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Nature of Suit Code: 450
Nature of Suit: Interstate Commerce
Cause of Action: 28:1331 Fed. Question: Interstate Commerce Act

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28 _____________________________________________________________________________ STIPULATION RE EXTENSION OF DISCOVERY AND MOTION-FILING DEADLINES; 

AND ORDER THEREON 

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Kathleen C. Jeffries (State Bar #110362) 

SCOPELITIS, GARVIN, LIGHT, HANSON & FEARY, LLP 

2 North Lake Avenue, Suite 460 

Pasadena, California 91101 

Telephone: (626) 795-4700 

Facsimile: (626) 795-4790 

kjeffries@scopelitis.com 

Attorneys for Defendants 

YRC INC. and ROADWAY REVERSE LOGISTICS, INC. 

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 

EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 

STARR INDEMNITY & LIABILITY 

COMPANY, a corporation, 

 Plaintiff, 

 v. 

YRC INC., a corporation; ROADWAY 

REVERSE LOGISTICS, INC., a 

corporation; and DOES ONE through 

FIFTEEN, 

 Defendants. 

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Case No. 1:13−CV−01996−AWI−GSA

STIPULATION RE FURTHER 

EXTENSION OF DISCOVERY 

DEADLINES AND CORRESPONDING 

EXTENSION OF MOTION-FILING 

DEADLINE; AND ORDER THEREON 

Trial Date: March 24, 2015 

IT IS HEREBY STIPULATED by and between the parties to this 

action, plaintiff Starr Indemnity & Liability Company (“Starr Indemnity”) and 

defendants YRC Inc. (“YRC”) and Roadway Reverse Logistics, Inc. (collectively 

“defendants”), through their respective counsel of record, that the discovery 

deadlines in this case be extended an additional month to enable the parties 

to complete discovery, the progress of which has been hampered to date by a 

failure of cooperation of an essential third party, as more fully described 

below; and that the motion-filing deadline be correspondingly extended. 

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AND ORDER THEREON 

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Specifically, the parties respectfully request that the non-expert 

discovery cut-off and expert disclosure date be continued from September 8, 

2014 to October 10, 2014; that the rebuttal expert disclosure deadline be 

continued from September 22, 2014 to October 24, 2014; that the expert 

discovery cut-off date be continued from October 20, 2014 to November 21, 

2014; and that, based upon such continuances, the date for the filing of nondispositive and dispositive motions be continued from October 24, 2014 to 

November 24, 2014, with the pretrial conference and trial dates and all other 

orders contained in the Court’s scheduling order issued on February 14, 2014 

remaining in full force and effect. 

Good cause exists for this joint request. This case involves a 

request for reimbursement by plaintiff Starr Indemnity of sums paid to its 

insured for the alleged damage to two pieces of machinery transported by 

defendant YRC from Clovis, California to Chandler, Arizona in October 2012. 

Having coordinated the plans with plaintiff, defendants served deposition 

subpoenas upon three witnesses from the company from whom the machinery 

was received to address factual questions central to defendants’ defense 

position. However, none of the witnesses appeared for the scheduled 

depositions or notified counsel that no witnesses would appear. Steps are now 

being taken to reschedule such depositions and/or to gather the necessary 

information informally. Plaintiff’s counsel has agreed to hold its noticed Rule 

30(b)(6) deposition of defendant YRC in abeyance until the completion of such 

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non-party discovery process, provided that the requested extensions are 

granted. The parties seek additional time to complete both steps, with the aim 

of resolving the case through the use of the information gathered in such 

process. 

 

Dated: August 22, 2014 SCOPELITIS, GARVIN, LIGHT, HANSON 

 & FEARY, LLP 

 By: /s/ Kathleen C. Jeffries 

 Kathleen C. Jeffries 

 Attorneys for Defendants 

YRC INC. and ROADWAY REVERSE 

LOGISTICS, INC. 

Dated: August 21, 2014 GIBSON ROBB & LINDH, LLP 

By: /s/ Konstantin Savransky (as 

authorized on August 21, 2014) 

 Konstantin Savransky 

 Attorneys for Plaintiff 

STARR INDEMNITY & LIABILITY 

COMPANY 

ORDER 

The Court has reviewed the joint request and adopts the parties’ 

stipulation in part. The Court has made slight modifications to the deadlines 

because the dates proposed by the parties affect the pretrial and the trial 

dates.1 Accordingly, the scheduling order issued on February 6, 2014 (Doc. 

10) is modified as follows: 

 The non-expert discovery cut-off is October 10, 2014; 

 

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 The Court requires certain spacing between the filing of motions so that there is ample time for rulings to be 

made. 

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 The expert disclosure deadline is October 10, 2014; 

 The rebuttal expert is October 24, 2014; 

 The expert discovery cut-off date is November 21, 2014; 

 The deadline for filing non-dispositive motions is November 24, 2014; 

 The deadline for filing dispositive motions is January 2, 2015. 

 The pretrial conference and the trial dates are VACATED and will be reset 

after a ruling on the dispositive motions. 

 All other orders contained in the Court’s scheduling order issued on 

February 14, 2014 (Doc. 10) remain in full force and effect. A review of this 

case indicates that it may be ripe for settlement once the discovery is 

completed. The parties are strongly encouraged to notify the Court if 

settlement is a viable option. 

Dated: August 28, 2014 /s/ Gary S. Austin 

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