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Nature of Suit Code: 355
Nature of Suit: Motor Vehicle Product Liability
Cause of Action: 28:1332 Diversity-Motor Vehicle Product Liability

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28 STIPULATION TO AMEND PRELIMINARY SCHEDULING ORDER; CASE NO. CV 07-0137 LJO SMS

[PROPOSED] ORDER

Jerry N. Budin

State Bar #88539

Law Office of Jerry Budin

2401 E. Orangeburg Ave., Ste. 675-309

Modesto, California 95355

Telephone: (209) 544-3030

Facsimile: (209) 544-3144

Attorneys for Plaintiff, 

LEO BISHOP, individually

and on behalf of all others

similarly-situated

Brian L. Johnsrud, Esq.

State Bar # 184474

Jennifer Lockhart, Esq.

State Bar # 236972

Morgan, Lewis & Bockius, LLP

2 Palo Alto Square

3000 El Camino Real, Ste. 700

Palo Alto, CA 94306

Telephone: (650) 843-7555

Facsimile: (650) 843-4001

Attorneys for Defendants, 

PETRO-CHEMICAL TRANSPORTATION, INC.,

and KENAN ADVANTAGE GROUP, INC. 

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

(Fresno Division)

LEO BISHOP, individually ) CASE NO. CV 07-0137 LJO SMS

and on behalf of all others )

similarly-situated, ) STIPULATION TO AMEND 

) PRELIMINARY SCHEDULING

Plaintiff, ) ORDER; ORDER

)

vs. ) 

) 

PETRO-CHEMICAL TRANSPORT, INC., ) 

KENAN ADVANTAGE GROUP, INC. and ) 

DOES 1 through 100, ) 

Defendants. ) 

 )

It is hereby stipulated by and between the parties, through

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their respective attorneys, as follows:

1. Plaintiff has requested of defendant a short, one-week

extension to file his opposition papers and defendant has agreed to

that request. The extension is requested based on the following

circumstances:

2. As noted in the previous Stipulation filed herein on

February 28, 2008 (Doc. 40), defendant disclosed a “person most

knowledgeable” witness (Sophia McReynolds) on January 31, 2008, the

day that merit-based discovery closed in this matter under a

previous scheduling order. Defendants have submitted a declaration

from Ms. McReynolds in support of their motion for summary

judgment.

3. So as not to prejudice plaintiff, the defendant stipulated

to allow plaintiff to depose Ms. McReynolds and to extend the

deadlines in the court’s scheduling order. The court agreed to the

parties’ stipulation (Doc. 40).

4. Because Ms. McReynolds resides in Texas and because of

schedules of the parties’ attorneys, plaintiff could not depose Ms.

McReynolds until March 6, 2008.

5. The transcript of Ms. McReynolds’ deposition, which

plaintiff wishes to incorporate into his opposition, will not be

available until March 18, one day after the due date for

plaintiff’s opposition papers.

6. In addition, on March 13, 2008, defendant disclosed an

additional fifty-five (55) pages of documents which were

inadvertently not previously disclosed and which support the

declaration of Eric Blinn, who has submitted a declaration in

support of defendants’ motion for summary judgment. A short, oneCase 1:05-cv-00303-LJO-DLB Document 117 Filed 03/17/08 Page 2 of 4
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week continuance would allow Plaintiff time to analyze these

documents.

7. Based on the above, plaintiff requested that defendant

agree to a short, one-week extension so that plaintiff could

properly respond to defendants’ summary judgment motion. Defendant

agreed to that request, so long as the corresponding dates are also

continued by one week. 

 8. Therefore, the plaintiff, with the agreement of defendant,

requests that this court amend its Scheduling Order to extend the

following deadlines and hearing date by one (1) week:

Action Old Deadline New Deadline

Deadline for

plaintiff’s

opposition

March 17, 2008 March 24, 2008

Deadline for

defendant’s reply

March 31, 2008 April 7, 2008

Dispositive motion

hearing date

April 7, 2008 April 14, 2008

DATE: March 17, 2008 LAW OFFICE OF JERRY BUDIN

/s/ Jerry Budin _

Jerry Budin

Attorney for Plaintiff,

Leo BISHOP, individually

and on behalf of all others

similarly-situated

DATE: March 17, 2008 MORGAN, LEWIS & BOCKIUS, LLP

/s/ Jennifer Lockhart 

Jennifer Lockhart

Attorney for Defendants,

PETRO-CHEMICAL TRANSPORTATION,

INC., and KENAN ADVANTAGE

GROUP, INC

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ORDER

GOOD CAUSE APPEARING from the above stipulation, it is

ordered as follows:

1. The deadlines are extended as follows:

Action New Deadline

Deadline for plaintiff’s

opposition

March 24, 2008

Deadline for defendant’s reply April 7, 2008

Dispositive motion hearing

date

April 14, 2008

2. In all other respects, the Preliminary Scheduling Order

remains in effect.

IT IS SO ORDERED.

Dated: March 17, 2008 /s/ Lawrence J. O'Neill 

66h44d UNITED STATES DISTRICT JUDGE

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