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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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JOINT STIPULATION TO CONTINUE DEADLINE TO FILE DISPOSITIVE MOTIONS; [PROPOSED] ORDER 

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Trucker 

 Huss

A Professional Corporation

One Embarcadero Center, 12th Floor

San Francisco, California 94111

SCHNEIDER WALLACE COTTRELL 

KONECKY WOTKYNS, LLP

Kyle G. Bates (SBN 299114) 

Todd M. Schneider (SBN 158253)

James A. Bloom (SBN 311051)

Scott L. Gordon (SBN 319872)

Mark T. Johnson (SBN 76904)

Jason H. Kim (SBN 220279) 

2000 Powell Street, Ste. 1400

Emeryville, CA 94608

Tel.: (415) 421-7100

Fax: (415) 421-7105

E-Mail: tschneider@schneiderwallace.com 

 kbates@schneiderwallace.com

 jbloom@schneiderwallace.com

 sgordon@schneiderwallace.com

 mjohnson@schneiderwallace.com

 jkim@schneiderwallace.com

SCHNEIDER WALLACE COTTRELL 

KONECKY WOTKYNS, LLP

John J. Nestico

Garrett W. Wotkyns 

8501 North Scottsdale Road, Ste. 270

Scottsdale, AZ 85253

Telephone: (480) 428-0142

Facsimile: (866) 505-8036

E-Mail: jnestico@schneiderwallace.com 

 gwotkyns@schneiderwallace.com

Attorneys for Plaintiff 

TRUCKER  HUSS

R. Bradford Huss (SBN 71303)

Angel L. Garrett (SBN 255682)

Dylan D. Rudolph (SBN 278707)

One Embarcadero Center, 12th Floor

San Francisco, CA 94111

Tel: (415) 788-3111

Fax: (415) 421-2017

Email: bhuss@truckerhuss.com 

 agarrett@truckerhuss.com

 drudolph@truckerhuss.com

 

Joseph C. Faucher, (SBN 137353)

633 W. 5th Street, 28th 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., SAFEWAY BENEFIT 

PLANS COMMITTEE, and DOES 1 through 50, 

inclusive,

Defendants.

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

JOINT STIPULATION TO CONTINUE 

DEADLINE TO FILE DISPOSITIVE 

MOTIONS; [PROPOSED] ORDER

Assigned to Hon. Jon S. Tigar 

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Plaintiff, Dennis M. Lorenz (“Plaintiff”), and Defendants, Safeway Inc. (“Safeway”) and 

Safeway Benefit Plans Committee (“Benefit Plans Committee”), collectively (“Defendants”), 

through their counsel, hereby stipulate and agree that:

WHEREAS, Plaintiff filed a complaint against Defendants and Great-West Financial RPS 

LLC (“Great-West”) on August 25, 2016;

WHEREAS, Plaintiff filed an Amended Complaint on September 16, 2016 (Docket No. 7); 

WHEREAS, Plaintiff filed a Second Amended Complaint on November 21, 2016 (Docket 

No. 31); 

WHEREAS, the Court dismissed the claims against Great-West with prejudice and 

consequently removed Great-West as a defendant in this action on March 13, 2017 (Docket No. 58);

WHEREAS, Plaintiff filed a Third Amended Complaint on March 31, 2017 (Docket No. 

66);

WHEREAS, after the Court found this matter to be related to the case of Maria Karla 

Terraza v. Safeway Inc., et al. (No. 16-cv-03994-JST) (see Docket No. 26), the Parties in this matter 

and Terraza streamlined their discovery process; 

WHEREAS, the Parties Stipulated to Continue Case Deadlines, and this Court has entered 

orders continuing case deadlines on December 18, 2017 (Dkt. 79), February 21, 2018 (Dkt. 84), and 

April 27, 2018 (Dkt. 92);

WHEREAS, the Parties have exchanged initial disclosures, engaged in written discovery and 

exchange of documents, and taken 21 fact witness depositions;

WHEREAS, the Parties are in the expert discovery phase of this litigation and in the process 

of preparing and taking depositions of seven expert witnesses on or before the current deadline to 

complete expert witness on June 20, 1018; 

WHEREAS, although the Parties have been working diligently and cooperatively in the 

discovery process and in preparing this case for trial, the Parties believe that their most recent 

stipulation (Dkt. 92), which the Court entered prior to the deadline for expert disclosures, does not 

provide adequate time to complete expert discovery and file a dispositive motion. The current 

schedule only provides seven days between the deadline to complete expert discovery and the 

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deadline to file a dispositive motion. The Parties therefore respectfully request that the Court 

continue the deadline for filing dispositive motions from June 28, 2018 to July 6, 2018 with the 

opposition due on July 20, 2018, reply due on July 26, 2018, and the hearing on August 9, 2018;

WHEREAS, the Parties have previously made three requests to extend the deadlines for 

completing discovery and filing dispositive motions, and the pretrial and trial dates (Dkts. 79, 84, 

and 92);

WHEREAS, the Parties do not propose any change in the trial schedule or the remainder of 

the pretrial schedule;

NOW, THEREFORE, the Parties, through their respective counsel, hereby stipulate, subject 

to the approval of the Court, to continue the deadline to file dispositive motions from June 28, 2018 

to July 6, 2018 with the opposition due on July 20, 2018, reply due on July 26, 2018, and the 

hearing on August 9, 2018. 

IT IS SO STIPULATED.

DATED: June 19, 2018 TRUCKER  HUSS

By: /s/R. Bradford Huss

R. Bradford Huss

Attorneys for Defendants

SAFEWAY INC. and SAFEWAY BENEFIT 

PLANS COMMITTEE 

DATED: June 19, 2018 SCHNEIDER WALLACE COTTRELL 

KONECKY WOTKYNS, LLP

By: /s/Jason H. Kim

Jason H. Kim

Attorneys for Plaintiff 

I attest that my firm has obtained concurrence in the filing of this document from Jason H. 

Kim.

DATED: June 19, 2018

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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[PROPOSED] ORDER

Good cause exists for an order continuing the deadlines to file dispositive motions from June 

28, 2018 to July 6, 2018 with the opposition due on July 20, 2018, reply due on July 26, 2018, and 

the hearing on August 16, 2018, if the Court determines that oral argument is appropriate. 

DATED: June 22, 2018

Hon. Jon S. Tigar

United States District

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