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Nature of Suit Code: 791
Nature of Suit: Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA)
Cause of Action: 28:1132 E.R.I.S.A.

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SHEPHERD FINKELMAN MILLER

 & SHAH, LLP 

Ronald S. Kravitz (SBN 129704) 

Kolin C. Tang (SBN 279834) 

One California Street, Suite 900 

San Francisco, CA 94111 

Tel.: (415) 429-5272 

Fax: (866) 300-7367 

E-Mail: rkravitz@sfmslaw.com 

 ktang@sfmslaw.com 

DUCKWORTH PETERS LEBOWITZ 

 OLIVIER, LLP 

Monique Olivier (SBN 190385) 

100 Bush Street, Suite 1800 

San Francisco, CA 94104 

Tel: (415) 433-0333 

Fax: (415) 449-6556 

Email: monique@dplolaw.com 

Attorneys for Plaintiff and the Plan 

[Additional Counsel Listed On Signature Page] 

TRUCKER  HUSS 

R. Bradford Huss 

Angel L. Garrett 

Dylan D. Rudolph 

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, No. 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 Safeway Defendants 

IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

MARIA KARLA TERRAZA Individually and 

On Behalf of the SAFEWAY 401(K) PLAN, 

 Plaintiff, 

v. 

SAFEWAY INC., et al. 

 Defendants. 

 

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ORDER

Assigned to Hon. Jon S. Tigar 

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STIPULATION 

Plaintiff, Maria Karla Terraza, and Defendants, Defendants, Safeway Inc. (“Safeway”), 

the Benefit Plans Committee Safeway Inc. n/k/a Albertsons Companies Retirement Benefit Plans 

Committee (“Benefit Plans Committee”), Peter J. Bocian, David F. Bond, Michael J. Boylan, 

Robert B. Dimond, Laura A. Donald, Dennis J. Dunne, Robert L. Edwards, Bradley S. Fox, 

Bernard L. Hardy, Russell M. Jackson, Peggy Jones, Suz-Ann Kirby, Robert Larson, Melissa C. 

Plaisance, Paul Rowan and Andrew J. Scoggin (the “Safeway Defendants”), as well as Defendant, 

Aon Hewitt Investment Consulting, Inc. (“Aon” and, collectively with the Safeway Defendants, 

“Defendants”), through their counsel, hereby stipulate and agree that: 

WHEREAS, the initial complaint was filed against Safeway Inc. and the Benefits Plans 

Committee Safeway Inc. on July 14, 2016; 

WHEREAS, the Rule 16(b) conference was held, and the Court then issued the current 

scheduling order on March 15, 2017 (ECF No. 67), setting the discovery, pre-trial and trial dates, 

at a time when Aon was not a party in the Action; 

WHEREAS, after that case management order, Plaintiff and the Safeway Defendants 

stipulated to an amendment to the Complaint to add Aon as a defendant for the first time in this 

Action as part of the Second Amended Complaint, and that Second Amended Complaint was 

filed on March 31, 2017. 

WHEREAS, Aon filed a motion to dismiss the Second Amended Complaint on June 22, 

2017 and the matter was briefed over the summer; 

WHEREAS, after vacating the initial argument date, the Court heard oral argument on 

Aon’s motion to dismiss on November 2, 2017, and the matter remains under submission; 

WHEREAS, the Plaintiff and Safeway Defendants have exchanged certain initial 

disclosures, have engaged in written discovery and have been in the process of scheduling 

depositions; 

WHEREAS, the Plaintiff and Aon served written discovery on the other following the 

argument on Aon’s motion to dismiss argument, but the document productions are not yet due 

and the scope of the claims is still disputed; 

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WHEREAS, depositions are currently being scheduled to take place over the next sixty 

days, and additional written discovery remains to be completed; 

