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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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STIPULATION AND [PROPOSED] ORDER FOR FURTHER EXTENSION OF TIME FOR ACCESS 

MEDICAL, LLC AND ROBERT WOOD TO RESPOND TO INITIAL COMPLAINT

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LINDA WENDELL HSU (SBN 162971)

lhsu@selmanbreitman.com

QUYEN THI LE (SBN 271692)

qle@selmanbreitman.com

SELMAN BREITMAN LLP

33 New Montgomery, Sixth Floor

San Francisco, CA 94105-4537

Telephone: 415.979.0400

Facsimile: 415.979.2099

Attorneys for Plaintiff NAUTILUS INSURANCE COMPANY

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

NAUTILUS INSURANCE COMPANY,

Plaintiff,

v.

ACCESS MEDICAL, LLC; ROBERT 

CLARK WOOD, II; FLOURNOY 

MANAGEMENT, LLC; TED SWITZER; and 

DOES 1-10, inclusive,

Defendants.

Case No. 1:14-cv-01591-GEB-BAM

STIPULATION AND [PROPOSED] ORDER FOR 

FURTHER EXTENSION OF TIME FOR 

DEFENDANTS ACCESS MEDICAL, LLC AND 

ROBERT CLARK WOOD, II TO RESPOND TO 

INITIAL COMPLAINT

Judge: Garland E. Burrell, Jr.

Complaint Filed: October 10, 2014

Pursuant to Local Rule 144, Plaintiff NAUTILUS INSURANCE COMPANY 

("Nautilus") and DEFENDANTS ACCESS MEDICAL, LLC ("Access Medical") and ROBERT 

CLARK WOOD, II ("Wood"), by and through their respective counsel of record, hereby 

stipulate as follows:

RECITALS

1. Plaintiff Nautilus filed its Complaint for Declaratory Relief on October 10, 2014 

(Docket No. 1).

2. Plaintiff alleges that it served the Summons and Complaint on Defendants Access 

Medical and Wood by substituted service on December 4, 2014 (Docket Nos. 11-12), making 

their original deadline to respond to the Complaint as December 26, 2014.

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3. On December 16, 2014, defendant Flournoy Management, LLC ("Flournoy") 

filed its Motion to Dismiss for Lack of Venue or in the Alternative Transfer Venue to the District 

of Nevada ("Motion to Dismiss/Transfer Venue") (Docket No. 20).

4. On December 24, 2014, defendant Ted Switzer ("Switzer") filed his answer to 

Nautilus's Complaint (Docket No. 23).

5. In light of the procedural issues presented in Flournoy's Motion to 

Dismiss/Transfer Venue, Nautilus, Access Medical and Wood previously agreed that Access 

Medical and Wood could have an initial extension of time until January 9, 2015, to respond to 

Plaintiff's Complaint (Docket No. 24). Thereafter, Nautilus, Access Medical and Wood entered 

into a second stipulation for a further extension of time until January 23, 2015 for Access 

Medical and Wood to respond to Plaintiff's Complaint (Docket No. 25), and the Court granted 

the second stipulation on January 13, 2015 (Docket No. 26).

6. Nautilus contacted the current counsel of record for Flournoy, who happens to 

also be the counsel of record for Access Medical and Wood, to discuss the issues presented in 

Flournoy's Motion to Dismiss/Transfer Venue. Thereafter, Nautilus entered into an agreement 

with the current counsel of record for Flournoy that Nautilus would voluntarily dismiss, without 

prejudice, this instant action, and Nautilus would thereafter file a similar declaratory relief action 

in the District of Nevada concerning Nautilus's duties to defend and/or indemnify its insureds, 

defendants Flournoy, Access Medical and Wood, in the underlying litigation. The Nevada action 

would not name Switzer as a party.

7. Pursuant to this agreement, Plaintiff Nautilus filed its Motion for Voluntary 

Dismissal Without Prejudice Pursuant to Federal Rules of Civil Procedure Rule 41(a)(2) 

("Motion for Voluntary Dismissal") on January 14, 2015 (Docket No. 27) because defendant 

Switzer refused to stipulate to a voluntary dismissal of Nautilus's Complaint.

