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Nature of Suit Code: 190
Nature of Suit: Other Contract Actions
Cause of Action: 28:1332 Diversity-Other Contract

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United States District Court

For the Northern District of California

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IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

ILWU-PMA WELFARE PLAN BOARD

OF TRUSTEES and ILWU-PMA

WELFARE PLAN,

Plaintiffs,

 v.

CONNECTICUT GENERAL LIFE

INSURANCE COMPANY, et al.,

Defendants. /

No. C 15-02965 WHA

ORDER RE JOINT REQUESTS

FOR MORE DEPOSITIONS AND

TO CONTINUE PRETRIAL

DEADLINES AND TRIAL DATE

The Court is in receipt of the parties’ joint requests to take more than ten depositions

each (Dkt. No. 70), and to continue pretrial deadlines and the trial date (Dkt. No. 71). The

Court has learned the hard way not to automatically grant requests for more depositions. After

the parties exhaust their ten allowed depositions, and if the attorneys involved behave

themselves during those depositions, then more will be granted. Accordingly, the instant

request for more depositions is DENIED without prejudice to the parties renewing the request

after taking ten depositions each. 

Similarly, the parties’ request to continue pretrial deadlines and the trial date is DENIED,

but the parties may renew this request in January 2017. In the renewed request, the parties shall

update the Court on the status of the case, including all depositions taken between now and

then, so the Court can determine whether sufficient progress has been made to justify granting a

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United States District Court

For the Northern District of California

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continuance. The parties shall please note that the “holidays” are not a good reason to slow

down work on the case. 

IT IS SO ORDERED.

Dated: November 7, 2016. 

WILLIAM ALSUP

UNITED STATES DISTRICT JUDGE

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