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Nature of Suit Code: 365
Nature of Suit: Personal Injury - Product Liability
Cause of Action: 28:1332 Diversity-Product Liability

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ORDER RE MOTION TO AMEND

TODD M. NOONAN (SBN 172962)

DLA PIPER LLP (US)

400 Capitol Mall, Suite 2400

Sacramento, CA 95814-4428

Tel: 916.930.3200

Fax: 916.930.3201

MATTHEW J. EVANS (admitted pro hac vice)

JOHN W. ELDER (admitted pro hac vice)

PAINE | BICKERS, LLP

900 S. Gay Street, Suite 2200

Knoxville, TN 37902

Tel: 865.525.0880

Attorneys for Defendants

GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY, 

GE HEALTHCARE INC., and

GE HEALTHCARE AS

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

CARSON HAMMERSLEY, et al., 

Plaintiffs,

v.

GENERAL ELECTRIC, et al., 

Defendants.

CASE NO. 2:13-cv-0826-TLN-AC

ORDER GRANTING JOINT MOTION TO 

AMEND THE SCHEDULING ORDER AND 

CONTINUE TRIAL

 MODIFIED FROM SUBMITTED VERSION

The Parties have filed a Motion to Amend the Pretrial Scheduling Order in this matter and 

to continue the currently scheduled trial date. The Court, having considered the grounds set forth 

in the Parties’ Joint Motion, finds that the Motion is well taken, and is hereby GRANTED. The 

Court hereby ORDERS that:

1. The Scheduling Order (Doc. 66) entered on January 29, 2014, as previously 

amended (Doc. 81), is amended to provide the following deadlines: 

a. Disclosure of supplemental reports from Plaintiffs’ previously disclosed 

experts, as well as new experts solely limited to issues related to Plaintiff 

Carson Hammersley’s cause of death, pathology obtained during the autopsy 

and related opinions regarding pre-death pathology, shall be completed by 

July 1, 2015.

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b. Defendants’ disclosure of new rebuttal experts and supplemental reports 

from previously disclosed experts, in response to Plaintiffs’ disclosure on 

July 1, 2015, shall be completed by July 31, 2015.

c. All expert discovery shall be completed by September 1, 2015.

d. All dispositive motions shall be heard by November 5, 2015.

e. The parties shall file, not later than January 7, 2016, a Joint Final Pretrial 

Conference Statement. 

f. The Final Pretrial Conference is reset for January 14, 2016 at 2:00 p.m.

g. Trial Briefs shall be filed not later than fourteen (14) days before trial

h. The trial of this case shall commence on March 7, 2016 at 9:00 a.m.

IT IS SO ORDERED.

Dated: March 11, 2015

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