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

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Case No. 4:19-cv-05604-PJH

STIPULATION AND PROPOSED ORDERING CONTINUING ADR DEADLINE

REED SMITH LLP 

A limited liability partnership formed in the State of Delaware

Scott R. Samay (pro hac vice)

Email: ssamay@lernerdavid.com

Keith E. Gilman (pro hac vice)

Email: kgilman@lernerdavid.com

Alexander Solo (pro hac vice)

Email: asolo@lernerdavid.com

LERNER DAVID LITTENBERG, KRUMHOLZ 

& MENTLIK LLP

20 Commerce Drive

Cranford, NJ 07016

Telephone: +1 908 654 5000

Facsimile: +1 908 654 7866

William R. Overend SBN 180209

Email: woverend@reedsmith.com

REED SMITH LLP

101 Second Street

Suite 1800

San Francisco, CA 94105-3659

Telephone: +1 415 543 8700

Facsimile: +1 415 391 8269

Attorneys for Defendant Stryker Spine SA

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

OAKLAND DIVISION

ACANTHA LLC,

Plaintiff,

vs.

STRYKER SPINE SA

Defendant.

Case No. 4:19-cv-05604-PJH

STIPULATION AND [PROPOSED] 

ORDER CONTINUING ADR DEADLINE

Honorable Phyllis J. Hamilton

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– 1 – Case No. 4:19-cv-05604-PJH

STIPULATION AND PROPOSED ORDERING CONTINUING ADR DEADLINE

REED SMITH LLP 

A limited liability partnership formed in the State of Delaware

Pursuant to Civil Local Rules 6-2 and 7-12, Plaintiff Acantha LLC and Defendant Stryker 

Spine SA (“Stryker”), by and through their undersigned counsel, hereby stipulate to continue the 

March 31, 2020 date originally selected by the parties, and ordered by the Court (ECF No. 41), as the 

deadline for conducting ADR proceedings. 

The parties are requesting an extension of this deadline in light of scheduling issues that have 

arisen in part due to the COVID-19 pandemic. State and corporate travel restrictions have affected 

both parties’ ability to travel to an in-person mediation. The parties have discussed conducting a 

virtual mediation, if necessary, and are in the process of scheduling a mediation before the Honorable 

Jay Gandhi to occur—either virtually or in person—on June 17, 2020. As a result of the pandemic’s 

continuing impact and the mediator’s schedule, the parties respectfully request until June 30 to 

complete the mediation. 

The parties have not previously sought an extension of the ADR deadline. At the parties’ 

request, the Court has previously extended the deadline for Defendants to answer or respond to the 

Complaint, and the date of the Initial Case Management Conference. The extension requested here 

would not affect any other deadlines in the case.

Respectfully submitted,

Dated: March 31, 2020 REED SMITH LLP

By: /s/ William Overend1

William Overend 

101 Second Street, Suite 1800

San Francisco, CA 94105-3659

Telephone: (415) 543-8700

woverend@reedsmith.com

Dated: March 31, 2020 LERNER DAVID LITTENBERG KRUMHOLZ & 

MENTLIK LLP

By: /s/ Scott R. Samay

Scott R. Samay (admitted pro hac vice)

Keith E. Gilman (admitted pro hac vice)

Alexander Solo (admitted pro hac vice)

20 Commerce Drive

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 In compliance with Civil Local Rule 5-1, I hereby attest that concurrence in the filing of this 

document has been obtained from each of the other signatories hereto. 

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STIPULATION AND PROPOSED ORDERING CONTINUING ADR DEADLINE

REED SMITH LLP 

A limited liability partnership formed in the State of Delaware

Cranford, NJ 07016

ssamay@lernerdavid.com

kgilman@lernerdavid.com

asolo@LDLKM.COM

Counsel for Defendant Stryker Spine SA

Dated: March 31, 2020 STEYER LOWENTHAL BOODROOKAS

ALVAREZ & SMITH LLP

By: /s/ Jill M. Manning

Jill M. Manning 

235 Pine Street, 15th Floor

San Francisco, California 94104

Telephone: (415) 421-3400

Facsimile: (415) 421-2234

jmanning@steyerlaw.com

Dated: March 31, 2020 CALDWELL CASSADY & CURRY

By: /s/ Christopher S. Stewart

Bradley W. Caldwell (admitted pro hac vice)

John Austin Curry (admitted pro hac vice)

Christopher S. Stewart (admitted pro hac vice)

2121 N. Pearl Street, 12th Floor, 

Dallas, Texas 75201 

Telephone: (214) 888-4848 

Facsimile: (214) 888-4849

bcaldwell@caldwellcc.com

acurry@caldwellcc.com

cstewart@caldwellcc.com

Counsel for Plaintiff Acantha LLC

ORDER

PURSUANT TO STIPULATION, IT IS SO ORDERED. The deadline for the parties to 

complete Private Mediation ADR is continued from March 31, 2020 to June 30, 2020.

DATED: ____March 31, 2020_______ BY: __/s/ Phyllis J. Hamilton______________

THE HONORABLE PHYLLIS J. HAMILTON

UNITED STATES DISTRICT JUDGE

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