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Nature of Suit Code: 110
Nature of Suit: Insurance
Cause of Action: 28:1332 Diversity-Insurance Contract

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GRIMM, VRANJES, MCCORMICK & GRAHAM LLP

A. Carl Yaeckel (SBN 89920)

cyaeckel@gvmglaw.com

550 West C Street, Suite 1100

Post Office Box 129012

San Diego, California 92112-9012

Telephone: (619) 231-8802

Fax: (619) 233-6039

Attorneys for Defendant NORTH AMERICAN CAPACITY INSURANCE

COMPANY

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

BINGLEY LAND COMPANY,

INC., a California corporation;

INTERSTATELANDCOMPANY,

INC., a California corporation; and

INTERSTATELANDCOMPANY,

LLC, a California limited liability

company,

Plaintiffs,

v.

NORTH AMERICAN CAPACITY

INSURANCE COMPANY, a

Corporation, a New Hampshire

corporation, and Does 1 through 40, 

Defendants.

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CASE NO: 1:08-cv-01869-LJO-SMS

JOINT SCHEDULING STIPULATION

AND ORDER

The parties hereto do stipulate and agree as follows:

1. This is an insurance bad faith lawsuit. All causes of action herein pertain

to insurance policies issued by Defendants providing Commercial General Liability

coverage to Plaintiffs.

2. The allegations herein relate to Defendant’s conditional denial of

coverage to Plaintiffs in an underlying construction defect lawsuit, Ramos v.

Interstate Land Company, LLC. This case remains pending in the Superior Court for

the County of Kern, State of California.

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3. Plaintiffs had filed a second action against Defendants which was also

before this court, Case No. 1:09-cv-00148-LJO (SMS), Bingley Land Company, Inc.

v. North American Capacity Insurance Company. The allegations in that case were

essentially the same as in the present case, except that they were based on NAC’s

conditional denial of coverage to Plaintiffs in a different underlying construction

defect lawsuit, Zendejas v. Interstate Land Company, Inc., LLC.

4. The original Scheduling Conference Order in this case of January 26,

2009, set trial for March 22, 2010.

5. As a result of the filing of the Complaint and subsequent Scheduling

Conference in Case No. 1:09-cv-00148-LJO (SMS), an Amended Scheduling

Conference Order was issued May 4, 2009, with a jury trial date of June 7, 2010. 

Other deadlines were set as part of that Order, including a discovery deadline of

February 12, 2010.

6. Mediations during calendar year 2009 in the Zendejas lawsuit resulted

in its recent settlement. As a result of that settlement, the case of Bingley Land

Company, Inc. v. Interstate, Case No. 1:09-cv-00148-LJO (SMS), was subject to a

joint motion to dismiss, and is now fully resolved.

7. Attempts to mediate the Ramos case were delayed, pending mediation

of the Zendejas case, because both cases involved essentially the same parties,

attorneys, and mediator. It was believed that settlement of Zendejas would facilitate

settlement of Ramos.

8. The mediation schedule in the case underlying the current lawsuit,

Ramos v. Interstate, is such that meaningful attempts at global resolution of that case

is likely to occur subsequent to the current trial date of June 7, 2010.

9. Based on consultation with the mediator in Ramos case, Mr. Gerald

Kurland, counsel for the defendant, A. Carl Yaeckel, Esq., is informed and believes

that mediation efforts involving Plaintiffs are scheduled to occur during the time

period May through August 2010.

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10. The parties believe that meaningfulsettlement efforts with regard to this

case are dependent upon, and should take place as part of, the mediation in the

underlying Ramos case. This can occur only if a change in the currently scheduled

trial date in this action is made by the Court.

11. The parties seek to avoid the cost of completion of discovery in this

action, and particularly of expert discovery, while efforts to mediate the Ramos case

and to settle this case are underway. Plaintiffs herein also may seek to take

depositions which will have to occur out-of-state and the parties seek to avoid that

cost as well.

12. Therefore, the parties believe good cause exists for continuance of this

trial date for a period of months, with continuance of the deadlines for discovery and

motions to also be continued accordingly. The parties would propose the following

dates, or such other dates as the court deems appropriate:

Jury Trial Date (estimate six days) - (Old Date June 7, 2010)

New Date: October 18, 2010.

Pre-Trial Conference Date - September 21, 2010

Dispositive Motion Filing Deadline - August 17, 2010

Non-Dispositive Motion Filing Deadline - July 30, 1010

Discovery Deadline - July 30, 2010

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IT IS SO STIPULATED.

Dated: January 20, 2010 GRIMM VRANJES

McCORMICK & GRAHAM, LLP

By: /s/ A. Carl Yaeckel 

A. CARL YAECKEL

Attorneys for Defendant NORTH

AMERICAN CAPACITY

INSURANCE COMPANY

Dated: January 20, 2010 McCARTNEY & ASSOCIATES

By: /s/ N. Thomas McCartney 

N. THOMAS McCARTNEY

Attorneys for Plaintiff, BINGLEY

LAND COMPANY, INC.;

INTERSTATE LAND COMPANY,

INC.; and INTERSTATE LAND

COMPANY, LLC

 ORDER

GOOD CAUSE APPEARING, the Scheduling Conference Order is amended

as follows:

Discovery Deadline: July 30, 2010

Non-Dispositive Motion Filing Deadline: July 30, 2010

Dispositive Motion Filing Deadling: August 17, 2010

Pre-Trial Conference Date: September 21, 2010 at 8:30 a.m.

Before the Honorable Lawrence J. O’Neill,

United States District Judge

Jury Trial Date: November 1, 2010 at 8:30 a.m. Before

the Honorable Lawrence J. O’Neill, United

States District Judge

IT IS SO ORDERED.

Dated: January 25, 2010 /s/ Lawrence J. O'Neill 

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b9ed48 UNITED STATES DISTRICT JUDGE

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