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Nature of Suit Code: 480
Nature of Suit: Consumer Credit
Cause of Action: 15:1681 Fair Credit Reporting Act

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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

NORMA VIRIYAPUNT,

Plaintiff,

v.

CENTRAL STATE CREDIT UNION,

Defendant.

No. 2:24-cv-02078-DC-AC

SCHEDULING ORDER

Pursuant to Rule 16(b) of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, the court has reviewed the 

parties’ joint status report (Doc. No. 22) and has determined that the court need not “consult[] 

with the parties’ attorneys and any unrepresented parties at a scheduling conference,” before 

issuing a scheduling order in this case. Fed. R. Civ. P. 16(b)(1)(B). 

I. SERVICE OF PROCESS

The named defendant has been served as required by Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 5. 

No further service is permitted without leave of court, good cause having been shown under 

Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 16(b).

II. JOINDER OF ADDITIONAL PARTIES / AMENDMENT OF PLEADINGS

The parties do not anticipate the joinder of additional parties or amendment of the 

pleadings.

Any motions or stipulations requesting leave to amend the pleadings must be filed no later 

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than February 14, 2025, which is a date proposed by Plaintiff. No further joinder of parties or 

amendments to pleadings is permitted without leave of court, good cause having been shown. See

Fed. R. Civ. P. 16(b); Johnson v. Mammoth Recreations, Inc., 975 F.2d 27 604 (9th Cir. 1992).

The parties are advised that the filing of motions and/or stipulations requesting leave to amend the 

pleadings does not imply good cause to modify the existing schedule. Fed. R. Civ. P. 16 (b)(4); 

see also Johnson, 975 F. 2d at 609. Moreover, any amendment requested under Federal Rule of 

Civil Procedure 15(a) must not be: (1) prejudicial to the opposing party; (2) the product of undue 

delay; (3) proposed in bad faith; or (4) futile. See Foman v. Davis, 371 U.S. 178, 182 (1962).

III. DISCOVERY PROCEDURES

Discovery matters that do not implicate the schedule of the case are referred to the 

assigned magistrate judge, who will hear all discovery disputes subject to his or her procedures.

(The assigned magistrate judge’s initials follow the district judge’s initials next to the case 

number.) All discovery related filings must include the words “DISCOVERY MATTER” in the 

caption to ensure proper routing. Do not direct delivery of courtesy copies of these documents to 

the district judge. Counsel are directed to contact the magistrate judge’s courtroom deputy clerk 

to schedule discovery matters for hearing.

All motions to compel discovery must be noticed on the assigned magistrate judge’s

calendar in accordance with the local rules of this court and the magistrate judge’s own 

procedures. The written ruling of the assigned magistrate judge shall be final, subject to 

modification by the district court only where it has been shown that the magistrate judge’s order 

is clearly erroneous or contrary to law. See 28 U.S.C. § 636(b)(1)(A). Pursuant to Local Rule 303, 

any party may file and serve a “Request for Reconsideration by the District Court of Magistrate 

Judge’s Ruling.” See L.R. 303(c). The requesting party must file and serve any such request 

within fourteen (14) days of service of a written ruling. L.R. 303(b). The request must specify 

which portions of the ruling are clearly erroneous or contrary to law and the basis for that

contention with supporting points and authorities. L.R. 303(c).

In addition, the assigned magistrate judge reviews proposed discovery phase protective 

orders sought by the parties pursuant to Local Rule 141.1. However, any requests to seal or redact 

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in connection with trial or motions to be resolved by Judge Coggins must be directed to Judge 

Coggins and comply with her Standing Order and Local Rules 140 and 141.

IV. DISCOVERY DEADLINES

A. Rule 26(a) Initial Disclosures

The parties shall serve their initial disclosures pursuant to Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 

Rule 26(a)(1) no later than 14 days after the date of entry of this scheduling order. Fed. R. Civ. P. 