WHEREAS, the Parties have been working diligently and cooperatively to prepare this 

case for trial, while also pursuing their efforts in a manner designed to avoid imposing undue 

burdens or expenses on any of the Parties, in particular as to Aon and the pendency of its Motion 

to Dismiss; 

WHEREAS, in light of the above and despite the Parties’ diligent efforts to cooperate, the 

Parties believe that the current schedule will not provide adequate time to complete discovery, 

expert disclosures, dispositive motions, and trial, by virtue of the number of defendants, the scope 

of document discovery demanded, and the need for an adequate opportunity for discovery related 

to Aon upon understanding the scope of the claims against it.1

 The Parties therefore respectfully 

request that the Court continue the case deadlines as detailed below, which represents a ninety 

(90) day continuance of all deadlines, and that the pretrial conference date be moved to a date 

convenient for the Court in or after September, 2018, and the trial be moved to a date convenient 

for the Court in or after October, 2018 on the Court’s first available trial dates;2

WHEREAS, the Parties have not previously requested any extensions of the pretrial or 

trial dates in this case; 

WHEREAS, Plaintiffs also propose that the Court reschedule the next Case Management 

Conference, currently set for December 13, 2017 to a date in early 2018; 

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

subject to the approval of the Court, to the following schedule: 

__________, 2018, at 2 p.m. Case Management Conference 

March 22, 2018 Deadline to complete fact discovery. 

 

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 In addition, while not offered as a principal reason for the requested change, counsel for Aon (Randall Edwards) 

also requests the Court’s accommodation of the requested change because of a long-scheduled window of time 

allotted to counsel in mid-July 2018 to attempt to swim the English Channel, which requires advanced scheduling of 

a year or more for pilot and boat booking. 

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 Counsel for the Parties have also met and conferred with counsel for Plaintiff in the Lorenz matter, and anticipate 

submitting a stipulation in that case proposing an identical modification of the schedule in that case. 

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April 12, 2018 Deadline for expert disclosures. 

May 2, 2018 Deadline for expert rebuttal. 

May 21, 2018 Deadline to complete expert discovery. 

June 15, 2018 Deadline to file dispositive motions. 

September 5, 2018 Deadline to file pretrial conference statement. 

September __, 2018, at 2 p.m. Pretrial Conference 

October __, 2018, at ____ Trial (eight court days) 

Dated: November 29, 2017 SHEPHERD FINKELMAN 

MILLER & SHAH LLP 

/s/ James E. Miller* 

James E. Miller 

Dated: November 29, 2017 TRUCKER  HUSS 

/s/ R. Bradford Huss R. Bradford Huss 

Dated: November 29, 2017 O’MELVENY & MYERS LLP 

/s/ Randall W. Edwards Randall W. Edwards 

*Pursuant to L.R. 5-1(i)(3) regarding signatures, I, James E. Miller, attest that concurrence 

in the filing of this document has been obtained from each of the other signatories. 

/s/ James E. Miller 

James E. Miller 

 

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O’MELVENY & MYERS LLP 

Brian D. Boyle (CSB 126576) 

Randall W. Edwards (CSB 179053) 

Adam Kaplan (CSB 298077) 

Two Embarcadero Center, 28th Floor 

San Francisco, CA 94111 

Tel: (415) 984-8700 

Fax: (415) 984-9701 

Email: bboyle@omm.com 

redwards@omm.com 

akaplan@omm.com 

Attorneys for Defendant Aon Hewitt Investment Consulting, Inc. 

 

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[PROPOSED] ORDER 

IT SO ORDERED. 

The next Case Management Conference shall be held on January ___, 2018, at 2:00 pm. 

The Pretrial Conference shall be held on __________________, 2018, at 2 p.m., and the trial 

shall commence on _____________________, 2018, with eight (8) days reserved for trial. 

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 Jon S. Tigar, J 

September 7

October 22

The parties shall file a joint pretrial conference 

statement on or before August 28, 2018. Dated: November 30, 2017 24

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