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Nature of Suit Code: 350
Nature of Suit: Motor Vehicle Personal Injury
Cause of Action: 28:1446 Petition for Removal- Personal Injury

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Ralph W. Robinson (State Bar No. 51436)

Christine Starkie (State Bar No. 226354)

WILSON, ELSER, MOSKOWITZ,

EDELMAN & DICKER LLP

650 California Street, 14th Floor

San Francisco, California 94108-2718

Telephone: (415) 433-0990

Facsimile: (415) 434-1370

Attorneys for Defendants

COVENANT TRANSPORT, INC. 

and MITCHELL KEVIN LA FLEUR

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

MICHAEL J. ARPAIA, MYONG HUI

ARPAIA, GEOFFREY S. NICOLLE, and

JULIE DAHL-NICOLLE,

Plaintiffs,

v.

COVENANT TRANSPORTATION, INC., 

MITCHELL KEVIN LA FLEUR and DOES 1

through 100, inclusive,

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STIPULATION EXTENDING CASE

SCHEDULE DEADLINES SET FORTH

IN SCHEDULING CONFERNCE

ORDER (L.Rs. 83-143, 6-144);

[PROPOSED] ORDER

On or about May 20, 2004, Plaintiffs initiated this Litigation by filing a complaint

for motor vehicle and loss of consortium causes of action in the Superior Court of

California, County of Merced. On or about July 6, 2004 the case was removed to the

United States District Court, Eastern District of California. On October 12, 2004 this

Court issued a scheduling conference order, as outlined below. 

Expert disclosure is currently due July 1, 2005. The parties have been conducting

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discovery, which is still ongoing. An inspection of the evidence collected by the CHP

and MAIT is being conducted on June 29, 2005. This is only two days before expert

disclosure is due, and this inspection will likely be significant to the experts’ opinions. 

Furthermore, not all subpoenas have been responded to, and some have been responded

to incompletely, which evidence will likely also be relied upon by experts. Therefore,

the parties stipulate to and respectfully request that the deadlines set in the scheduling

conference order be extended to the dates outlined below. There have been no prior

periods of extension obtained by the parties as to the particular matters for which this

extension is sought. (L.R. 6-144)

Subject to the Court’s approval, the parties stipulate to a 60-day extension for the

expert discovery deadlines. Therefore, THE PARTIES, THROUGH THEIR

RESPECTIVE COUNSEL, STIPULATE AND AGREE AS FOLLOWS:

Old Date New Date Event

July 1, 2005 September 1, 2005 Expert Disclosure

July 8, 2005 September 8, 2005 Supplemental Expert

Disclosure

July 15, 2005 same Non Expert Discovery Cutoff 

August 16, 2005 October 16, 2005 Expert Discovery Cutoff

August 30, 2005 same Pretrial Motion Filing

Deadline

September 30, 2005 same Pretrial Motion Hearing

Deadline

At the parties request same Settlement Conference

November 2, 2005 same Pretrial Conference

December 6, 2005 same Jury Trial

The parties respectfully request an order changing time, pursuant to the above

schedule, of the case schedule set forth in the Scheduling Conference Order.

Dated: June 28, 2005

 WILSON, ELSER, MOSKOWITZ, EDELMAN & DICKER

LLP

 By: ____________________________

Ralph W. Robinson

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Christine Starkie

Attorneys for Defendants,

COVENANT TRANSPORT, INC. 

and MITCHELL KEVIN LA FLEUR

JONES, CLIFFORD, JOHNSON & JOHNSON LLP

 By: ____________________________

 Steger Johnson

 Attorney for Plaintiffs

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

MICHAEL J. ARPAIA, MYONG HUI

ARPAIA, GEOFFREY S. NICOLLE, and

JULIE DAHL-NICOLLE,

Plaintiffs,

v.

COVENANT TRANSPORTATION, INC., 

MITCHELL KEVIN LA FLEUR and DOES 1

through 100, inclusive,

Defendants.

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Case No.: CIV. F-04-5939 REC LJO

ORDER EXTENDING CASE

SCHEDULE DEADLINES SET FORTH

IN SCHEDULING CONFERNCE

ORDER

PURSUANT TO STIPULATION, IT IS SO ORDERED that the expert discovery

deadlines are extended as follows:

Old Date New Date Event

July 1, 2005 September 1, 2005 Expert Disclosure

July 8, 2005 September 8, 2005 Supplemental Expert

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Disclosure

July 15, 2005 same Non Expert Discovery Cutoff 

August 16, 2005 October 16, 2005 Expert Discovery Cutoff

August 30, 2005 same Pretrial Motion Filing

Deadline

September 30, 2005 same Pretrial Motion Hearing

Deadline

At the parties request same Settlement Conference

November 2, 2005 same Pretrial Conference

December 6, 2005 same Jury Trial

IT IS SO ORDERED.

Dated: July 1, 2005 /s/ Lawrence J. O'Neill 

66h44d UNITED STATES MAGISTRATE JUDGE

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