26(a)(1)(C).

Any parties served or joined after the issuance of this scheduling order shall “make the 

initial disclosures within 30 days after being served or joined,” as provided by Rule 26(a)(1)(D).

B. Fact Discovery1

All fact discovery shall be completed2no later than September 16, 2025.

The parties do not propose any limitations or changes to the governing provisions of the 

Federal Rules of Civil Procedure.

C. Expert Discovery

Disclosures of expert witnesses, if any, must be made pursuant to Federal Rule of Civil 

Procedure 26(a)(2)(A), (B) and (C), and shall include all information required thereunder. Each 

expert witness must be fully prepared to be examined on all subjects and opinions included in the 

disclosures. Failure to comply with these requirements may result in the imposition of appropriate 

sanctions, including the preclusion of the expert’s testimony, or of other evidence offered through 

the expert.

The parties shall disclose initial experts and produce reports in accordance with Federal 

1 The court declines Defendant’s invitation to postpone scheduling this case until the court 

resolves Defendant’s pending motion to dismiss (Doc. No. 15)—which challenges the sufficiency 

of only one of the two claims Plaintiff brings in this action.

2 As used herein, the word “completed” means that all discovery shall have been conducted so 

that all depositions have been taken and any disputes relevant to discovery shall have been 

resolved by appropriate order if necessary and, where discovery has been ordered, the order has 

been obeyed. The parties are advised that motions to compel must be filed in advance of the 

discovery completion deadlines so that the court may grant effective relief within the allotted 

discovery time. A party’s failure to have a discovery dispute heard sufficiently in advance of the 

discovery cutoff may result in denial of the motion as untimely.

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Rule of Civil Procedure 26(a)(2) by no later than October 16, 2025. With regard to expert 

testimony intended solely for rebuttal, those experts shall be disclosed and reports produced in 

accordance with Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 26(a)(2) on or before November 17, 2025.

All expert discovery shall be completed no later than December 17, 2025.

V. MOTIONS

All motions, except motions for continuances, temporary restraining orders, or other 

emergency applications, shall be filed on or before February 17, 2026 and shall be noticed for 

hearing before Judge Coggins on a date not more than 60 days from the date the motion is filed 

and on a date that is listed on Judge Coggins’s website as an available civil law and motion 

hearing date. Counsel are directed to refer to the local rules regarding the requirements for 

noticing and opposing such motions on the court’s regularly scheduled law and motion calendar.

Prior to filing a motion for summary judgment or motion for partial summary judgment 

(summary adjudication), the parties are ordered to meet and confer, in person or by telephone, to 

discuss the issues to be raised in the motion. In addition to complying with the requirements of 

Local Rule 260, the parties must prepare a Joint Statement of Undisputed Facts, which identifies 

all relevant facts subject to agreement by all parties. The moving party is responsible for filing the 

joint statement concurrently with the motion. In the notice of motion, the moving party shall 

certify that the parties have met and conferred as ordered above or provide a statement of good 

cause for the failure to do so.

The parties shall refer to Judge Coggins’s Standing Order for her procedures with regard 

to the filing of cross-motions for summary judgment and related briefing.

VI. SETTLEMENT CONFERENCE

The undersigned requires parties to participate in a court-supervised settlement conference 

with a settlement judge before the action may proceed to trial. A settlement conference has not 

been set at this time. At any time before the final pretrial conference, the parties may file a joint 

request that this action be referred to a settlement judge for the setting of a settlement conference.

If the parties have not participated in a court-supervised settlement conference by the time of the 

final pretrial conference, the court will refer the action at that time to the assigned magistrate 

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judge for the setting of a settlement conference. The parties shall contact the designated 

settlement conference judge’s chambers to ascertain that judge’s settlement conference 

procedures, including the procedure for submitting confidential settlement statements, which shall 

not be filed and will not otherwise be disclosed to the trial judge.

