER SHAH LLP

By: /s/ Alec Berin

 ALEC BERIN

Attorneys for Plaintiffs, the Plan, 

and the Proposed Class

Date: October 18, 2023 JACKSON LEWIS P.C.

By: /s/ Howard Shapiro

HOWARD SHAPIRO

Attorneys for Defendants

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ORDER

Pursuant to the parties’ stipulation and good cause appearing, the deadlines in the Court’s 

Scheduling Order (Doc. 100) are modified as follows:

a. Phase 1 Discovery Cutoff: January 16, 2024

b. Class Certification Motion Filing Deadline: February 20, 2024

c. Phase 2 Discovery Cutoff: May 21, 2024

d. Class Certification Opposition: June 18, 2024

e. Class Certification Reply: July 16, 2024

f. Class Certification Motion Hearing: August 30, 2024

Time: 9:00 AM

Dept: 8 (BAM)

IT IS SO ORDERED.

Dated: October 23, 2023 /s/ Barbara A. McAuliffe _

UNITED STATES MAGISTRATE JUDGE

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