8. The next day, on January 15, 2015, Defendant Switzer filed an opposition to 

Flournoy's Motion to Dismiss/Transfer Venue (Docket No. 31) and a Counter-Motion to 

Disqualify Jordan P. Schnitzer and the Law Firm of Kravitz, Schnitzer & Johnson, CHTD as 

counsel for Flournoy ("Counter-Motion to Disqualify Counsel") (Docket No. 33).

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9. On January 15, 2015, the Court continued the hearing dates for Flournoy's Motion 

to Dismiss/Transfer Venue and Switzer's Counter-Motion to Disqualify Counsel to February 17, 

2015, which is also the date of the hearing for Nautilus's Motion for Voluntary Dismissal 

(Docket No. 34).

10. Switzer notified Nautilus that Switzer (to the extent he has standing to do so) will 

not agree to any further stipulations of time for Access Medical and Wood to file responsive 

pleadings to Nautilus's Complaint.

11. Access Medical and Wood have advised Nautilus that each defendant will file 

procedural motions in response to Nautilus's Complaint, as opposed to answers, if Access 

Medical and Wood are required to file responsive pleadings by January 23, 2015.

12. In light of the pending motions to dismiss and related counter-motion, Nautilus, 

Access Medical, Wood and the current counsel of record for Flournoy, believe it is in the best 

interest of the Court's time and resources for Access Medical and Wood to file responsive 

pleadings, if necessary, after the Court's ruling on the motions currently pending before the court. 

These parties respectfully request the Court to grant Access Medical and Wood until February 

20, 2015, or a date thereafter as the Court deems proper, to respond to Nautilus's Complaint, if 

any such response is necessary.

13. Before presenting this Stipulation and Proposed Order to the Court, Nautilus 

presented this Stipulation and Proposed Order to each defendant and their respective counsel of 

record. Defendant Switzer seeks an opportunity to separately provide the Court with his 

response to the terms of this Stipulation and Proposed Order. 

STIPULATION

IT IS SO STIPULATED between Plaintiff Nautilus, on the one hand, and Defendants 

Access Medical and Wood, on the other, by and through their undersigned attorneys, that the 

time for Access Medical and Wood to respond to Plaintiff Nautilus's Complaint is further 

extended until and including February 20, 2015, or a date thereafter as the Court deems proper.

IT IS FURTHER STIPULATED between Plaintiff Nautilus and Defendants Access 

Medical and Wood that by entering in to this stipulation, Access Medical and Wood have not 

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waived any defenses pursuant to Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, Rule 12, including venue, 

jurisdiction, insufficient process or insufficient service of process.

IT IS FURTHER STIPULATED that the parties respectfully request the Court to allow 

defendant Switzer to respond with any objections to this Stipulation And Proposed Order (if 

Switzer has standing to do so) prior to making a determination on whether to grant this further 

extension of time for Access Medical and Wood to respond to Nautilus's Complaint. Nautilus, 

Access Medical and Wood have requested that Switzer file any such response by January 22, 

2015.

DATED: January 20, 2015 KRAVITZ, SCHNITZER & JOHNSON, 

CHTD.

By: _____/s/ Jordan P. Schnitzer

JORDAN P. SCHNITZER

Attorneys of record for Defendants 

FLOURNOY MANAGEMENT, LLC, 

ACCESS MEDICAL, LLC and ROBERT 

CLARK WOOD, II

DATED: January 20, 2015 SELMAN BREITMAN LLP

By: _____/s/ Quyen Thi Le

LINDA WENDELL HSU

QUYEN THI LE

Attorneys for Plaintiff NAUTILUS 

INSURANCE COMPANY

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[PROPOSED] ORDER

The Court has reviewed the parties' agreement and adopts the stipulation. The time for 

Access Medical and Wood to respond to Plaintiff Nautilus's Complaint, if any such response is 

needed, is extended until and including February 20, 2015.

IT IS SO ORDERED:

Dated: January 23, 2015

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