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Nature of Suit Code: 110
Nature of Suit: Insurance
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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ORDER GRANTING STAY OF DISCOVERY AND SETTING CASE MANAGEMENT CONFERENCE

No. C-07-01545 RMW

TSF

United States District Court

For the Northern District of California

E-filed: 3/27/2008 

IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

SAN JOSE DIVISION

AMERICAN HARDWARE MUTUAL

INSURANCE COMPANY

Plaintiff,

v.

JUAN ESCAMILLA INDIVIDUALLY AND

DBA WILSON'S TIRE SERVICE and JULIE

FIGUEROA, INCLUSIVE,

Defendants.

No. C-07-01545 RMW

ORDER GRANTING STAY OF DISCOVERY

AND SETTING CASE MANAGEMENT

CONFERENCE

[Re Docket No. 35]

American Hardware Mutual Insurance Company ("American Hardware") moves for a

protective order to stay discovery on Juan Escamilla and Julie Figueroa's claims for bad faith and

punitive damages until various legal issues are potentially resolved on summary judgment. On the

date of the hearing on American Hardware's motion, American Hardware filed the allegedly

dispositive motion for summary judgment.

At the hearing, the court ordered the parties appear for a case management conference on

April 18, 2008 at 10:30. The parties are to file a case management statement by April 11, 2008

explaining what, if any, discovery is needed for Escamilla and Figueroa to file their oppositions to

American Hardware's motion for summary judgment and how much discovery Escamilla and

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Figueroa intend to conduct. In the meantime, the court finds that avoiding the expense of potentially

unnecessary discovery constitutes good cause for issuing a protective order staying discovery on the

bad faith and punitive damages claims until the case management conference on April 18, 2008.

DATED: 3/26/2008 

RONALD M. WHYTE

United States District Judge

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Notice of this document has been e-mailed to:

Counsel for Plaintiff:

Robert A. Ford ford@lbbslaw.com

Rene I. Gamboa gamboa@lbbslaw.com

Kathleen Elizabeth Hegen HEGEN@lbbslaw.com

Counsel for Defendants:

Robert Louis Mezzetti , II rob@mezzettilaw.com

David Walter Wessel dwessel@chdlawyers.com

Counsel are responsible for distributing copies of this document to co-counsel that have not

registered for e-filing under the court's CM/ECF program.

Dated: 3/27/08 TSF

Chambers of Judge Whyte

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