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Nature of Suit Code: 340
Nature of Suit: Marine Personal Injury
Cause of Action: 46:688 Jones Act

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STIPULATION FOR MODIFICATION OF

DISCOVERY AND MOTION DEADLINES

[\LOTT USA\MOTION\STIP DATES.M04]

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JEFFREY S. BUCHOLTZ 

Acting Assistant Attorney General

SCOTT N. SCHOOLS

United States Attorney

R. MICHAEL UNDERHILL

Attorney in Charge, West Coast Office

Torts Branch, Civil Division

R. SCOTT BLAZE

Senior Admiralty Counsel

Torts Branch, Civil Division

GEOFFREY D. OWEN

Trial Attorney

Torts Branch, Civil Division

U.S. Department of Justice

7-5395 Federal Bldg., P.O. Box 36028

450 Golden Gate Avenue

San Francisco, California 94102-3463

Telephone: (415) 436-6635; (415) 436-6646

E-mail: scott.blaze@usdoj.gov

geoff.owen@usdoj.gov

Attorneys of Defendant & Cross-claimant

United States of America

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

JACKIE V. LOTT, )

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Plaintiff, )

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 v. )

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UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, )

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Defendant. ) )

CIVIL NO. C-07-3530-PJH

STIPULATION FOR ORDER

MODIFYING DISCOVERY AND

MOTION DEADLINES WITH ORDER

PREAMBLE 

 The parties seek this Honorable Court’s partial modification of its pretrial order in this

action. The parties do not seek to modify the trial date (January 26, 2009) or the pretrial conference

date (January 15, 2009) or the dates when pretrial papers, pretrial conference statements, exchange

of exhibits, and the like, are due.

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STIPULATION FOR MODIFICATION OF

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In this action by a merchant mariner for alleged personal injury damages, the parties seek

to modify certain discovery deadlines to reflect complexities interjected into this action by the need

to obtain the Court’s order upon Privacy Act issues, as further affected by the facts that the alleged

accident occurred in foreign waters. The vessel is located off shore. Some of the witnesses are

located in Korea. Others, former vessel complement, are located wherever their present employment

may take them. 

Plaintiff’s motion for an order requiring the United States and its counsel of record to reveal

contact information of said complement, based upon the Privacy Act, is set for April 14, 2008.

Discovery cut off is set for May 2, Experts are to be revealed May 1 and June 4. Expert discovery

is cut off as of August 15, 2008.

The parties need extra time in discovery to be prepared for mediation (by June 30) and/or

for trial.

The parties believe that were the Honorable Court to order the modifications sought, such

would tend to increase the likelihood of settlement negotiations not being affected by the parties’

having insufficient information upon which to make reasonably informed decisions.

STIPULATION

The parties to this case stipulate and respectfully request this Honorable Court order

proposed dates, below, be effective in this action.

EVENT SET DATE PROPOSED DATE

Non-expert discovery cutoff 5/2/08 6/30/08

Expert disclosure, Plaintiff 5/1/08 6/30/08

Expert disclosure, Defendant 6/4/08 7/30/08

Expert discovery cutoff 8/15/08 9/30/08

Dispositive motions heard by 9/10/08 10/8/08

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SO STIPULATED.

Dated: 4/4/08 JEFFREY S. BUCHOLTZ 

Acting Assistant Attorney General

SCOTT N. SCHOOLS

United States Attorney

R. MICHAEL UNDERHILL

Attorney in Charge, West Coast Office

Torts Branch, Civil Division

R. SCOTT BLAZE

Senior Admiralty Counsel

Torts Branch, Civil Division

 /s/ Geoffrey D. Owen GEOFFREY D. OWEN

Trial Attorney

Torts Branch, Civil Division

U.S. Department of Justice

Attorneys for Defendant,

United States of America

Dated: 4/2/08 

 /s/ Arnold I. Berschler ARNOLD I. BERSCHLER

Berschler Associates, PC

Attorneys for Plaintiff

Jackie V. Lott

[proposed] ORDER

Upon review of the foregoing Preamble and Stipulation, and Good Cause otherwise

appearing, 

IT IS ORDERED THAT the newly proposed dates, set forth above, are hereby set.

Dated: _________________ _____________________

Judge Phyllis J. Hamilton

United States District Court Judge

4/7/08

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORN

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IT IS SO ORDERED

Judge Phyllis J. Hamilton

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