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Nature of Suit Code: 791
Nature of Suit: Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA)
Cause of Action: 29:1132 E.R.I.S.A.: Employee Benefits

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Trucker 

 Huss 

A Professional Corporation 

One Embarcadero Center, 12th Floor 

San Francisco, California 94111 

R. Bradford Huss, SBN 71303 

Angel L. Garrett, SBN 255682 

Dylan D. Rudolph, SBN 278707 

TRUCKER  HUSS 

A Professional Corporation 

One Embarcadero Center, 12th Floor 

San Francisco, California 94111 

Telephone: (415) 788-3111 

Facsimile: (415) 421-2017 

E-mail: bhuss@truckerhuss.com 

 agarrett@truckerhuss.com 

 drudolph@truckerhuss.com 

Joseph C. Faucher, SBN 137353 

TRUCKER  HUSS 

A Professional Corporation 

633 W. 5th Street, 26th Floor 

Los Angeles, California 90071 

Telephone: (213) 537-1016 

Facsimile: (213) 537-1020 

E-mail: jfaucher@truckerhuss.com 

Attorneys for Defendants 

SAFEWAY INC. and SAFEWAY BENEFIT PLANS 

COMMITTEE 

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 

SAN FRANCISCO 

DENNIS M. LORENZ, Individually and On 

Behalf of All Others Similarly Situated, 

 Plaintiff, 

 vs. 

SAFEWAY INC., BENEFIT PLANS 

COMMITTEE SAFEWAY INC., 

 and DOES 1 to 100 inclusive, 

 Defendants. 

Case No. 3:16-cv-04903-JST 

STIPULATION TO EXTEND TIME FOR 

THE SAFEWAY DEFENDANTS TO 

RESPOND TO PLAINTIFF’S SECOND 

AMENDED COMPLAINT 

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Trucker 

 Huss 

A Professional Corporation 

One Embarcadero Center, 12th Floor 

San Francisco, California 94111 

Pursuant to Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 12, and Local Rule 6-1(a), Defendants 

SAFEWAY INC. and SAFEWAY BENEFIT PLANS COMMITTEE (collectively, the “Safeway 

Defendants”) and Plaintiff DENNIS M. LORENZ (“Plaintiff”) hereby stipulate, by and through 

their respective counsel, to extend the time by which the Safeway Defendants have to respond to 

Plaintiff’s second amended complaint (“SAC”) and, in support thereof, state as follows: 

WHEREAS, Plaintiff’s SAC was filed on November 21, 2016 (Docket No. 31); 

WHEREAS, the Safeway Defendants filed a motion to dismiss Plaintiff’s SAC on December 

15, 2017 (Docket No. 38); 

WHEREAS, the Court granted in part and denied in part the Safeway Defendants’ motion to 

dismiss Plaintiff’s SAC by order dated March 13, 2017 (Docket No. 58); 

WHEREAS, Plaintiff’s counsel informed the Court and the Safeway Defendants at the 

March 15, 2017 scheduling conference that Plaintiff may seek leave to further amend his SAC to 

drop his class action allegations in light of the Court’s order dismissing Plaintiff’s prohibited 

transaction claims against the Safeway Defendants and Defendant Great-West Life Financial RPS 

LLC; 

WHEREAS, at the March 15, 2017 case management conference, the Court set a deadline 

for Plaintiff to elect whether the case will proceed as a class action on March 31, 2017 (Docket No. 

67); 

WHEREAS, pursuant to Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 12(a)(4)(A), Defendants’ deadline 

to respond to Plaintiff’s SAC is currently March 27, 2017; 

WHEREAS, Defendants’ response to Plaintiff’s SAC will necessarily be affected should 

Plaintiff further amend his SAC to drop his class action allegations; 

 WHEREAS, this stipulation regarding an extension for Defendants to respond to Plaintiff’s 

SAC will not alter any dates set by the Court; 

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Trucker 

 Huss 

A Professional Corporation 

One Embarcadero Center, 12th Floor 

San Francisco, California 94111 

NOW, THEREFORE, the Plaintiff and the Safeway Defendants hereby stipulate and agree 

as follows: 

1. The deadline for the Safeway Defendants to respond to Plaintiff’s SAC, or to a 

further amended complaint filed by Plaintiff in this action prior to the March 31, 

2017 cut-off set by the Court in its case management order, shall be extended to: 

April 18, 2017. 

IT IS SO STIPULATED. 

DATED: March 16, 2017 TRUCKER  HUSS 

By: /s/ R. Bradford Huss 

R. Bradford Huss 

Attorneys for Defendants 

SAFEWAY INC. and SAFEWAY BENEFIT 

PLANS COMMITTEE 

DATED: March 16, 2017 SCHNEIDER WALLACE COTTRELL KONECKY 

 WOTKYNS, LLP 

By: /s/ Jason H. Kim 

Jason H. Kim 

Attorneys for Plaintiff 

DENNIS M. LORENZ, Individually and On 

Behalf of All Others Similarly Situated 

I attest that my firm has obtained Jason Kim’s concurrence in the filing of this document. 

DATED: March 16, 2017 

TRUCKER  HUSS 

By: /s/ R. Bradford Huss 

R. Bradford Huss 

Attorneys for Defendants 

SAFEWAY INC. and BENEFIT PLANS 

COMMITTEE SAFEWAY INC. 

 

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 Huss 

A Professional Corporation 

One Embarcadero Center, 12th Floor 

San Francisco, California 94111 

[PROPOSED] ORDER

The deadline for the Safeway Defendants to respond to Plaintiff’s SAC, or to a further 

amended complaint filed by Plaintiff in this action prior to the March 31, 2017 cut-off set by the 

Court in its case management order, shall be extended to: April 18, 2017. 

IT IS SO ORDERED. 

DATED: 

 Hon. Jon S. Tigar 

 United States District Judge 

 

March 17, 2017

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