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Nature of Suit Code: 362
Nature of Suit: Medical Malpractice
Cause of Action: 28:1402 Medical Malpractice

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Stip. and Order to Continue Scheduling Conference and JSR 1

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IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

LINDA McDONOUGH

Plaintiff,

v.

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Defendants

CASE NO. 2:14-cv-01252-GEB-CMK

STIPULATION and [PROPOSED] 

ORDER TO CONTINUE INITIAL 

STATUS CONFERENCE AND JOINT 

SCHEDULING REPORT

This is a Federal Tort Claims Act (“FTCA”) medical malpractice action. The Complaint in 

this matter was filed May 21, 2014. (Dkt. No. 1). This Court issued its standard new case order the 

following day. (See Order Setting Status (Pretrial Scheduling) Conference, Dkt. No. 3). In that 

Order, the Court set a Scheduling Conference for September 15, 2014, and ordered a Joint Status 

Report to be filed by September 1, 2014. (See id. at ¶¶ 1 & 6). The Scheduling Conference was 

continued to November 10, 2014, by stipulation and order of this Court, making the Joint Status 

Report due October 27, 2014. (Dkt. No. 7)

The United States has since filed a motion to dismiss set for November 3, 2014, contending

that Plaintiff’s claims are barred by 28 U.S.C. § 2401(b), the FTCA’s statute of limitations. (Dkt. 

No. 8). Plaintiff has opposed the motion (Dkt. No 8), and the United States’ reply brief is due 

October 27, 2014—the same day as the Joins Status Report is currently due. Given the dispositive 

nature of the motion, the parties agree that it would be more efficient for the Court to resolve this 

threshold issue before further proceedings in the case, and that the initial scheduling conference and 

Joint Status Report should be continued until after such resolution. 

BENJAMIN B. WAGNER

United States Attorney

GREGORY T. BRODERICK

Assistant United States Attorney

501 I Street, Suite 10-100

Sacramento, CA 95814

Telephone: (916) 554-2700

Facsimile: (916) 554-2900 

Attorneys for the United States

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Therefore, the parties stipulate to continue the status conference to December 15, 2014, with 

the Joint Status Report due fourteen days before the hearing. Counsel for Plaintiff has a trial 

beginning November 24, 2014, and hearings set in Alameda county and Yuba on December 1, and 

the parties thus request that the Court not set the conference until after those dates. 

Respectfully submitted,

DATED: October 16, 2014 BENJAMIN B. WAGNER

United States Attorney

By: /s/ Gregory T. Broderick

GREGORY T. BRODERICK

Assistant U.S. Attorney

DATED: October 16, 2014

By: /s/ Dennis B. Hill (auth. on 10/15/2014)

DENNIS B. HILL

Attorney for Plaintiff

PROPOSED ORDER

IT IS SO ORDERED.

Dated: October 16, 2014

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