Unless otherwise permitted in advance by the court, the attorneys who will try the case 

shall appear at the settlement conference. Pertinent evidence to be offered at trial, documents or 

otherwise, should be brought to the settlement conference for presentation to the settlement judge.

Neither the settlement conference statements nor communications during the settlement 

conference with the settlement judge can be used by either party in the trial of this case.

Absent permission from the court, in addition to counsel who will try the case being 

present, the individual parties shall also be present, and in the case of corporate parties, 

associations or other entities, and insurance carriers, a representative executive with unrestricted 

authority to discuss, consider, propose and agree, or disagree, to any settlement proposal or offer 

shall also be present. If for any reason the representative with unlimited authority cannot attend, 

such a person must be available by phone or video throughout the conference. In other words, 

having settlement authority “up to a certain amount” is not acceptable. 

VII. FINAL PRETRIAL CONFERENCE

The court will not set a final pretrial conference date in this scheduling order. Instead, 

upon resolution of any motions filed by the deadline set forth in Section V of this order, or upon 

the expiration of that deadline if no such motions were filed, the court will set a date for a final 

pretrial conference, which will be conducted in person in Courtroom 8. The court will not 

entertain requests to conduct the final pretrial conference by Zoom.

The parties are directed to file a joint pretrial statement, carefully prepared and executed 

by all counsel, that complies with the requirements of this Local Rule 281 and Judge Coggins’s

Standing Order. Counsel shall also email a copy of the joint pretrial statement in Word format to 

Judge Coggins’s chambers at dcorders@caed.uscourts.gov. The parties’ attention is directed to 

Local Rules 281 and 282. This court will insist upon strict compliance with these rules.

At the final pretrial conference, the court will set a trial date and deadlines to file trial 

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documents, including motions in limine, trial briefs, and proposed jury voir dire, instructions, and 

verdict forms (where applicable). In addition, at the final pretrial conference, the parties shall

have a joint list of proposed trial dates that are within 60 to 120 days from the date of the final 

pretrial conference, and the parties shall be prepared to confirm a trial date.

VIII. REQUEST FOR BIFURCATION, APPOINTMENT OF SPECIAL MASTER, OR 

OTHER TECHNIQUES TO SHORTEN TRIAL

The parties have not made any such requests at this time and do not anticipate any such 

requests.

IX. RELATED MATTERS PENDING

There is no related litigation.

X. OBJECTIONS AND MODIFICATIONS TO THE SCHEDULING ORDER

This case schedule will become final without further order of the court unless 

objections are filed within fourteen (14) days of the entry of this order. The schedule, once 

final, shall not be modified except by leave of court upon showing of good cause. The assigned 

magistrate judge is authorized to modify the discovery dates set forth in Section IV of this order, 

but only to the extent that any such modification does not impact the motions filing deadline set 

forth in Section V of this order. A stipulation or request by the parties to modify only the 

discovery deadlines shall therefore be directed to the assigned magistrate judge.

The parties are reminded that pursuant to Rule 16(b) of the Federal Rules of Civil 

Procedure, no stipulations extending scheduling requirements or modifying applicable rules are 

effective until and unless the court approves them. Agreement of the parties by stipulation alone 

does not constitute good cause. Any request or stipulation to modify this scheduling order must 

set forth:

(1) the existing due date or hearing date as well as the discovery cutoff date, and the 

last date for filing motions; 

(2) whether there have been prior requests for extensions, and whether these were 

granted or denied by the court; and

(3) specific, concrete reasons supporting good cause for granting of the extension. For 

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example, if the reason for the requested extension is that it “will promote 

settlement,” the requesting party or parties must indicate the status of ongoing 

negotiations, i.e., have written proposals been exchanged; is counsel in the process 

of reviewing a draft settlement agreement; has a mediator been selected.

IT IS SO ORDERED.

Dated: December 18, 2024 ___________________________

Dena Coggins

United States District Judge

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