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Nature of Suit Code: 365
Nature of Suit: Personal Injury - Product Liability
Cause of Action: 28:1332 Diversity-Product Liability

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SCHIFF HARDIN LLP

JEFFREY R. WILLIAMS (CSB #84156)

KATHLEEN A. STIMELING (CSB #209226)

One Market, Spear Street Tower, 32nd Floor

San Francisco, CA 94105

Telephone: (415) 901-8700

Facsimile: (415) 901-8701

Attorneys for Defendant

ITW FOOD EQUIPMENT GROUP, erroneously sued herein as 

HOBART CORPORATION

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

BASSAM MASARWEH,

Plaintiff,

v.

HOBART CORPORATION and DOES 1

through 100, Inclusive ,

Defendants.

Case No.: 1:06-CV-00604-LJO-DLB

STIPULATION AND PROPOSED

ORDER TO CONTINUE EXPERT

DISCLOSURE DATE

Trial Date: January 8, 2008

Plaintiff Bassam Masarweh and defendant ITW Food Equipment Group,

erroneously sued herein as Hobart Corporation, by and through their respective counsel,

hereby agree and stipulate as follows:

WHEREAS the current initial expert witness disclosure and report exchange date

in this action is May 8, 2007;

WHEREAS the parties wish to conduct further inspections and testing of the

subject electric mixer prior to the aforementioned expert witness disclosures;

WHEREAS the parties have been diligently meeting and conferring with the third

party workers’ compensation insurance carrier that controls and possesses the electric

mixer for the purpose of further inspections and testing;

WHEREAS the parties are informed and believe that the third party workers’

compensation carrier is considering filing a complaint in intervention in this action;

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WHEREAS the parties have been unable to conduct further inspections and

testing of the subject electric mixer to date; and

WHEREAS the parties seek to be relieved of their expert discovery obligations

and the burden of the May 8, 2007 expert discovery exchange before further inspections

and testing of the subject electric mixer are completed;

The parties stipulate to the following and respectfully request that the Court issue

the following Orders:

1. The expert disclosure date of May 8, 2007 and the supplemental expert

disclosure date of June 8, 2007 are vacated and hereby continued to June 8,

2007 and July 9, 2007, respectively;

2. Should the third party workers’ compensation carrier file a complaint in

intervention in this action the parties, including the carrier, reserve their rights

to further address the Court regarding the deadlines set forth in the Court’s

September 16, 2006 Scheduling Conference Order, including the trial date of

January 8, 2008.

DATED: May 4, 2007 SCHIFF HARDIN LLP

By /s/ 

 Kathleen A. StimelingAttorneys for Defendant

ITW FOOD EQUIPMENT GROUP,

erroneously sued herein as HOBART

CORPORATION

DATED: May 3, 2007 LAW OFFICES OF BRYMAN & APELIAN

By /s/ 

 Andrew C. BrymanAttorneys for

PlaintiffBASSAM MASARWEH

ORDER

Pursuant to the above stipulation,

IT IS SO ORDERED.

Dated: May 4, 2007 /s/ Lawrence J. O'Neill 

66h44d UNITED STATES DISTRICT JUDGE

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