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Nature of Suit Code: 360
Nature of Suit: Other Personal Injury
Cause of Action: 28:1446 Petition for Removal- Personal Injury

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STIPULATION AND PROPOSED ORDER TO MODIFY SCHEDULING ORDER, 

TO CONTINUE DISCOVERY CUTOFF DEADLINES, PRE-TRIAL CONFERENCE AND TRIAL DATE

W. Ray Jones, SBN 050849 

JONES & STEPHENS

A Professional Corporation

1624 Santa Clara Drive, Suite 120

Roseville, California 95661

(916) 786-0950 / 969-0950 OK/HAV

Attorney for Plaintiff

JORGE MAYA

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

JORGE MAYA, 

Plaintiff, 

vs.

ACCOTEL PROPERTY INVESTORS, 

LLC, fictitiously doing business as

MOTEL 6, ACCOTEL REMAINDER,

LLC, et al., 

Defendants.

 

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CASE NO. 2:05-CV-01940-DEL-GGH

STIPULATION AND PROPOSED ORDER

TO MODIFY SCHEDULING ORDER, TO

CONTINUE DISCOVERY CUTOFF

DEADLINES, PRE-TRIAL CONFERENCE

AND TRIAL DATE

Judge: Hon. David F.

Levi

Courtroom No. 7

Pre-trial Conference: February 23, 2007

Trial Date: March 26, 2007

Plaintiff, JORGE MAYA, and Defendants, MOTEL 6 OPERATING, LP, and ACCOTEL

PROPERTY INVESTORS, LLC, through their respective attorneys of record, W. Ray Jones, Jones

& Stephens, a Prof. Corp., and Michael D. Welch, Gordon & Rees, LLP, state that, 

GOOD CAUSE EXISTS for amending the Scheduling Order and continuing the trial date

based on the facts set forth below in the Declaration of Alisa J. Stephens, and stipulate that the Court

make the following orders: 

That the Scheduling Order of December 6, 2005 be amended, and that the following Orders

be made:

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STIPULATION AND PROPOSED ORDER TO MODIFY SCHEDULING ORDER, 

TO CONTINUE DISCOVERY CUTOFF DEADLINES, PRE-TRIAL CONFERENCE AND TRIAL DATE

1. Dispositive motions shall be filed by June 8, 2007. Hearing on such motions shall

be on July 18, 2007 at 10:00 a.m. The opposition and reply must be filed by 4:00 p.m. on the day

due. 

2. All discovery shall be completed by June 15, 2007.

3. The parties shall make expert witness disclosures under FRCP 26(a)(2) by June 29,

 2007. Supplemental disclosure and disclosure of any rebuttal experts under FRCP 26(a)(2)(c) shall

be made by July 9, 2007. Expert discovery shall be completed by July 31, 2007.

4. The final pre-trial conference is set for August 10, 2007 at 2:00 p.m. The parties shall

file with the court, no later than seven (7) days prior to the final pre-trial conference, a joint pre-trial

 statement. 

5. Trial in this matter is set for September 10, 2007 at 9:00 a.m.

Dated: February 16, 2007 JONES & STEPHENS

A Professional Corporation 

By /s/W. RAY JONES 

 Attorneys for Plaintiff

 JORGE MAYA

Dated: February 13, 2007 GORDON & REES LLP

By /s/MICHAEL D. WELCH

 Attorneys for Defendants

 MOTEL 6 OPERATING LP and 

 ACCOTEL PROPERTY INVESTORS LLC

DECLARATION OF ALISA J. STEPHENS RE GOOD CAUSE

I, ALISA J. STEPHENS, state:

1. I am an attorney at law, duly licensed to practice before all courts of the State of

California, and am a partner with the firm ofJones & Stephens, a Professional Corporation, attorneys

for the plaintiff, Jorge Maya. 

2. This action was removed to the United States District Court for the Eastern District

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STIPULATION AND PROPOSED ORDER TO MODIFY SCHEDULING ORDER, 

TO CONTINUE DISCOVERY CUTOFF DEADLINES, PRE-TRIAL CONFERENCE AND TRIAL DATE

of California on September 22, 2005. 

3. The parties filed a joint status report on November 22, 2005. Plaintiff served his

initial disclosure pursuant to FRCP 26(a)(1) on Defendants bymail on January 12, 2006. Defendants

served their initial disclosure pursuant to FRCP 26(a)(1) on Plaintiff by mail on March 24, 2006.

4. The Court issued a Status (Pre-trial Scheduling) Order on December 6, 2005, which

Plaintiff did not receive. I am informed and believe and thereon state that through inadvertence or

mistake Plaintiff’s attorneys were not registered to receive documents filed electronically, and that

a paper copy was not served by mail. Plaintiff’s attorneys were unaware of the existence of such

Scheduling Order and all of the deadlines and dates set forth in that Order, until I telephoned the

Courtroom Deputy, Harry Vine, on February 12, 2007. I learned, for the first time, that the

Scheduling Order had been made, and that the pre-trial conference was set on February 23, 2007, and

the trial on March 26, 2007.

5. The parties have participated in mediation, and are still attempting to resolve this case

through mediation. The first mediation occurred on October 25, 2006. Thereafter, it was continued

several times to allow Defendants to obtain a DME and to take depositions, which I thought were

for purposes of a more meaningful mediation. We have currently scheduled March 14, 2007 for

further mediation.

6. Plaintiff would be prejudiced if the current discovery cutoffs and trial date remain in

that Plaintiff has not completed discovery, disclosed expert witnesses, or prepared for trial, as

counsel for Plaintiff was unaware of the Scheduling Order, and also believed that the case would be

resolved through mediation. 

I declare under penalty of perjury that the foregoing is true and correct, except as to matters

stated herein on information or belief, and as to those matters, I believe them to be true. 

Executed on this 13 day of February, 2007, at Roseville, California. th

/s/ALISA J. STEPHENS, Declarant

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STIPULATION AND PROPOSED ORDER TO MODIFY SCHEDULING ORDER, 

TO CONTINUE DISCOVERY CUTOFF DEADLINES, PRE-TRIAL CONFERENCE AND TRIAL DATE

ORDER

PURSUANT TO STIPULATION OF THE PARTIES, and good cause having been

established, 

the Court hereby amends the Scheduling Order of December 6, 2005 as follows: 

1. Dispositive motions shall be filed by June 8, 2007. Hearing on such motions shall

be on July 18, 2007 at 10:00 a.m. The opposition and reply must be filed by 4:00 p.m. on the day

due. 

2. All discovery shall be completed by June 15, 2007.

3. The parties shall make expert witness disclosures under FRCP 26(a)(2) by June 29,

 2007. Supplemental disclosure and disclosure of any rebuttal experts under FRCP 26(a)(2)(c) shall

be made by July 9, 2007. Expert discovery shall be completed by July 31, 2007.

4. The final pre-trial conference is set for August 10, 2007 at 2:00 p.m. The parties shall

file with the court, no later than seven (7) days prior to the final pre-trial conference, a joint pre-trial

 statement. 

5. Trial in this matter is set for September 10, 2007 at 9:00 a.m.

IT IS SO ORDERED.

DATED: 02/16/2007

/s/ David F. Levi 

DAVID F. LEVI, United States District Judge

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